Scaling Research Efficacy in Supply Chain Management towards Industry 4.0 Automation

Abstract

With the advancement of various advanced technologies towards information access system using pervasive and ubiquitous computing, the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is yet not ready to adopt the latest technological system. The commercial usage of SCM is still limited to adoption of conventional Radio Frequency Tags and simple sensors with internal communication performed on internet system. However, the entry of cloud-computing has brought a significant revolution in the area of automation, which is expected to make the complete SCM process a ubiquitous one. There is a less focus on SCM process improvement in order to keep pace with faster changing dynamics of technologies, and this hypothesis is explored in proposed review work. This paper discusses recent studies being carried out in SCM, which proved that existing SCM system has many open-end limitations as well as significant research gap that is yet to be bridged in order to give SCM a shape of industry 4.0 standard