Project description
Adapting supply chains for resilience
Supply chain vulnerabilities threaten the very backbone of businesses, leaving companies exposed to disruptions that can have lasting effects. Recognising this pressing issue, the EU-funded RISE-SME project emerges as a beacon of innovation. This initiative seeks to empower small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by developing a robust model capable of detecting and anticipating disruptions in their supply chains. Specifically, project activities encompass mapping existing ecosystems, developing disruption detection methodologies, scouting advanced technologies, and fostering alliances between tech-savvy and traditional SMEs. With a consortium leveraging supply chain expertise and collaborating with key actors, RISE-SME ensures a comprehensive exploration of advanced technologies, from robotics to blockchain, paving the way for adaptable and agile SME supply chains.
Objective
RISE-SME aims at developing a model that can assist companies in detecting and anticipating disruptions in their supply chains. The main outcome of RISE-SME is to build a methodology for different industrial ecosystems, that can identify disruptions and technological opportunities for the uptake of advanced technologies in SMEs, so as to enable flexible, agile and resilient supply chains that can easily be adapted.
In order to do so, the following activities will be deployed:
• Mapping of existing industrial ecosystems and its associated supply chain models, in order to identify critical dependencies and weaknesses in specific industrial ecosystem
• Developing a methodology for detecting and anticipating disruptions with long term effects on the supply chain, to reduce strategic dependencies on critical products, especially on advanced technologies
• Mapping and scouting advanced technologies and their associated solutions from technology suppliers that can help supply chain processes to be less uncertain and complex
• Analysing existing technology gaps in several industrial ecosystems, leading to a matchmaking tool with tech-savvy and traditional SMEs
• Building alliances among traditional and tech-savvy SMEs through cluster organisations and DIHs in the industrial ecosystem, resulting into the launch of a pilot in each one of the ecosystems
The project consortium will leverage their knowledge on supply chain and their reach to key supply chain actors, traditional SMEs and technology suppliers. The involvement of technology partners and entities representing tech-savvy SMEs will ensure a thorough consideration of the following advanced technologies: robotics, AI, IoT, Blockchain, edge computing, AR/VR solutions, B2B digital platforms, Big Data/analytics technology, 3D printing, advanced materials, micro- and nanoelectronics, nanotechnologies and photonics, among others.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencebig data
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencescomputer securitycryptography
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
- engineering and technologynanotechnologynanoelectronics
Keywords
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
50018 Zaragoza
Spain