Additive manufacturing for consumer-centric business models: implications for supply chains in consumer goods manufacturing

TY - JOUR

T1 - Additive manufacturing for consumer-centric business models

T2 - implications for supply chains in consumer goods manufacturing

AU - Bogers, Marcel

AU - Hadar, Ronen

AU - Bilberg, Arne

PY - 2016/1/1

Y1 - 2016/1/1

N2 - Digital fabrication—including additive manufacturing (AM), rapid prototyping and 3D printing—has the potential to revolutionize the way in which products are produced and delivered to the customer. Therefore, it challenges companies to reinvent their business model—describing the logic of creating and capturing value. In this paper, we explore the implications that AM technologies have for manufacturing systems in the new business models that they enable. In particular, we consider how a consumer goods manufacturer can organize the operations of a more open business model when moving from a manufacturer-centric to a consumer-centric value logic. A major shift includes a move from centralized to decentralized supply chains, where consumer goods manufacturers can implement a “hybrid” approach with a focus on localization and accessibility or develop a fully personalized model where the consumer effectively takes over the productive activities of the manufacturer. We discuss some of the main implications for research and practice of consumer-centric business models and the changing decoupling point in consumer goods' manufacturing supply chains.

AB - Digital fabrication—including additive manufacturing (AM), rapid prototyping and 3D printing—has the potential to revolutionize the way in which products are produced and delivered to the customer. Therefore, it challenges companies to reinvent their business model—describing the logic of creating and capturing value. In this paper, we explore the implications that AM technologies have for manufacturing systems in the new business models that they enable. In particular, we consider how a consumer goods manufacturer can organize the operations of a more open business model when moving from a manufacturer-centric to a consumer-centric value logic. A major shift includes a move from centralized to decentralized supply chains, where consumer goods manufacturers can implement a “hybrid” approach with a focus on localization and accessibility or develop a fully personalized model where the consumer effectively takes over the productive activities of the manufacturer. We discuss some of the main implications for research and practice of consumer-centric business models and the changing decoupling point in consumer goods' manufacturing supply chains.

U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.07.024

DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2015.07.024

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0040-1625

VL - 102

SP - 225

EP - 239

JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change

JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change

ER -