Digital Transition Methodology of a Warehouse in the Concept of Sustainable Development with an Industrial Case Study

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

- what is the relevance of the UN SDGs?

- references are listed but not well discussed in the introduction section. 

- what are the emerging technologies to support future or industry 4.0 warehouses? 

- which particular industry is the author investigating? 

- what are the human factors in designing future warehouses? suggest adding references:

1) Desmet, P., & Fokkinga, S. (2020). Beyond Maslow’s pyramid: introducing a typology of thirteen fundamental needs for human-centered design. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, 4(3), 38.

2) Liu, W. (2022). Designing generation Y interactions: The case of YPhone. Virtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware, 4(2), 132-152.

3) Foshay, N., Mukherjee, A., & Taylor, A. (2007). Does data warehouse end-user metadata add value? Communications of the ACM, 50(11), 70-77.

- table 3 is way too big. try to describe the information by using text. 

- line 180, how did researchers define the 4 levels? 

- line 416, what are the implications of the evaluation? how can other researchers borrow your ideas and experiences? 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Interesting paper with a relevant case study, esp. since warehouse case studys, logistics 4.0, and sustainability are rarely matched in this way.

Please consider the following comments and recommendations for improvement:

* The paper includes mainly French references. Please refer to more English references and reduce the French ones. To the reader, French references give little to no added value if they won't go deeper on the topic.

* The sustainability aspect is present in the paper. However, it is coming to short. The author talks about economic, social, and environmental sustainability / CSR. More tangible results for the environmental sustainability would be advisable.

* Some minor spelling errors, potential punctuation improvement are still present

* The targeted research question is unclear. It would be great to see what the goal of the author is. Also, the chapter on methodology should more clearly on the research methodology applied.

* Intent / message of Figure 6 is unclear.

* Figure is on the small side and can be hard to read.

Author Response

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