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Opportunities for a Digital Transformation of the Global Supply Chains: Case Study of the Suez Canal Blockade

Supply chains (SC) are the heart of global trade. Shortening the routing distance, lower transport and distribution costs, the global connection between countries and partners, as well as worldwide customer supply, are just a few of the major advantages of the global supply chains. However, like every other global process, supply chains also face obstacles in their continuity. One of the recent, bigger disruptions (DISR) happened when the Ever Given container vessel got stranded in the Suez Canal causing a global blockade of the customer supply. A question arises if such an incident would have been prevented if there was less impact of a human hand and greater use of digital technology in the supply process itself. This paper aims to show how the usage of digital technologies can improve the quality and continuity of the supply chains, prevent disruptions such as the Suez Canal blockade and prove that digital transformation is the future of a high-quality distribution process.

supply chains ; Suez Canal blockade ; digital transformation ; digital technologies

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