Proceedings of the international scientific conference TRADE PERSPECTIVES 2021: international trade in a post COVID-19 world http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Key words: COVID-19 pandemic, supply chain management, digital transformation https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:33430 DID COVID-19 ACCELERATED SUPPLY CHAIN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION? info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings eng Abstract: Under the influence of modern technologies in Industry 4.0, supply chains are experiencing a “renaissance” in terms of digitization. Rapid transformation of functions and processes in supply chains has begun quite recently - in the middle of the last decade. Since then, key decision stakeholders within the value chain managed to implement several digital components in order to overcome the complexity in supply chain relations. Sudden disruptions in the global business environment, such as the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic, can be catalysator for or against accelerated supply chain digitization. Considering the conditions of the pandemic, decision makers are standing in front of the strategic dilemma: to preserve money or to continue to invest financial assets in supply chain optimization in order to achieve future cost savings. The analysis starts from a recent historic overview of supply chain digitization, continues with analysis of its speed and structural digitization before pandemic, followed by stakeholder response to the crisis and summarizing the affection for the acceleration of supply chain digitization. The aim of the paper is to show whether pandemic did or did not have any effect on acceleration of supply chain digital transformation. Conclusion will also provide a quick look on future actions which stakeholders need to take in order to retain and/or advance in supply chain digitization application/pdf 1076769 bytes 2021 Aćimović, Slobodan Stajić, Nenad