Value chain-wide resilience, operational agility and hyper-connected, intelligent IT infrastructure are prevalent organizational trends during this mid-pandemic period. They also contributed to the initial disruptions which brought the global supply chain structure to a grinding halt in early 2020. From a strategic standpoint, it has become more evident that there is a race among participants in all global industries to digitalize their entire operations and in some way, shape or incorporate technologies which constitute the Industry 4.0 paradigm.
