Dear Colleagues,

To date, market competition has gradually risen from enterprise level to supply chain level, which drives companies to take supply chain management (SCM) measures to respond to the highly complex external environment. Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) has been proposed as a novel concept and has also gradually attracted scholars’ attention. In recent years, the emergence of new technologies and new models has profoundly affected the methods of supply chain and logistics management of enterprises, leading to changes in the ways in which one can achieve sustainable performance.

New technologies, such as cloud computing, big data, blockchain, artificial intelligence and so on, innovate the operation mode of sustainable supply chain and logistics, including user portraits, cloud warehouses, just-in-time distribution, real-time vehicle routing optimization, etc., so that enterprises can implement supply chain and logistics management practices in a way that they have never done before.

Hence, this Special Issue seeks to collect research on the influences of such developments on sustainable innovation regarding operations in supply chain and logistics management practices that encompass inventory management, vehicle routing problems, supplier selection, process improvements, supply chain coordination, management decisions and influence mechanisms.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• The impact of IT development on sustainable supply chain and logistics;
• Mathematical models for sustainable supply chain management;
• Advances in sustainable supply chain and logistics;
• Digitalization in sustainable supply chain management and logistics;
• Sustainable supply chain design, optimization and data-driven modeling;
• Artificial intelligence in sustainable supply chain management ;
• Designing and coordinating operations in sustainable supply chains.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Sen Liu
Prof. Dr. Andrea Appolloni
Dr. Ling Liu
Guest Editors

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• sustainable operations management
• supply chain management
• logistics management
• industry 4.0
• planning and scheduling
• influence mechanism
• supply chain digitalization