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Smart Manufacturing and Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainable Supply-Chain - An Integrative Perspective
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Operações Sustentáveis

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Ricardo Caruso Vieira

Reumo

The applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) for sustainable supply chain is being studied for more than one decade by operations management and information systems scholars. Much investment was made to apply new ICT technologies for western industrial parks to recover their competitiveness, in initiatives like Smart Manufacturing and Industrie 4.0, and improvements in the sustainability of operations are expected by these programs developers and researchers. How the sustainability can be impacted by these technologies, however, is not clear yet. This research uses the systematic review to map the previous research about ICT for sustainable supply chain and analyze it in the Smart Manufacturing perspective. The works were divided by four categories: vertical integration, horizontal integration, lifecycle integrations and other applications. The ICT literature presented some technology applications that are being included in Smart Manufacturing programs and has already some empirical applications that can guide and evaluate the real impact of them. As a result, the proposals of both types of research are very similar, and Smart Manufacturing can be seen as an evolution of previous concepts.