Towards Resilient Digital Supply Chains
摘要
Stationary logistics warehouses and mobile temporary supply points as part of the last military mile form a central component of the supply infrastructure of armed forces in operation. The ongoing RESISTANT (Increased Resilient Military Logistics based on a Fully Digitalized, Distributed and Autonomous Supply Chain is a collaborative project under FFG contract number FO999904051. The project “RESISTANT” is funded/financed within the Austrian defence research programm FORTE of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance and managed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency. - https://www.jku.at/institut-fuer-wirtschaftsinformatik-communications-engineering/forschung/forschungsprojekte/laufende-projekte/resistant/ ) project aims to increase the resilience of this infrastructure and the supply chain in terms of effective provision, transparency, and reliability despite the most difficult conditions. Research is spent on a concept and innovative technologies for decomposing central logistics and storage hubs into smaller units that can be managed independently. Such distributed, small-scale micro-storage facilities have decisive deficiencies, such as increased administrative effort and more difficult monitoring of the stockpile status. These deficiencies can be overcome by shelves and transport containers that form shelf clusters, supported by short-range radio technologies and protocols. In this contribution we introduce the concept how inventory data become available offline at the on-site micro warehouses and can be accessed by the soldiers’ mobile devices. The envisioned solution does not require a central coordination hub, since the underlying logistic process specification enable decentralized control and dynamic adaptation in the field.