Advances in Sustainable Supply Chains

Dear Colleagues,

Supply chain management is an indispensable part of a business’s sustainability program. Knowing the level of environmental, social, and economic impact and viability of suppliers and customers is becoming increasingly common as all industries move towards a more sustainable future. Indeed, companies are striving to operate in a more sustainable manner. In the meantime, sustainability has been one of the key drivers of technological innovation, and much of the increase in business efficiency over recent years has been achieved with the help of advanced technologies such as IoT/RFID, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and so on. While the potential of such technologies is enormous, so are the challenges involved in seamlessly integration across organizations in a sustainable manner.

In this context, this Special Issue on "Advances in Sustainable Supply Chains" aims to incorporate recent innovative methodologies and models for leading and moving toward sustainability in logistics and supply chain management. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sustainable supply chain management with applications
• Robust and resilient supply chain design and operation
• Smart and sustainable manufacturing systems and technologies
• Sustainable production and inventory management
• Sustainable distribution management
• Sustainable logistics networks design
• Green and sustainable logistics and transportation
• Analytical models for sustainable supply chain
• Green and close-loop logistics and supply chain management
• Big data management and IoT for sustainable supply chains
• Sustainable humanitarian logistics and supply chain management

This Special Issue welcomes full research articles, short communications, conceptual papers, literature reviews, and case studies (descriptive papers illustrating a particular practice or a solution to a managerial problem). Papers using analytical methods or mathematical modeling developments are particularly interesting for this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Taesu Cheong
Prof. Dr. Sang Hwa Song
Guest Editors

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