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The first-of-a-kind nature means supply chain complexity, too.
When applied effectively, AI, combined with techniques like machine learning, robotics, and advanced analytics, can cut supply chain complexity and accelerate responsiveness.
But supply chain complexity and modest financial investment should not excuse companies from failing in their responsibility to ensure their supply chains are free from slavery and environmentally damaging practices.
(Some companies even have mobile additive factories printers in a truck that can quickly move to a customer in need). Because additive makes your factories and your suppliers' more flexible, it generally works to reduce supply chain complexity.
This paper puts forth a model of supply chain complexity and empirically tests it using plant-level data from 209 plants across seven countries.
In addition to providing a definition and empirical test of supply chain complexity, the study serves to link the systems complexity literature to the prescriptions found in the flexibility and lean production literatures.
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Then, there are supply chain complexities: Vertically integrated retailers need to build a strong network of manufacturing partners and effectively manage these partners.
However, due in part to limited regulations on animal welfare and food-down supply chain complexities, the industry struggled to find a way to source responsible materials at scale.
The shift by manufacturers toward outsourcing to multiple partners increases supply-chain complexity and drives the need for real-time collaboration with business partners.
Through providing low-volume and tailor-made products on-site, technology like 3DP would also help reduce material-supply risks, supply chain network complexity and inventory costs (Laplume et al. 2016).
This problem is made difficult by the complexity of supply chain networks coupled with the complexity of individual manufacturing systems within supply chains.
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