Industry 4.0 Adoption Drivers for Sustainable Supply Chain in the Manufacturing Sector Using a Hybrid Decision-Making Approach Under q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Information

In recent years, due to the fourth industrial revolution and digitized supply chains, firms have been required to adopt Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Internet of Things (IoT) to use every opportunity to practice management processes with utmost sustainability. Therefore, emerging IoT technologies have considerably transformed manufacturing models. Consequently, manufacturing and its accompanying supply chains need to embrace state-of-the-art technologies to improve their outreach and achieve higher levels of productivity. A variety of benefits have been offered by I4.0 to the manufacturing sector and roles played by I4.0 to adopt and apply this technology to manufacturing and supply chain management (SCM). Accordingly, this research mainly aims to recognize the key drivers that encourage the adoption of I4.0 for sustainable SCM. This study introduced an integrated decision-making method for q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets (q-ROFSs) using the weighted aggregated sum product assessment and the criteria importance through intercriteria correlation (CRITIC) methods with q-ROFSs to prioritize the enterprises and evaluate the drivers of I4.0 in the context of sustainable SCM (SSCM). The q-ROF-CRITIC model is applied to assess and prioritize the drivers of I4.0 in the context of SSCM. The study of q-ROFS indicates that there is a need for a decision approach that can implement the available information in a systematic way for making lucid decisions. An empirical case study to evaluate the drivers of I4.0 in the context of SSCM in the manufacturing sector is taken. Also, comparative study and sensitivity analysis are discussed to illustrate the dominance of the developed method.

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Due to the fourth industrial revolution and the digitization of supply chains, firms need to adopt Industry 4.0 (I4.0) and Internet of Things (IoT) to practice sustainable management processes. This research aims to recognize the key drivers that encourage the adoption of I4.0 for sustainable supply chain management (SCM) using an integrated decision-making method. It analyzes the drivers of I4.0 in the context of sustainable SCM in the manufacturing sector.