IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wsi/apjorx/v39y2022i01ns0217595920400217.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Operational Research for Technology-Driven Supply Chains in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Development and Future Studies

Author

Listed:
  • Suyuan Luo

    (College of Economics and College of Management, Shenzhen University, 3688 Nanhai Avenue, Nanshan District, Shenzhen 518006, P. R. China)

  • Tsan-Ming Choi

    (Business Division, Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong)

Abstract

Today, supply chain operations have entered the Industry 4.0 era. Technologies, such as blockchain, big-data, artificial intelligence, additive manufacturing and cloud-computing, are all hot topics. Motivated by their importance, in this paper, we conduct a review of the closely related literature in the well-established mainstream operational research (OR) journals. From our research, we first examine the OR literature on Industry 4.0 related studies. Then we classify the technology-operations-related literature into three major categories, namely, information technologies for supply chain operations, technologies for sustainable operations, and technologies for production operations. Various less popular areas on technology-driven operations in supply chains, namely, technology licensing and outsourcing (TLO), online data, and risk, finance and security (RFS), are also examined. From the reviews, we identify the major research gaps. After that, we establish a future research agenda. We believed that this paper lays the foundation for further OR studies on technology-driven supply chain management in the Industry 4.0Â era.

Suggested Citation

  • Suyuan Luo & Tsan-Ming Choi, 2022. "Operational Research for Technology-Driven Supply Chains in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Development and Future Studies," Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 39(01), pages 1-24, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:apjorx:v:39:y:2022:i:01:n:s0217595920400217
    DOI: 10.1142/S0217595920400217
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0217595920400217
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1142/S0217595920400217?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Xu, Xiaoyan & Chung, Sai-Ho & Lo, Chris K.Y. & Yeung, Andy C.L., 2022. "Sustainable supply chain management with NGOs, NPOs, and charity organizations: A systematic review and research agenda," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 164(C).
    2. Vincent Charles & Ali Emrouznejad & Tatiana Gherman, 2023. "A critical analysis of the integration of blockchain and artificial intelligence for supply chain," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 327(1), pages 7-47, August.
    3. Naoum Tsolakis & Roman Schumacher & Manoj Dora & Mukesh Kumar, 2023. "Artificial intelligence and blockchain implementation in supply chains: a pathway to sustainability and data monetisation?," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 327(1), pages 157-210, August.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wsi:apjorx:v:39:y:2022:i:01:n:s0217595920400217. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tai Tone Lim (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.worldscinet.com/apjor/apjor.shtml .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.