Business Process Improvement for Sustainable Supply Chain

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) is defined as "the strategic, transparent integration and achievement of an organization's social, environmental, and economic goals in the systemic coordination of key inter-organizational business processes for improving the long-term economic performance of the individual company and its supply chains." (Carter and Rogers, 2008). Indeed, digital transformation technologies and solutions have been identified in the literature as drivers for companies to achieve SSCM (Teuteberg and Wittstruck, 2010; Junge and Straube, 2020; de Camargo Fiorini and Jabbour, 2017; Thöni and Tjoa, 2017). The usage of digital technologies has led to business process improvement within and between companies. Indeed, digital technologies permit the execution of the business processes for the supply chain effectively and efficiently and help with decision-making. In addition, it can enable new business opportunities by using the data footprint generated by digital technologies. Due to the increase in volume and complexity that businesses face in today's environment and during the COVID pandemic, companies seek to design new digital solutions for improving business processes from all stages of the supply chain to the whole supply chain. This Special Issue encourages submissions that address the design of digital solutions and data usage to improve the  in the supply chain's business processes to achieve the SSCM.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Challenges of supply chain sustainability in data-driven models.
• Innovations in the supply chains to boost sustainability in a data-driven environment.
• Social–technical aspects of the sustainable supply chain.
• Conceptual model for the sustainable supply chain.
• Business process management for the sustainable supply chain.
• Software and systems development for the sustainable supply chain.
• Digital technologies to support sustainable supply chains in developing countries.
• Digital technologies to enable collaboration.
• Digital tech to enable sustainable decision-making.
• Agility in the sustainable supply chain.

Prof. Dr. Samedi Heng
Prof. Dr. Sabine Limbourg
Guest Editors

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