Physical Internet Enabled Hyperconnected Circular Supply Chains
Ziqing Wu, Raphaël Oger, Matthieu Lauras, Benoît Montreuil, Louis Faugère · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2023
Physical Internet (PI) and Circular Supply Chains (CSC) are both promising supply chain paradigms aiming toward the significant improvement of sustainability. PI potentially provides a set of solutions for implementing CSC as both emphasize interconnectivity. This Paper presents the Hyperconnected Circular Supply Chain (HCSC) framework, which aims to combine the strengths of both CSC and PI to create a comprehensive set of guidelines for supply chain stakeholders. The proposed HCSC framework encompasses nine core characteristics, addressing aspects such as product design for circularity, on-demand materialization in PI open production fabs, local material and energy recovery, hyperconnected logistics systems for materials and products, sharing economy enablement with PI, circular functionalities exploitation for existing facilities, open and hyperconnected sustainability performance monitoring, and technological and business model innovation.