## 2 Literature Review  
The digitalization of processes in production companies is a trend that is increasingly being implemented in business practice and, consequently, is increasingly being analyzed in terms of scientific research. The digitalization of processes in a production company, in fact, offers a wide scope for implementation, as it can concern not only the production process, but also the processes of material sourcing and distribution of final products, along with the accompanying supporting processes--transport and warehousing. The application of innovative solutions in production companies is widely discussed in the scientific literature. The number of publications on specific innovative solutions is almost impossible to present in a literature review. However, it is worth noting the basic scopes of analysis carried out on the use of innovative solutions in production companies [7]:  
* Publications include both strictly theoretical aspects in the form of literature reviews [8; 9; 10; 11], conceptual process modeling [12; 13], the possibility of simulating their potential use [14], as well as analyses of practical applications in various business sectors [15; 16; 17];
* From another perspective, the analyses conducted on the application of innovative solutions concern the scope of information systems [18; 19] and digitalization [18; 20], but also ecological aspects [21; 22]. Various scopes of digitalization in production companies can be found in the scientific literature. Based on the science database ScienceDirect.com, an analysis was carried out on the degree of research interest in \"digital production\". The research covers papers classified as review articles and research articles, published between 2018 and 2022. Detailed data are presented in Table 1.  
The digitalization of production processes is becoming more and more of a target of ongoing research, both in the literature and in research and development, regardless of the scope of the research. Both the trend and the number of publications in the field of production digitization demonstrate the topicality of the problem in terms of research and practice. The literature analysis indicates a focus of the research mainly on the presentation of the potential for technological solutions to be implemented [23; 24], the analysis of implementation trends at the strategic level [25; 26], or the application of particular solutions to dedicated business processes [27; 28] with specific characteristics that are difficult to generalize to the entire supply chain. The barriers and challenges [29; 30] presented in the literature focus on the potential benefits of possible implementations, which is mainly due to the lack of awareness of the real business benefits of implementing supply chain digitalization solutions. It is difficult to find publications in the scientific literature that analyze the impact of the implementation of digitization on the growth of processes in companies. Innovation solutions in companies are numerous, as also evidenced by the above systematic literature review. The multiplicity of solutions makes it impossible to reliably survey all of them in terms of research interest. For this reason, it was decided to focus on solutions and trends that were shown in the DHL Trend Radar 2020 and PWC Logistics Trend Book 2019 as solutions and trends that could be implemented within a maximum of 5 years. The authors are aware that more recent editions of both reports are available; nevertheless, at the time the research work was initiated, the indicated reports were the most up-to-date and were the basis for the analytical scope of the research. DHL Trend Radar identified the following innovations as technological trends that could be practically implemented within a maximum of 5 years:  
* Blockchain DLT solutions,
* Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS),
* Robotic Processes Automation (RPA),
* IoT,
* Big Data Analytics,
* Cloud and APIs.