Visibility in Production Logistics and Supply Chains
Swedish manufacturing industry is very internationally linked and rarely have visibility in production logistics and supply chains been so in demand as the recent years. The KTH XPRES team have over a number of projects worked with manufacturing companies, technology providers, standardization organizations and various supply chain actors in determining conditions for logistics visibility as well as demonstrating and testing solutions, now being implemented in industry.
Motive and developed solutions
Low awareness of the status of internal and external material flows leads to sensitivity to disruptions, unnecessary investments, incorrectly dimensioned warehouses and excessive use of express transport. Through a set of research projects during 2019 - 2025, the KTH XPRES team on production logistics has together with key stakeholders mapped needs and created solutions for visibility in internal and external logistics, making it possible to see which parts of the whole that are lacking.
The solutions include evaluated connectivity solutions for track and trace in inbound material flows, demonstrated block chain-based architectures for supply chain communication and implemented solutions for real time tracking of goods within manufacturing sites.
Effects and impact
With the support of world-leading companies and research collaboration with Lund University and Chalmers, standardization organizations and technology providers, the developed, demonstrated and implemented solutions provides increased dynamic ability, better risk management and resource efficiency, leading to increased competitiveness and preparedness for future events.
The start-off project LOVIS (Production Logistic Visibility), funded by Vinnova and Produktion2030, was in 2021 selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) as one key Swedish research project with potential to create value (IVA 100-list 2021).
