Digital Technologies for Supply Chain Resilience and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 12731
Special Issue Editors
Interests: operations management; supply chain coordination; logistics
Interests: supply chain uncertainty; supply chain coordination; big data supply chain analysis
Interests: supply chain management; operations management; new technology and innovation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The outbreak of COVID-19 has disrupted supply chain activities across the world. Supply chains are vulnerable today and increasingly rely on technologies. The examples include the recent shortage of semiconductors, lumber, and steel. Sustainability topics, including climate change, the circular economy, carbon neutrality, and energy consumption, have been the top agenda in shareholder meetings as well as important topics for scholars. Digitalization is often targeted at efficiency improvements. Digital technologies have been helping with sustainability goals and with improving supply chain resilience. Adopting digitalization technology results in tangible and intangible benefits across supply chains.
In this Special Issue, we aim to publish state-of-the-art research concerning digital technologies for supply chain resilience and sustainability. The research methodology can be qualitative or quantitative. Thus, research methodologies such as analytical modeling, statistical-based empirical analysis, and case studies are welcomed. We also invite interested authors to contribute technical research and comprehensive review articles to this Special Issue.
Key Words:
- Value of augmented reality on resilient and sustainable operations and supply chains
- Cyberphysical systems with automatic manufacturing in resilient and sustainable operations and supply chains
- Blockchain-enabled operations and supply chain management for resilience and sustainability
- Using information technology and data analytics for managing resilient and sustainable operations and supply chains
- Drone technologies in resilient and sustainable operations and supply chain management
- AI/Machine learning and IoTs for improving resilient and sustainable operations and supply chain efficiency
- Managing resilient and sustainable operations and supply chain with the application of additive manufacturing
- Using advanced technologies to improve social and environmental impacts in sustainable resilient and operations and supply chain management
- Using emerging technologies to manage resilient and sustainable operations and supply chain during the outbreak of COVID-19
Prof. Dr. Tijun Fan
Prof. Dr. Haijun Wang
Dr. Bin Shen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital technologies
- supply chain
- resilience
- sustainability
- augmented reality
- cyber-physical systems
- blockchain-enabled
- information technology
- AI/machine learning
- additive manufacturing
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