Impact of Industry 4.0 on Supply Chain Management

With an increasing globalization and cross-border trade the international logistics services started to play one of the key roles in the whole business chain. The Industry 4.0 brings new possibilities for companies to update the supply chain activities by implementing new technologies and systems. The aim of this work is to show the real impact on supply chain activity from implementing the new industrial revolution features, like Internet of things, Cyber-physical system, augmented and virtual reality, autonomous robots and cloud computing. With a help of three companies, Bosch, DHL and PwC the work will analyses the changes in supply chain procedures and various systematic digitalization of activities within the whole industry. Firstly, the theoretical part describes the logistics and supply chain scope of activity and the impact on business of companies among the international trade. Secondly, the Industry 4.0 creation and description will be providing in order to have a better understanding about this revolution. Third, analyzing the three-mentioned companies activity we will focus on real implementation of technological features into the supply chain processes. The analysis is conducted based on secondary data.