ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how digitization affects the business models and aims to reshape the organization of supply chains. It presents the major milestone and important advancements in the Augmented Reality (AR) technology. The chapter discusses the applications of AR technology in supply chains by providing real-world scenarios. AR is one of the key technologies for Industry 4.0, and the field of computer science that is concerned with merging the real world with the computer-generated data. AR devices digitally process images received from the environment and augment this data by adding supplementary computer-generated graphics. Three key characteristics of an AR system are: it combines real and virtual objects in a real environment, it runs interactively, and in real-time, and it aligns real and virtual objects with each other. AR applications in the logistics sector make it possible to access anticipatory information quickly. AR has been widely utilized by the important aircraft manufacturers in the global market.
