IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/ids/ijisma/v15y2022i2p121-150.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An exploratory survey on the impacts of Logistics 4.0 on Italian manufacturing companies

Author

Listed:
  • Marco Ardolino
  • Andrea Bacchetti
  • Marco Perona
  • Ting Zheng
  • Federico Adrodegari

Abstract

This article focuses on manufacturing logistics, exploring how Italian companies are approaching Logistics 4.0. The purpose is to evaluate the state of the art of technology adoption, highlighting the main influencing factors, and showing the related benefits and obstacles. An exploratory survey was carried out on 91 Italian manufacturing companies. The significance of the influence of the factors analysed regarding the level of adoption of L4.0 has been demonstrated. The study also included eight interviews with survey respondents undertaken to validate the main insights from the survey results. The overall results indicate that the adoption of Logistics 4.0 is still immature but has huge potential. Moreover, the few companies adopting at least one technology have sought benefits related mainly to warehouse activities and efficiency in process operations. The awareness that L4.0 intends a harmonious and integrated implementation of digital technologies to support logistics processes has not yet become widespread.

Suggested Citation

  • Marco Ardolino & Andrea Bacchetti & Marco Perona & Ting Zheng & Federico Adrodegari, 2022. "An exploratory survey on the impacts of Logistics 4.0 on Italian manufacturing companies," International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 15(2), pages 121-150.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijisma:v:15:y:2022:i:2:p:121-150
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=121909
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ids:ijisma:v:15:y:2022:i:2:p:121-150. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sarah Parker (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=81 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.