Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience Through Internet of Things Integration: A Systematic Literature Review
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.68337/cpsm.v1.i2.2026-040Keywords:
Digital transformation, Industry 4.0, Internet of Things, supply chain resilience, systematic literature reviewAbstract
This systematic review is based on a search of five bibliographic databases covering the period from 2019 to 2025, from which an explicit inclusion process selected 34 articles. The Internet of Things (IoT) enhances supply chain resilience by providing real-time operational visibility and, through its integration with artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain technology, and cloud computing, by reducing operational uncertainty. Several obstacles persist, such as limited interoperability, ineffective governance, and a skills gap, particularly in cybersecurity. Interest in supply chain research has grown in the literature over the past decade, but studies of resilience in emerging economies remain insufficient.
References
[1] Asrar U. Haque, Mohammad Akeef Al Haque, Abdulrahman Alabduladheem, Abubakr Al Mulla, Nasser Almulhim, and Ramasamy Srinivasagan, "Machine learning-based shelf life estimator for dates using a multichannel gas sensor: Enhancing food security," Sensors, vol. 25, no. 13, Art. no. 4063, 2025, doi: 10.3390/s25134063.
[2] Gözde Bakioğlu, "Prioritization of digital technology applications in intermodal freight transport using CRITIC-based picture fuzzy TOPSIS method," Int. J. Automot. Sci. Technol., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 230-240, 2025, doi: 10.30939/ijastech..1639635.
[3] Rohit Sharma, Balan Sundarakani, and Ioannis Manikas, "Integration of Industry 4.0 technologies for agri-food supply chain resilience," Comput. Ind., vol. 165, Art. no. 104225, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.compind.2024.104225.
[4] Xiaoting Guo, Zhaojun Yang, Jun Sun, and Yali Zhang, "Impact pathways of emerging ITs to mitigate supply chain vulnerability: A novel DEMATEL-ISM approach based on grounded theory," Expert Syst. Appl., vol. 239, Art. no. 122398, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122398.
[5] Ghulam Qader, Muhammad Junaid, Qamar Abbas, and Muhammad Shujaat Mubarik, "Industry 4.0 enables supply chain resilience and supply chain performance," Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, vol. 185, Art. no. 122026, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2022.122026.
[6] Priyanka Verma, Vimal Kumar, Pratima Verma, Kuei-Kuei Lai, and Prabhkiran Kaur, "Leveraging innovative logistics for strengthening supply chain resilience in the face of disruptions," Asian J. Interdiscip. Res., vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 35-55, 2025, doi: 10.54392/ajir2523.
[7] Yang Han, "Navigating supply chain resilience in the knowledge economy: Insights from digital technologies and organizational information processing," J. Knowl. Econ., vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 9898-9931, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s13132-024-02289-x.
[8] Eugenia-Alina Roman, Armand-Serban Stere, Eugen Roșca, Adriana-Valentina Radu, Denis Codroiu, and Anamaria Ilie, "State of the art of digital twins in improving supply chain resilience," Logistics, vol. 9, no. 1, Art. no. 22, 2025, doi: 10.3390/logistics9010022.
[9] Guan Wang and Maowei Chen, "Performance evaluation and strategic analysis of logistics development for China Railway Express: A spatial connectivity perspective," Systems, vol. 13, no. 3, Art. no. 166, 2025, doi: 10.3390/systems13030166.
[10] Federico Briatore, Francesca Vanni, Roberto Mosca, and Marco Mosca, "Enhancing supply chain resilience: The impact of 4.0 technologies," J. Transp. Supply Chain Manag., vol. 19, Art. no. a1107, 2025, doi: 10.4102/jtscm.v19i0.1107.
[11] Ganesh Kumar R, Dinesh Kumar S, C. Anirvinna, and Rapaka David Goodwin, "An empirical assessment of technological advancements on supply chain management performance: A mixed-methods SEM approach using SmartPLS," Oper. Manag. Res., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1142-1166, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s12063-025-00556-x.
[12] Hokey Min and K. M. Mahaboob Sheriff, "Enhancing resilience in the global automotive supply chain: Lessons learned from the systematic literature review," Int. J. Logist. Syst. Manag., vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 339-375, 2025, doi: 10.1504/IJLSM.2025.147540.
[13] Yida Yang, Azmawani Abd. Rahman, Khalina Abdan, Yuhanis Aziz Abdul, and Yanfeng Li, "The application of organizational information processing theory in supply chain management strategy research: A bibliometric review," Corp. Bus. Strategy Rev., vol. 6, no. 1, special issue, 2025, doi: 10.22495/cbsrv6i1siart14.
[14] Refentse L. Selepe, Olasumbo A. Makinde, and Thomas Munyai, "Application of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to enhance supply chain sourcing: A systematic literature review," J. Transp. Supply Chain Manag., vol. 19, Art. no. a1111, 2025, doi: 10.4102/jtscm.v19i0.1111.
[15] Hajar Fatorachian and Kulwant Pawar, "Sustainable cold chain management: An evaluation of predictive waste management models," Appl. Sci., vol. 15, no. 2, Art. no. 770, 2025, doi: 10.3390/app15020770.
[16] Amit Bhaskar, Abhishek Kashyap, Om Ji Shukla, Rupesh Kumar, Anurag Singh, and Sarbjit Singh Oberoi, "A bibliometric analysis of research papers on digital twin-enabled smart manufacturing in Industry 4.0 focusing on local citation scores," Int. J. Syst. Assur. Eng. Manag., 2025, doi: 10.1007/s13198-025-02887-1.
[17] Shuang Tian, Lin Wu, Maria Pia Ciano, Marco Ardolino, and Kulwant S. Pawar, "Enhancing innovativeness and performance of the manufacturing supply chain through datafication: The role of resilience," Comput. Ind. Eng., vol. 188, Art. no. 109841, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2023.109841.
[18] Huamin Wu, Guo Li, and Hong Zheng, "How does digital intelligence technology enhance supply chain resilience? Sustainable framework and agenda," Ann. Oper. Res., vol. 355, no. 1, pp. 901-923, 2025, doi: 10.1007/s10479-024-06104-3.
[19] Pengcheng Li, Yanbing Chen, and Xiaochuan Guo, "Digital transformation and supply chain resilience," Int. Rev. Econ. Finance, vol. 99, Art. no. 104033, 2025, doi: 10.1016/j.iref.2025.104033.
[20] Ayaskanta Mishra, Sayan Karmakar, Ankita Dutta, Ankush Bose, and Manaswini Mohapatro, "Design and deployment of IoT enabled blockchain based resilient supply-chain management system using Ethereum," Int. J. Comput. Digit. Syst., vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1029-1050, 2022, doi: 10.12785/ijcds/120183.
[21] Xiaohong Chen, Caicai He, Yan Chen, and Zhiyuan Xie, "Internet of Things (IoT)-blockchain-enabled pharmaceutical supply chain resilience in the post-pandemic era," Front. Eng. Manag., vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 82-95, 2023, doi: 10.1007/s42524-022-0233-1.
[22] Sura I. Al-Ayed and Ahmad A. Al-Tit, "The effect of supply chain risk management on supply chain resilience: The intervening part of Internet-of-Things," Uncertain Supply Chain Manag., vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 179-186, 2023, doi: 10.5267/j.uscm.2022.10.009.
[23] Zachary Auhl, Naveen Chilamkurti, Rabei Alhadad, and Will Heyne, "A comparative study of consensus mechanisms in blockchain for IoT networks," Electronics, vol. 11, no. 17, Art. no. 2694, 2022, doi: 10.3390/electronics11172694.
[24] Linda Njomane and Arnesh Telukdarie, "Impact of COVID-19 food supply chain: Comparing the use of IoT in three South African supermarkets," Technol. Soc., vol. 71, Art. no. 102051, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.102051.
[25] Alexander Spieske and Hendrik Birkel, "Improving supply chain resilience through Industry 4.0: A systematic literature review under the impressions of the COVID-19 pandemic," Comput. Ind. Eng., vol. 158, Art. no. 107452, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2021.107452.
[26] Nanyang Zhao, Jiangtao Hong, and Kwok Hung Lau, "Impact of supply chain digitalization on supply chain resilience and performance: A multi-mediation model," Int. J. Prod. Econ., vol. 259, Art. no. 108817, 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2023.108817.
[27] Abderahman Rejeb, Steve Simske, Karim Rejeb, Horst Treiblmaier, and Suhaiza Zailani, "Internet of Things research in supply chain management and logistics: A bibliometric analysis," Internet Things, vol. 12, Art. no. 100318, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.iot.2020.100318.
[28] Imen Zrelli and Abderahman Rejeb, "A bibliometric analysis of IoT applications in logistics and supply chain management," Heliyon, vol. 10, no. 16, Art. no. e36578, 2024, doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e36578.
[29] Jerifa Zaman, Atefeh Shoomal, Mohammad Jahanbakht, and Dervis Ozay, "Driving supply chain transformation with IoT and AI integration: A dual approach using bibliometric analysis and topic modeling," IoT, vol. 6, no. 2, Art. no. 21, 2025, doi: 10.3390/iot6020021.
[30] Shahriar Akter, Katina Michael, Muhammad Rajib Uddin, Grace McCarthy, and Mahfuzur Rahman, "Transforming business using digital innovations: The application of AI, blockchain, cloud and data analytics," Ann. Oper. Res., vol. 308, no. 1-2, pp. 7-39, 2022, doi: 10.1007/s10479-020-03620-w.
[31] Amine Belhadi, Sachin Kamble, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Angappa Gunasekaran, Nelson Oly Ndubisi, and Mani Venkatesh, "Manufacturing and service supply chain resilience to the COVID-19 outbreak: Lessons learned from the automobile and airline industries," Technol. Forecast. Soc. Change, vol. 163, Art. no. 120447, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120447.
[32] Mehrdokht Pournader, Yangyan Shi, Stefan Seuring, and S. C. Lenny Koh, "Blockchain applications in supply chains, transport and logistics: A systematic review of the literature," Int. J. Prod. Res., vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 2063-2081, 2020, doi: 10.1080/00207543.2019.1650976.
[33] Mohamed Ben-Daya, Elkafi Hassini, and Zied Bahroun, "Internet of things and supply chain management: A literature review," Int. J. Prod. Res., vol. 57, no. 15-16, pp. 4719-4742, 2019, doi: 10.1080/00207543.2017.1402140.
[34] Seyedmohsen Hosseini, Dmitry Ivanov, and Alexandre Dolgui, "Review of quantitative methods for supply chain resilience analysis," Transp. Res. E, Logist. Transp. Rev., vol. 125, pp. 285-307, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2019.03.001.
[35] Barbara Kitchenham and Stuart Charters, "Guidelines for performing systematic literature reviews in software engineering," Keele Univ. and Durham Univ., UK, Tech. Rep. EBSE-2007-01, 2007.
[36] David Moher, Alessandro Liberati, Jennifer Tetzlaff, Douglas G. Altman, and the PRISMA Group, "Preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses: The PRISMA statement," PLoS Med., vol. 6, no. 7, Art. no. e1000097, 2009, doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000097.
[37] Dmitry Ivanov, "Predicting the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on global supply chains: A simulation-based analysis on the coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2) case," Transp. Res. E, Logist. Transp. Rev., vol. 136, Art. no. 101922, 2020, doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2020.101922.
[38] Hendrik Sebastian Birkel and Evi Hartmann, "Internet of Things: The future of managing supply chain risks," Supply Chain Manag., vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 535-548, 2020, doi: 10.1108/SCM-09-2019-0356.
[39] Yu Xiao and Maria Watson, "Guidance on conducting a systematic literature review," J. Plan. Educ. Res., vol. 39, no. 1, pp. 93-112, 2019, doi: 10.1177/0739456X17723971.
[40] E. Manavalan and K. Jayakrishna, "A review of Internet of Things (IoT) embedded sustainable supply chain for industry 4.0 requirements," Comput. Ind. Eng., vol. 127, pp. 925-953, 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.cie.2018.11.030.
[41] Priyabrata Chowdhury, Sanjoy Kumar Paul, Shahriar Kaisar, and Md. Abdul Moktadir, "COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review," Transp. Res. E, Logist. Transp. Rev., vol. 148, Art. no. 102271, 2021, doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102271.
Downloads
Published
Data Availability Statement
The data supporting the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.Conference Proceedings Volume
Section
Categories
License
Copyright (c) 2026 The Authors
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Articles published in Conference Proceedings in Science and Management are made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright in their work and grant the journal first publication rights. Readers are free to share and adapt the published material for any purpose, including commercial use, provided appropriate credit is given to the author, a link to the license is provided, and any changes are indicated.
