Digital Transformation Impacts on Sustainable Business Practices with respect to Energy Perspective of the Supply Chain

Topic Name:

Digital Transformation Impacts on Sustainable Business Practices with respect to Energy Perspective of the Supply Chain

Acronyms of Topic Name:

SUSTENCHAIN

Objectives profound: 

  1. To analyze the impact of energy sustainability initiatives in supply chain agility and responsiveness.
  2. To identify key digital technologies that contribute to energy efficiency in supply chains.
  3. To study the digitisation Impacts in the Energy conservation methods in the manufacturing sector.
  4. To study the digitisation Impacts in agility of supply chain in manufacturing sector in terms of factors affecting their implementation
  5. To develop a decision making framework for manufacturing sector businesses to balance energy sustainability and supply chain agility
  6. To examine industry specific case studies to validate the findings and framework 

Issues Involved: 

Objective 1:

  • Balancing Sustainability and Agility
  • Stakeholders’ (suppliers, manufacturers, logistics providers, etc) alignment to avoid conflict regarding energy sustainability and agility requirements.
  • Non availability of Performance Metrics for evaluation of impact of sustainable initiatives

Objective 2:

  • Energy efficient technology Adoption Barriers,
  • Data Integration issues from multiple sources to monitor real time data,
  • Difficulties in scaling energy optimization technologies across supply chain,

Objective 3:

  • Limited access to advanced technologies,
  • Integration of Automation into manufacturing to increase energy efficiency
  • High cost of investments and perceptions

Objective 4:

  • Factors contributing to resistance to change,
  • Availability of digital infrastructure for agility of supply chain,
  • Cybersecurity concerns,
  • Availability of skilled personnel to manage digital technologies in supply chain.

Objective 5:

  • Generalization for adapting to various industries and scales of operation,
  • Challenges to selection of decision criteria to balance supply chain agility and energy efficiency.

Objective 6:

  • Data availability from industries,
  • Challenges in comparative analysis across different industries and organizations of different scales,
  • Identifying appropriate benchmarks and matrices to access effectiveness of framework 

Team Lead

Name: Dr. Nishita Parekh

Email ID: Nishita.Parekh@nmims.edu 

Team Members

Name: Dr. Jinu Kurian

Email ID: Jinu.Kurian@nmims.edu

Name: Dr. Rajesh Patil

Email ID: Rajesh.Patil@nmims.edu