An Analysis of Research Trends in the Sustainability of Production Planning

Sustainability has become of great interest in many fields, especially production systems due to the continual increase scarcity raw materials and environmental awareness. Recent literature given significant attention considering three sustainability pillars (i.e., environmental, economic, social sustainability) solving planning problems. Therefore, present study conducts a review on sustainable analyze relationships among different problems (e.g., scheduling, lot sizing, aggregate planning, etc.) pillars. In addition, we identified studies based indicators that define each pillar. The results show most frequently addresses scheduling while it lacks consider there is growing trend towards obtaining integrated solutions problems, e.g., combining with maintenance or energy planning. Additionally, around 45% considered integration economic consumption greenhouse gas emissions are frequent literature, less been indicators. Another issue low number have all simultaneously. finidings highlight need for more future research holistic approaches.