This paper is published in Volume-12, Issue-5, 2026
Area
Operations Research
Author
Jinay Karia, Dr. Richa Saxena, Kavya Gala, Kevin Shah, Krishna Mundra, Kritika Agarwal
Org/Univ
NMIMS, Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pub. Date
26 October, 2026
Paper ID
V12I5-1243
Publisher
Keywords
Supply Chain Management, Industry 4.0, Digital Supply Chain, Sustainability, Circular Economy, Resilience, Blockchain, Internet of Things Artificial Intelligence and Bibliometric Analysis

Citationsacebook

IEEE
Jinay Karia, Dr. Richa Saxena, Kavya Gala, Kevin Shah, Krishna Mundra, Kritika Agarwal. Supply Chain Management and Industry 4.0, International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, www.IJARIIT.com.

APA
Jinay Karia, Dr. Richa Saxena, Kavya Gala, Kevin Shah, Krishna Mundra, Kritika Agarwal (2026). Supply Chain Management and Industry 4.0. International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology, 12(5) www.IJARIIT.com.

MLA
Jinay Karia, Dr. Richa Saxena, Kavya Gala, Kevin Shah, Krishna Mundra, Kritika Agarwal. "Supply Chain Management and Industry 4.0." International Journal of Advance Research, Ideas and Innovations in Technology 12.5 (2026). www.IJARIIT.com.

Abstract

Industry 4.0 has moved from a manufacturing slogan to a central concern of supply chain management (SCM). This review synthesises the literature on the two topics using 1,638 journal articles and reviews indexed in Scopus between 2017 and 2026, and it combines a reading of the most influential studies with the bibliometric evidence produced for this project (science mapping in Biblioshiny). Five conclusions emerge. First, research output has grown from 10 documents in 2017 to 301 in 2025, with a cumulative citation count of 88,572. Second, the field is organised around a motor theme of supply chains, decision-making, and artificial intelligence, surrounded by large clusters on sustainability and the circular economy and by smaller clusters on the Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and resilience. Third, the most cited work is conceptual, review-based or survey-based, and few studies test technology effects with longitudinal or experimental designs. Fourth, scholarship from emerging economies, above all India and China, now dominates by volume, which has shaped the field's attention to adoption barriers and sustainability. Fifth, the field is moving from Industry 4.0 towards Industry 5.0, where resilience, sustainability and human-centricity are treated together. The paper closes with a future research agenda.