Achieving Digital Supply Chain with Adopting Metaverse

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Metaverse has a wide range of application scenarios in the social and economic fields and has played an important role in promoting the innovation of human thoughts and ideas. Metaverse has brought about reconsideration and transformation in production, entertainment, and sup- ply chains. In this paper, first, the origin of the metaverse and its related technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cloud computing, IoT, Human Computer Interaction and Digital twins are discussed, especially in relationship to blockchain technology and NFTs. In addition, this paper analyzes the potential application of the metaverse in the supply chain and proposes a conceptual framework for a supply chain digital ecosystem with the metaverse. Finally, the case of building a metaverse in the Japanese automotive industry is demonstrated. Furthermore, through analysis of the connotations of the metaverse, this paper proposes that the metaverse is not equal to the virtual world, nor is it another form of existence parallel to the real world, but a form of interac- tion and integration of the real world and the virtual world, which is the living and working environment of human beings in the future.