How Supply Chain Analytics Enhance Supply Chain Innovation, Risk Management, and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Supply Chain Ecosystem has six dimensions which include logistics, finance, sales and operation planning, employee resource, manufacturing, and smart tech. With the growth of the modern pandemic and military conflicts, supply chains have encountered great challenges to move goods in the traditional door-to-door model. Retailers have to decide the store locations to meet online shopping needs. Suppliers need to negotiate with their buyers to meet their demands. Transportation service providers have to reroute their vehicles or to manage their supply chain sophisticatedly to distribute their cargoes in a volatile and uncertain environment. Finding a way industry can sustain and overcome these logistical uncertainties and volatilities in a systematic approach to avoid supply chain disruption is highly desired. Previous research focused on analyzing supply chain management strategies, practices, and collaboration without the outbreak of any major sanitary and military disruptions. This issue intends to be an advancement of the previous logistics sustainability literature (e.g., He et al., 2018) after the outbreak of a major pandemic and military conflict in the post-World War 2 era.

Sustainability of supply chains can be achieved through the continuous improvement of the chain stakeholders’ economic, social, and environmental performance. The focus of this Special Issue is to discuss how to increase supply chain sustainability in an analytical way via adequate innovations and appropriate risk management. The scope of this issue includes any scientific research investigating the economic, social, and environmental sustainability of all stakeholders in the supply chain industry, including but not limited to information providers, transportation, warehousing, retailing, and distribution operators. The purpose of this issue is to provide a universal platform to encourage logistics researchers and practitioners to contribute their logistics sustainability knowledge by demonstrating their insightful and empirical logistics research findings.

Dr. Taih-Cherng Lirn
Dr. Paulina Golinska-Dawson
Dr. Rhaptyalyani Herno Della
Guest Editors

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• logistics analytics
• innovation
• risk management
• sustainability