Smart Supply Chain Innovation and Management

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing development of globalization and informatization, supply chain management has become an indispensable part of enterprise operations. Especially in the current competitive market environment, it is particularly important to improve production efficiency and competitiveness. As a fusion of management concepts and technologies in the new era, intelligent supply chain management is gradually becoming a key factor for enterprises to achieve efficient, flexible, and sustainable development.

Smart supply chain management takes data as the core and makes full use of advanced information technology to achieve the interconnection of all links in the supply chain. Through the collection, integration, and analysis of data, enterprises can grasp the operation status of the supply chain in real time, including key information such as material procurement, production planning, and logistics distribution. This real-time data feedback mechanism enables enterprises to respond quickly to market changes, adjust production strategies, and improve the flexibility of production and manufacturing.

Looking to the future, with the further development of technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, and artificial intelligence, smart supply chain management will play a more important role in enterprise operations. It will further encourage enterprises to achieve supply chain optimization and innovation, improve the efficiency and quality of production and manufacturing, and lay a solid foundation for the sustainable development of enterprises. In this context, this Special Issue of "Smart Supply Chain Innovation and Management" welcomes research papers on current and smart supply chain management innovations to achieve smart management models, addressing one or more of the following research topics:

• Research on smart supply chain management under the background of enabling new high-quality productivity;
• Smart green supply chain management and sustainable development;
• Research on big data and supply chain collaboration models;
• Supply chain schedule planning problems for collaborative development of complex products;
• Research on improving the resilience of the industrial chain and supply chain enabled by new high-quality productivity;
• Research on the impact of "big data analysis + artificial intelligence" on digital supply chain transformation;
• Research on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and supply chain innovation;
• Research on the application and role of digital technology in smart logistics and the supply chain;
• Research on the intelligent logistics supply chain management model under the Internet of Things;
• Research on the application of new technologies such as digitalization and ChatGPT in intelligent supply chains.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Yong Liu
Prof. Dr. Jinshi Cheng
Guest Editors

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• digital supply chain
• supply chain collaboration
• low-carbon supply chain and green development
• supply chain resilience
• artificial intelligence and supply chain