Managing Global Trade in Industry 4.0: New Issues and Trends

New Technologies which will shape our future have begun to make themselves felt in ali areas of our lives. Taking into consideration the speed, fecundity and the impact area that came along with digitalisation, it can clearly be stated that it is an obliga-tion for the firms to keep up with the changes brought along with the new era. İn this age, in which the circumstances of the information-based societies are continuously proceeding, ali the systems which are information-based will have a splendid power. Ali the concepts in technology we assume to be right are becoming meaningless one by one and a new industrial revolution directed by novelty, innovation and entrepre-neurship is expecting for us. The reflection of this new industrial revolution into our lives will create much more radical changes. Therefore, it is necessary to make use of the digital technologies in a productive and effective manner so as to manage this pro-cess of change successfully and protect the sustainable competitive power.

Technologies of The Fourth İndustrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) such as Big Data, cloud computing, Internet of Things (loT) and blockchain ali serve to create a more flexible supply chain management system for the future by increasing the accuracy of the data and by promoting data sharing. İn different chapters grinded out by dif-ferent academicians from disparate universities, you will find guite comprehensive theoretical and practical information regarding the re-formation of ali fields ranging from the financing of global and domestic trade and business management under the circumstances of Industry 4.0 to marketing and from tourism to human resources.