“…The adoption of optimization and I4 techniques have offered numerous advantages to businesses, some of which include monitoring and control of the use of resources in production processes, smart and efficient logistic operations (Esmaeilian et al, 2020), transportation planning to reduce carbon footprint, and efficient use of raw materials and energy in production processes (Sarkar et al, 2021), smart inventory management. Our analysis also suggests that the use of optimization and I4.0 techniques has contributed to the areas such as environmental, social and economic sustainability (Hall et al, 2012b), circular economy (Kazancoglu et al, 2021;Mahroof et al, 2021;Mishra et al, 2023), closed-loop supply chain (Bisheh et al, 2018), energy conservation, life cycle assessment (Gao and You, 2017), and Greenhouse gas (GHGs) emission monitoring and control (Zeng et al, 2022b). This is a testament that optimization and I4 are potential enablers for achieving sustainability in supply chain operations.…”