Table 10.
Maturity levels for AM knowledge use on supply chains.
| Business Model | Maturity level |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1: Emerging | 2: Pacing | 3: Hybrid | 4: Partial replacement of CM | 5: Disruptive | |
| Supply chain management | Possible replacement of suppliers. Centralized manufacturing instead of global procurement [11,13,63] |
OEMs are able to produce parts replacing part of the SC | OEMs are able to produce parts/components without procuring suppliers [66] | ||
| Shorter SCs (shorter lead-times) [11] | |||||
| Retail | Production of final customized products directly in stores/retail [66] | ||||