Digital value chains
Digitization of value chains creates new opportunities for companies. A digital, open, and standardized information exchange can be used by companies to create added value by optimizing their processes. Such an information flow can, form the basis for planning and managing logistics, to and within a company.
A value chain describes the activities that take place in a company and create value. By value is meant the amount that buyers are willing to pay for the product that the company offers. A value chain in a company can consist of several different units such as production and logistics. In a larger perspective, the value chain can also include, subcontractors and resellers. The units' main purpose is to create customer value and it is required that each unit collaborates and exchanges information with each other for the value chain to function.
The opportunities that digitalisation provides facilitate the work primarily for information exchange and communication. It can be about how to take in customer data, traceability, how to plan your production and manage your business and how to optimize your flows to ultimately increase your competitiveness. With the right information for all actors, there is also potential to increase the sustainability of production.
Digitization of value chains requires standards for information exchange and transparency. Sharing data securely is fundamental in digital value chains, and as more information becomes available, new ideas are also born as to what the data can be used for. The data itself has no value, but how it is visualized and what conclusions are drawn from it is the key to success.
One project that works to promote digital value chains is the “Digitala Stambanan”, which is a national collaboration program.
