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Strategic Choices of Digital Apparel Supply Chains to Achieve Competitive Advantage: A Literature Review

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  • Susitha, Emmanuel

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The apparel industry is undoubtedly a sizeable global industry with a vast history and contributions to the worldwide economy. The entire supply chain is spread across various locations around the globe. Like any other industry apparel supply chain also has its limitations and challenges to be competitive. At the same time, digital technologies have evolved in a rapid phase in the past couple of decades, enabling the fourth industrial revolution. Industry 4.0 technologies have disrupted many industries and supply chains and help to gain unique capabilities to become competitive over the rivals. Undoubtedly these intelligent technologies can transform the apparel supply chain and gain a competitive advantage. This paper investigates the impact of smart digital technologies on the apparel supply chain to gain a competitive advantage through a thorough literature review. The article discusses the evolution and future trends of intelligent technologies and apparel supply networks, technological impacts on supply chains and links them to the competitive advantage of the apparel supply chain. Also, this paper proposes a conceptual framework for digital apparel supply chain and competitive advantage and open up avenues to researchers to carry out future research on this subject.

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  • Susitha, Emmanuel, 2022. "Strategic Choices of Digital Apparel Supply Chains to Achieve Competitive Advantage: A Literature Review," OSF Preprints j2adw_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:j2adw_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/j2adw_v1
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