Gestión de la cadena de suministro (SCM): un nuevo método para la transformación digital de pequeñas y medianas empresas (PYMEs)

Abstract

The digital era and the globalization present several opportunities and challenges for the manufacturing industry: digitalization is changing the business structures in profound ways, product development and manufacturing cycles are constantly decreasing, actual innovations are deep technological disruptions that change the world as we know it. Big manufacturing companies have been investing billions of dollars to transform old productions into digitalized and automated shop floors. On the other hand, SMEs often do not have the resources to look into the eyes of every single technological disruption, but they must regardless be flexible and able to quickly adapt to new technologies. In order to take advantage of the opportunities presented in the digital era, SMEs need to step up their development of new strategies and organizational structures. The transformation could be difficult and pricey if it is done as a single solution for every SME. Therefore, a new approach for the digital transformation of SMEs based on a new SCM’s software solution and organization is proposed.