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Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Digital Supply Chains

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 5856

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nagesh Shukla

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School of Information, Systems and Modelling, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: healthcare data analytics; modelling and simulation; supply chain and logistics management
Dr. Andrea Trianni

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Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney, 81-117 Broadway, Ultimo, NSW 2007, Australia
Interests: operations efficiency; industrial energy efficiency; industrial sustainability; industrial eco-efficiency; sustainable supply chain management
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Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Paul

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UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney 2007, Australia
Interests: supply chain risk management; sustainable supply chains; bioeconomy; decision-making; operations research
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increased adoption of digital tools and technologies (blockchain, AI, Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0) by businesses and consumers has streamlined and supported supply chain management decisions at global and local levels. Digital supply chains potentially offer several benefits, including visibility, accuracy, responsiveness, productivity, and security. The COVID-19 pandemic has further fuelled the need and adoption of technologies leveraging digital tools to provide end-to-end visibility, flexibility, responsiveness, and agility. These changes have a direct impact on the sustainability of the supply chains. However, there is scarce literature on the potential applications, as well as limiting factors associated with the adoption of digital technologies and their impact on the sustainability measures (social, economic, and environmental) of the supply chain. This Special Issue will connect the literature on digital supply chains and sustainability, which are largely worked upon in isolation.   

The aim of this Special Issue is to attract well-grounded and applied research papers on sustainability in digital supply chains and networks. The main areas included in this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

  • Best practices, approaches, and strategies for Industry 4.0  for sustainable SCs;
  • Best practices and approaches for using blockchains for sustainable SCs;
  • Studies investigating the sustainability impacts of digital transformation in a SC context;
  • Studies addressing sustainability challenges in SCs using digital tools and technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Use and deployment of blockchains and digitalisation for sustainability in supply chain and logistics management;
  • Applications of digital tools and techniques in last-mile delivery management, etc.;
  • Barriers in the adoption and implementation of digital tools for sustainability in SCs.

Dr. Nagesh Shukla
Dr. Andrea Trianni
Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Paul
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • supply chain
  • digital technologies
  • sustainability
  • Internet of Things
  • Industry 4.0
  • artificial intelligence
  • blockchain
  • social media data for decision making

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Utilizing Fuzzy AHP in the Evaluation of Barriers to Blockchain Implementation in Reverse Logistics
by Muhammad Hamza Naseem, Jiaqi Yang, Tongxia Zhang and Waseem Alam
Sustainability 2023, 15(10), 7961; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15107961 - 12 May 2023
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Digital technologies like blockchain, the Internet of Things, and smart warehouses have been developed due to the fourth industrial revolution, or “Industry 4.0.” Any business’ supply chain includes several stakeholders, including manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and final consumers. The demand for firms to utilize [...] Read more.
Digital technologies like blockchain, the Internet of Things, and smart warehouses have been developed due to the fourth industrial revolution, or “Industry 4.0.” Any business’ supply chain includes several stakeholders, including manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and final consumers. The demand for firms to utilize these technologies to gain competitive advantages has intensified in the modern world due to rising worldwide rivalry. Additionally, the adoption of blockchain technology, in particular, can have a huge impact on a company’s reverse logistics, accelerating processes by decentralizing, tracking, and overseeing the delivery of items to final consumers. The goal of this study is to pinpoint those significant obstacles because several must be overcome for blockchain technology to be successfully implemented in reverse logistics. This study identified 16 impediments to the adoption of blockchain technology after a thorough analysis of the literature and expert opinion. The fuzzy AHP approach was used in this study to rank those barriers as this approach helps to address the complexity and uncertainty associated with decision-making in supply chain management and provides a more robust and reliable ranking of the barriers to blockchain adoption. A case study of Pakistan’s e-commerce industry was carried out. The results show that the high installation cost, stakeholders’ resistance to the blockchain, and the lack of top-management support are the critical success factors in blockchain adoption. From an industrial perspective, the study highlights the need for businesses to carefully evaluate the potential benefits and costs of adopting blockchain technology. It also underscores the importance of addressing the barriers to adoption to ensure successful implementation. By doing so, businesses can enhance their supply chain management and improve their overall competitiveness. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Addressing Sustainability Challenges in Digital Supply Chains)
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Sustainable Strategy Analysis: Platform Channel Configuration and Slotting Fee Design under Differentiated Quality Investment
by Chunyu Li, Peng Xing and Yanting Li
Sustainability 2022, 14(23), 16095; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316095 - 01 Dec 2022
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As a medium for matching supply and demand, platforms are changing industrial structures and consumption patterns to achieve sustainable operations. The platform establishes a self-operated channel on the basis of the present agent channel, which generates new conflicts and pollution problems. Considering the [...] Read more.
As a medium for matching supply and demand, platforms are changing industrial structures and consumption patterns to achieve sustainable operations. The platform establishes a self-operated channel on the basis of the present agent channel, which generates new conflicts and pollution problems. Considering the competition and quality investment, we investigate the platform’s optimal strategies, i.e., pricing, quality investment, channel format and slotting fee contract. The result shows that the platform adopting a dual channel structure contributes to sustainable operations because it can increase selling prices, sales volumes and consumers’ willingness when the channel introduction cost is lower. Meanwhile, the supplier always prefers the dual-channel structure because it can increase sales volume, profits and consumer surplus. Meanwhile, contrary to the commission rate, the emergence of competition promotes quality investment and guarantees consumer satisfaction. Under the intense channel conflicts, a variable slotting fee contract (VFC) is more profitable than a unit fixed slotting fee contract (UFC) owing to alleviating the competition; otherwise, the UFC has a larger improvement effect on profits. Meanwhile, with the increase in consumer quality sensitivity, UFC gradually cannibalizes VFC and occupies the core position in the operation. Full article
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