Integrating Sustainability and Reliability in the Supply Chain: a Systematic Literature Review

The continuity of any business depends on responding to customers' ever-changing needs. Production of innovative products is an effective way to meet this need. Design is one of the main tools for companies to achieve innovation. Designing a sustainable and reliable supply chain as an innovative strategy can gain customer satisfaction and ensure the company's survival. In this regard, the agenda of the present research is the descriptive analysis and content analysis of supply chain network design models, which considered sustainability and reliability in an integrated manner. This literature review includes 65 articles published in Web of Science and Scopus databases from 2011 to August 2022. The research result showed that the integration of sustainability and reliability in the supply chain network design is vibrant and rapidly growing in various industries. Developing countries and the energy industry with the most significant number of articles have been the research fields of the studies. Most of the studies have considered the structure of the supply chain as a forward flow. Mixed integer linear programming (MILP) is the most widely used modeling approach supported by heuristic and meta-heuristic algorithms. The results of the present review can be used as a guide by planners and policymakers to formulate strategies and policies to advance the sustainable-reliable program effectively.