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Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Exploring the role of manufacturing-as-a-service for improving supply chain resilienceSupply chain resilience (SCR) has been a key focus for researchers and businesses over the past decade. The Covid-19 intensified this attention, highlighting critical issues such as raw material shortages, unpredictable demand shifts, and logistics and supply chain challenges. These disruptions have significantly impacted global supply chains in the last two years. Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) has emerged as a new service-oriented manufacturing paradigm inspired by cloud manufacturing. MaaS has the potential to support companies in increasing their SCR, e.g., by providing access to a wide pool of suppliers. However, literature is scarce in investigating this relationship. This paper aims to fill this gap through 15 expert interviews exploring the link between SCR capabilities and MaaS. Results suggest that MaaS supports supply chain flexibility, velocity, redundancy and visibility. For the experts, MaaS has a detrimental effect on supply chain collaboration, which is considered an antecedent of SCR for literature. Finally, the functionalities needed in a MaaS system to support SCR are discussed.Publicationtype: Journal Article21 14 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) to Increase value chain resilience and circularity: towards a systematic methodology for manufacturing process servitization and value chain orchestration(Elsevier, 2025-07); ; ; In the current dynamic, volatile, and uncertain world, manufacturing companies face increasing pressure to respond efficiently and rapidly to disruptions, while at the same time adopting sustainable and circular practices. This paper focuses on Manufacturing-as-a-Service (MaaS) for enhancing resilience and promoting circularity in manufacturing value chains. Based on the limitations of existing MaaS research and scarcity of implementations, a systematic methodology is proposed for manufacturing process servitization, manufacturing process and product matching, and manufacturing process connection, collaboration and execution. This methodology supports the scaling of MaaS to a large variety of manufacturing processes, enabling dynamic distributed networks of manufacturing resources. Resiliency enhancing processes are outlined using MaaS for creating alternative value chain orchestrations, as responses to disruptions. Moreover, processes promoting circularity in relation to MaaS and resilience are outlined. This act as support for finding appropriate value chains partners to enable a circular product system and in increasing resilience and circularity simultaneously by reusing and remanufacturing critical components.Publicationtype: Journal Article29 28 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Access status: with files , A framework for the alignment of new product development and supply chainsThe purpose of this paper is to develop a framework that explains how new product development and supply chain variables are related to one another and how they affect performance.Publicationtype: Journal ArticleScopus© Citations 124 517 4797