Data Management in Smart Manufacturing Supply Chains: A Systematic Review of Practices and Applications (2020–2025)

Abstract

Smart supply chains, enabled by Industry 4.0 technologies, are increasingly recognized as key drivers of competitiveness, leveraging data across the value chain to enhance visibility, responsiveness, and resilience, while supporting better planning, optimized resource utilization, and agile customer service. Effective data management has thus become a strategic capability, fostering operational performance, innovation, and long-term value creation. However, existing research and practice remain fragmented, often focusing on isolated functions such as production, logistics, or quality, the most data-intensive and critical domains in smart manufacturing, without comprehensively addressing data acquisition, storage, integration, analysis, and visualization across all supply chain phases. This article addresses these gaps through a systematic literature review of 55 peer-reviewed studies published between 2020 and 2025, conducted following PRISMA guidelines using Scopus and Web of Science. Contributions are categorized into reviews, frameworks/models, and empirical studies, and the analysis examines how data is collected, integrated, and leveraged across the entire supply chain. By adopting a holistic perspective, this study provides a comprehensive understanding of data management in smart manufacturing supply chains, highlights current practices and persistent challenges, and identifies key avenues for future research.