Industry 4.0 Technology-Supported Framework for Sustainable Supply Chain Management in the Textile Industry

The ever-growing degradation of the environment has led to the building and implementation of various strategies to achieve sustainable development. The textile industry is not left out in this struggle to reach sustainability through sustainable supply chain management. This paper proposes a sustainable closed-loop supply chain for the textile industry, integrating some industry 4.0 Technologies to facilitate data-driven decision-making within the supply chain and ensure sustainability. The study reveals that block-chain application in the closed-loop supply chain will support tracking and enable supply chain traceability and provide secure means of recording information about the actors and their actions in the supply chain. The paper further recommends the use of Big Data technologies throughout the life cycle stages for data retrieval, processing, storage, mining and application in the textile industry. Also, Industry 4.0 technologies will facilitate sustainable supply chain in the textile industry as it helps in data collection, analysis and information transmission.