Project Purpose

Starting from the reality of the ceramic supply chain, VOLT intends to propose and test an operational solution to mitigate the effects of critical issues due to unplanned and unprecedented changes, such as the pandemic, by implementing several actions: 

• harnessing the new propensity for collaboration among supply chain actors; 

• shift the production and organizational focus from efficiency to effectiveness; 

• exploiting the opportunities offered by digital technologies as drivers of effectiveness; 

• increase system resilience by introducing rings of agility at each node of the supply chain; 

• transform the supply chain from a sequential chain to a smart network; 

• adopt the circular economy paradigm as a model for creating, intercepting and maintaining value along the supply chain. 

The Circular and Intelligent Supply Chain will be created by experimenting for the first time with the use of a digital twin outside the factory gates to include supply chain actors.