Companies have in the past lost billions of dollars to counterfeiting, and the trend remains the same even with technologies that promise to solve this problem year in year out. According to a 2018 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, approximately 2 trillion dollars worth of counterfeit goods will be sold globally this year. To many manufacturers, governments, and consumers, this spells doom because they will have to deal with counterfeiting and products, most of that they do not know where they originate from. 

3D printing has its place in the supply chain, reports Supply Chain Dive. It can be used for product prototyping, tooling to deliverables.

According to IT Web, adding mobile technology to your existing supply chain can help streamline your warehouse operations. Workers can easily communicate with each other using text messaging.