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

In: TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL 4.0 ERA Resilience, Responsiveness and Reliability

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  • Suyuan Luo
  • Tsan-Ming Choi

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 4.0 era.

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  • Suyuan Luo & Tsan-Ming Choi, 2025. "Operational Research for Technology-Driven Supply Chains in the Industry 4.0 Era: Recent Development and Future Studies," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Bin Shen & Ciwei Dong & Chi To Ng (ed.), TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT IN INDUSTRIAL 4.0 ERA Resilience, Responsiveness and Reliability, chapter 1, pages 1-24, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wschap:9789819808588_0001
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    Keywords

    Supply Chain; Digitalization; New Technology; Resilience; Responsiveness; Reliability;
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    JEL classification:

    • L23 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Organization of Production
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • L14 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Transactional Relationships; Contracts and Reputation

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