Special Issue "Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics Management in a Digital Age"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 August 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Guo Li
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School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: operations management; green supply chain and logistics management; big-data-driven decision management
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Prof. Dr. Sachin Mangla
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Plymouth Business School, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Interests: green/sustainable supply chain management; circular economy; operations management and excellence; sustainable cities and society; optimization and simulation
Prof. Dr. Jiasen Sun
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School of Business, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China
Interests: green supply chain and logistics management; data-driven decision management; efficiency and productivity analysis
Dr. Huamin Wu
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Assistant Guest Editor
School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China
Interests: sustainable supply chain management; operations management
Prof. Xiaohang Yue
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Assistant Guest Editor
Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
Interests: supply chain management; manufacturing system design; business analytics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasingly serious contradictions of environmental pollution, resource shortage, and economic development, the implementation of a sustainable development model has become a global consensus. With advance of information and digital technologies, the sustainable supply chain and logistics management are useful for industries not only to address operational and logistics issues, but also to integrate environmental and social sustainable development issues.

In view of the importance of the sustainable supply chain and logistics management in promoting the low-carbon economy and sustainable social development, different countries have formulated relevant policies, such as low-carbon subsidy policies, use of renewable energy resources, circular economy initiatives, and carbon tax regulations. The sustainable supply chain and logistics management have also attracted the attention of a large number of scholars in the past decade, and the related studies mainly focus on performance evaluation of sustainable and green supply chains, supplier evaluations, and supply chain decision making and optimization model without considering the role of digital technologies sufficiently.

In the current digital age, there are still many issues in the field of sustainable supply chain and logistics management that need to be explored in depth. For example, new emerging technologies (e.g., big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things, sensors, and blockchain technology) have been applied to supply chain and logistics management recently. This makes practitioners and scholars need to consider a series of issues emerging through the use of new technologies to the sustainable supply chain and logistics.

The specific research questions addressed by this Special Issue call are as follows: (1) Will the new technology help toward the adoption of the sustainable supply chain? (2) How can we select the most suitable sustainable and green logistics suppliers/vendors and partners? (3) How can we measure the innovation level of sustainable supply chain and logistics? (4) How can we improve the performance of the sustainable supply chain and logistics management in the digital age? (5) How can we assess the technological level of sustainable supply chain and logistics?

Following the high standards of the Sustainability journal, the purpose of this Special Issue is to seek original and high-quality manuscripts that have not been published and are not under review at other journals or peer-reviewed conferences. We welcome analytical, quantitative empirical, and multi-methodological original research addressing Sustainable Supply Chain and Logistics Management in a Digital Age.  

Other topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Drivers and barriers to sustainable green supply chain and logistics management in the digital age;
  • Sustainable green supply chain and logistics management incentives and pricing models;
  • The influence path of sustainable and green supply chain management on enterprise performance;
  • Technological innovations on sustainable green supply chain and logistics;
  • The impact of emerging technologies on sustainable green supply chains;
  • Decisions and optimization model of sustainable green supply chain management;
  • Performance improvement of sustainable green supply chain and logistics management in the digital age;
  • Measurement of the technological level of green supply chains and logistics;
  • Selection of sustainable logistics suppliers in the digital age;
  • Role of different stakeholders in sustainable supply chain and logistics management;
  • Sustainable land use and energy efficiency in the digital age;
  • Sustainable government in finance and environmental protection in developing countries;
  • Logistics efficiency and low carbon development in the digital age.

Prof. Dr. Guo Li
Guest Editor

Prof. Dr. Sachin Kumar Mangla
Prof. Dr. Jiasen Sun
Dr. Huamin Wu
Prof. Dr. Xiaohang Yue
Assistant Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Sustainable green supply chain
  • Performance
  • measurement
  • Barriers and drivers
  • Digital age
  • Incentives
  • Enterprise performance
  • Technological innovations
  • Partnership
  • Optimization model
  • Technological level

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Sustainable Performance Analysis of Power Supply Chain System from the Perspective of Technology and Management
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 5972; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13115972 - 26 May 2021
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The power industry is an important strategic industry that has effectively advanced the rapid development of China’s economy. However, this rapid development has created significant environmental problems and does not support the sustainable development of the ecological environment and economy. This study evaluated [...] Read more.
The power industry is an important strategic industry that has effectively advanced the rapid development of China’s economy. However, this rapid development has created significant environmental problems and does not support the sustainable development of the ecological environment and economy. This study evaluated and analyzed the sustainable performance of China’s inter-provincial power supply chain systems (PSCSs), and developed policy recommendations for further developing China’s power industry based on the research results. For PSCSs with internal subsystems, this study first developed a non-radial two-stage model, and proposed steps to solve the model; then, this study applied the proposed model to empirically analyze China’s inter-provincial PSCSs. The empirical analysis yielded the following key research findings. Firstly, for the study period, China’s power industry had a low overall performance, and PSCS performance varied significantly across different regions. Secondly, the average meta-frontier efficiency (ME) of PSCSs in high-income regions was the highest; the average ME of PSCSs in middle-income regions was the lowest. This is consistent with the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis. Thirdly, this study found that the PSCSs had effective management and technical systems in Qinghai and Guangdong. The PSCSs in other regions need improvements to mitigate either inadequate management, inadequate technology, or both. Full article
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Analyzing Barriers of Circular Food Supply Chains and Proposing Industry 4.0 Solutions
Sustainability 2021, 13(12), 6812; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13126812 - 16 Jun 2021
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The concept of the circular economy (CE) has gained importance worldwide recently since it offers a wider perspective in terms of promoting sustainable production and consumption with limited resources. However, few studies have investigated the barriers to CE in circular food supply chains. [...] Read more.
The concept of the circular economy (CE) has gained importance worldwide recently since it offers a wider perspective in terms of promoting sustainable production and consumption with limited resources. However, few studies have investigated the barriers to CE in circular food supply chains. Accordingly, this paper presents a systematic literature review of 136 papers from 2010 to 2020 from WOS and Scopus databases regarding these barriers to understand CE implementation in food supply chains. The barriers are classified under seven categories: “cultural”, “business and business finance”, “regulatory and governmental”, “technological”, “managerial”, “supply-chain management”, “knowledge and skills”. The findings show the need to identify barriers preventing the transition to CE. The findings also indicate that these challenges to CE can be overcome through Industry 4.0, which includes a variety of technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud technologies, machine learning, and blockchain. Specifically, machine learning can offer support by making workflows more efficient through the forecasting and analytical capabilities of food supply chains. Blockchain and big data analytics can provide the necessary support to establish legal systems and improve environmental regulations since transparency is a crucial issue for taxation and incentives systems. Thus, CE can be promoted via adequate laws, policies, and innovative technologies. Full article
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