Supply Chain Sustainability through Industry 4.0
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2019) | Viewed by 477
Special Issue Editors
Interests: supply chain sustainability; supply chain risk management; Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0; citation network analysis; logistics networks design and management
Interests: design, planning, and management of supply chain networks with risk and sustainability considerations; Industry 4.0 and Logistics 4.0; healthcare logistics; interface between product design and the supply chain
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The exponentially increasing connectivity among people and objects around the world is fundamentally transforming supply chains, and we can expect this transformation to accelerate thanks to the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, known as Industry 4.0.
Industry 4.0 revolves around the concept of cyberphysical systems, which represent the link of real objects with virtual objects via information networks to bring together digital, physical, and biological systems. Cyberphysical systems communicate and co-operate with each other and with humans in real time via the Internet and make decentralized decisions.
The application of the concept of the fourth industrial revolution to supply chain operations has been named “Supply Chain 4.0”. Supply chains become smarter, more efficient, safer, and more sustainable. This is leading to new supply chain models, which change the traditional approaches to efficiency and effectiveness in supply chain management. In fact, these models, based on cyberphysical systems, generate new opportunities to improve the level of sustainability of supply chains, according to the triple bottom line (environmental, economic, and social sustainability).
In this background, which depicts a tumultuous development of technology and related applications, previous studies have shown that limited research in the area of managing supply chain sustainability through Industry 4.0 exists.
Thus, it is essential that research produce investigations able to shed light on how this “Industry 4.0” revolution is approached by businesses and how organizations can seize emerging opportunities for better supply chain sustainability.
Therefore, this Special Issue invites theoretical and empirical scientific contributions that explore ways in which an “Industry 4.0” approach can improve the level of sustainability in supply chains.
Themes relevant to this Special Issue include but are not limited to:
- Sustainable supply chain management;
- Industry 4.0 and smart supply chains;
- Industry 4.0 and smart logistics;
- Digital supply chain management;
- Supply chain resilience;
- Social sustainability;
- Environmental sustainability and the circular economy;
- Cyberphysical systems and supply chains;
- Internet-of-things in supply chains and logistics;
- Smart factories in sustainable supply chains;
- New supply chain models.
Dr. Claudia Colicchia
Dr. Alessandro Creazza
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Industry 4.0 for supply chain management
- Smart supply chains
- Cyberphysical systems
- Supply chain sustainability
- Environmental sustainability
- Economic sustainability
- Social sustainability.
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