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ABSTRACT
Industry 4.0 technologies are transforming the conventional supply chain (SC) functioning and positively impacting sustainability. Blockchain and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two dimensions of industry 4.0 that play a crucial role in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) and reverse logistics. This review paper focuses on investigating the impact of these technologies on SSCM separately and with their combination on forward and reverse SCs. A total of 197 papers were extracted from the Scopus database till 2020 and finally, 174 articles relevant to our paper were shortlisted and analysed after an in-depth review. The effects of these technologies on sustainability are studied separately by different researchers earlier, but their integration can lead to various insights and disclose several opportunities. The paper portrays insights on the development of Blockchain and IoT to know the current trends, industry-wide applications, challenges, and future research opportunities on SC sustainability.
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Pankaj Dutta
Pankaj Dutta is Professor in Decision Sciences at School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai, India. He holds a PhD degree from IIT Kharagpur, India, and a Postdoctoral Fellow from EPFL, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland. He has worked as INSA Fellow at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and DAAD Visiting Professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany. He is the Central Council Member of the Operational Research Society of India. His current areas of research interest include applied operations research, business analytics, supply chain management, e-commerce, and reverse logistics. He has several publications in international journals like European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Review, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, International Journal of Information Management, International Transactions in Operational Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers & Industrial Engineering among others.
Rahul Chavhan
Rahul Chavhan is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Operation and Supply chain management from the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. He received M. Tech in Production Engineering from the Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, Mumbai, India, in 2020 and B. Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Government college of Engineering, Amravati, India, in 2018. His research fields are the Last Mile Supply Chain, Big data Analytics, and Decision Making.
Pogala Gowtham
Pogala Gowtham received MBA degree from the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2020. He has received B. Tech degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala, India.
Amrinder Singh
Amrinder Singh received MBA degree from the Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2020. He has received B. Tech Metallurgical Engineering from Birsa Institute of Technology, Sindri, Dhanbad, India.