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Smart supply chain management in Industry 4.0: the review, research agenda and strategies in North America

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The emerging information and communication technologies (ICT) related to Industry 4.0 play a critical role to enhance supply chain performance. Employing the smart technologies has led to so-called smart supply chains. Understanding how Industry 4.0 and related ICT affect smart supply chains and how smart supply chains evolve with the support of the advanced technologies are vital to practical and academic communities. Existing review works on smart supply chains with ICT mainly rely on the academic literature alone. This paper presents an integrated approach to explore the effects of Industry 4.0 and related ICT on smart supply chains, by combining introduction of the current national strategies in North America, the research status analysis on ICT assisted supply chains from the major North American national research councils, and a systematic literature review of the subject. Besides, we introduce a smart supply chain hierarchical framework with multi-level intelligence. Furthermore, the challenges faced by supply chains under Industry 4.0 and future research directions are discussed as well.

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This research was supported by NSERC Discovery grant (RGPIN-2014-03594, RGPIN-2019-07115). The details of NSF and NSERC projects can be found in the NSF or NSERC databases. The lists of NSF and NSERC projects reported in this paper are provided and can be downloaded from the website (https://www.uwindsor.ca/scm/306/publications).

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Table 4 A review of Selected NSF and NSERC projects in emerging ICTs for SCM
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Table 5 Industry 4.0’s impact on the different process of development and fulfillment supply chains
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Table 6 The literature related to different kinds of warehouses and Industry 4.0 technologies
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Zhang, G., Yang, Y. & Yang, G. Smart supply chain management in Industry 4.0: the review, research agenda and strategies in North America. Ann Oper Res 322, 1075–1117 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-022-04689-1

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