Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Vihar Lake, NITIE, Powai, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400087, India.
Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Puebla, Mexico.
J Environ Manage. 2022 Nov 15;322:115945. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115945. Epub 2022 Aug 27.
The ever-growing concern of sustainability and survivability attracts academicians and practitioners to develop strategies and supply chain capabilities that cater to the challenges and helps in achieving the sustainability development goals. There is a need to develop a holistic model that facilitates understanding the relationships among supply chain practices, industry 4.0 technologies, and supply chain performance measures. Thus, this study examines the mediating effect of industry 4.0 technologies on supply chain management practices and supply chain performance measures. A survey-based data was collected from manufacturing organizations across India, and 361 complete responses were obtained. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized for data analysis. This study has multiple contributions. First, the results indicate that the supply chain management practices influence the industry 4.0 technologies adoption. Second, the results also revealed that the industry 4.0 technologies significantly positively affect supply chain performance measures. Finally, industry 4.0 technologies mediated the relations between supply chain management practices and supply chain performance measures. Furthermore, the findings offer important insights into understanding the underlying mechanisms in successfully adopting and effectively using industry 4.0 technologies. The implications for theory and practices are also discussed.
可持续性和生存能力的日益关注吸引了学者和从业者制定策略和供应链能力，以应对挑战，并有助于实现可持续发展目标。需要开发一个整体模型，以促进理解供应链实践、工业 4.0 技术和供应链绩效措施之间的关系。因此，本研究考察了工业 4.0 技术对供应链管理实践和供应链绩效措施的中介效应。本研究从印度各地的制造组织收集了基于调查的数据集，并获得了 361 个完整的回复。结构方程建模（SEM）用于数据分析。本研究有多个贡献。首先，结果表明供应链管理实践影响工业 4.0 技术的采用。其次，结果还表明工业 4.0 技术对供应链绩效措施有显著的积极影响。最后，工业 4.0 技术中介了供应链管理实践与供应链绩效措施之间的关系。此外，这些发现提供了对成功采用和有效利用工业 4.0 技术的基本机制的深入理解。还讨论了对理论和实践的意义。
