3D printing technology is generating severe disruptions in global supply chains. This technology undermines the sense of longdistance transport, decentralizes production sites, approaches demand, personalizes it, influences the needs of last-mile transport, changes the requirements established in th...
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| Summary: | 3D printing technology is generating severe disruptions in global supply chains. This technology undermines the sense of longdistance transport, decentralizes production sites, approaches demand, personalizes it, influences the needs of last-mile transport, changes the requirements established in the logistics service of the future. Directly affecting the traditional logistics between suppliers and retailers, since the processes will be executed in a single installation, and the orders will arrive directly from the factory to the consumer. It will potentially reduce storage, shipping -distribution-, and increase mass product customization; the old large-scale production and the labor sector will face a strong impact due to the control in the consumption of raw materials, absence of assembly lines and optimization of inventory management; manufacturing an item will be more in the hands of consumers, which means that the supply chain will be customized. 3D printing is a disruptive technology that will radically change the structures of global supply chains as we know them today. |
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