...Himali Patil; Suman Niranjan; Gopalakrishnan Narayanamurthy; Arunachalam Narayanan Purpose The purpose of this research is to investigate the contingent adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) and propose a typology to evaluate its adoption viability within a firm's supply chain. Design...

...Jan Sher Akmal; Mika Salmi; Roy Björkstrand; Jouni Partanen; Jan Holmström Purpose Introducing additive manufacturing (AM) in a multinational corporation with a global spare parts operation requires tools for a dynamic supplier selection, considering both cost and delivery performance...

...Anne Friedrich; Anne Lange; Ralf Elbert Purpose This study extends and refines the current knowledge on emerging supply chain designs (SCDs) for industrial additive manufacturing (AM) and manufacturing firms' rationales in selecting them. Design/methodology/approach Following an exploratory...

... a discrepant industrial case that demonstrates how to achieve economies of scale with additive manufacturing (AM), thereby expanding the scope of AM beyond high-variety, customised production contexts. Abductive reasoning is applied to analyse a case of using AM to compete with conventional production...

...Marlene M. Hohn; Christian F. Durach Purpose Focusing on the apparel industry, this study extends current knowledge on how additive manufacturing (AM) may impact global supply chains regarding structures of interorganizational governance and the industry's social-sustainability issues. Design...

... incurs additional operational costs such as tooling and variety-related inventory holding costs (Kovach et al., 2015). However, as there are no tooling requirements nor minimum batch size pressure in the one-step additive manufacturing process, diversified product design can be achieved without...

...Daniel R. Eyers; Andrew T. Potter; Jonathan Gosling; Mohamed M. Naim Purpose Flexibility is a fundamental performance objective for manufacturing operations, allowing them to respond to changing requirements in uncertain and competitive global markets. Additive manufacturing machines are often...