Supply Chains in the Era of Digital Twins – A Review
Hendrik van der Valk, Gero Strobel, Stephanie Winkelmann, Joachim Hunker, Martin Tomczyk
Abstract
Digital Supply Chains are objects of intensive interest from research and practice, as Digital Supply Chains and especially Supply Chain Management promise a wide variety of optimizing potentials. A solution for better visualization and understanding of Supply Chains and an opportunity for further analysis, simulation, and optimization provides the Digital Twin. Hence, researchers put a sizeable research effort into the topic of Digital Twins in the Supply Chain. However, the focus is often blurry, which leads to an unorganized research environment. Against this background, this paper provides a review of research works on Digital Twins in Supply Chains. It aims at answering detailed questions on use cases, purposes, and the level of technological readiness of Digital Twins in Supply Chains.