Sustainable Supply Chains in the Age of <scp>AI</scp> and Digitization: Research Challenges and Opportunities

TLDR

Sustainability has become a global corporate mandate, driven by the need to green supply chains and the ubiquity of digitization, AI, and big data, which profoundly affect supply chain organization and sustainability. This essay synthesizes dominant themes in sustainable supply chain research amid digitization. It highlights new research opportunities and challenges and showcases relevant papers in the STF.

Abstract

Sustainability has become a global corporate mandate with implementation impacted by two key trends. The first is recognition that global supply chains have a profound impact on sustainability which requires “greening” the entire supply chain. The second is technology—digitization, artificial intelligence ( AI ), and “big data”—which have become ubiquitous. These technologies are impacting every aspect of how companies organize and manage their supply chains and have a powerful impact on sustainability. In this essay, we synthesize current dominant themes in research on sustainable supply chains in the age of digitization. We also highlight potential new research opportunities and challenges and showcase the papers in our STF .