Review of the challenges in implementing industry 4.0 technologies in the context of sustainable supply chains.

Since Germany presented the so-called Industry 4.0 in 2011, there has been an increasing number of studies related to this concept, seeking to cover different perspectives, from supply chain management to harmonizing production systems in sustainability. However, when exploring the risks associated with implementing Industry 4.0, it is observed that there are still research gaps in combining these perspectives. In this sense, this work is a systematic literature review of the possible challenges that organizations face and are associated with implementing Industry 4.0 technologies in managing the Supply Chain in a Sustainability context. A review of 45 papers was conducted based on a filter process for 103 initial publications to categorize the main challenges presented in the literature. The results show a tendency towards challenges involved with labor competence followed by those challenges related to the costs of implementing 4.0 technologies, organizational culture, and computer security, so that knowledge of this condition will allow the formulation of a strategy according to the situation. The document’s analysis and findings section should highlight the general perception of opportunities a company can consider once challenges related to Industry 4.0 are shown.