Maximising co-creation strategy through integration of distinctive capabilities and customer experiences in supply chain management

This paper makes an assessment on the impact of co-creation strategy as part of digital transformation in Industry 4.0 on supply chain management.We argue that the concept of strategy has shifted from the competitive strategy into co-creation strategy based on collaboration value.In developing co-creation strategy, the input is derived from external factors associated with customer experience and internal factors related to distinctive capabilities and both focus on core competence development in supply chain management.We use telecommunication firms as our unit analysis with sample of 35 Indonesian Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) firms analysed using Partial Least Square (PLS).The findings show that the developing of co-creation strategy was supported by distinctive capabilities and customer experience.The findings also indicate that co-creation strategy emerges as a key in sustaining business of the firms to focus on developing customer experience and providing distinctive capabilities..