Social Sustainability in Production Planning: A Systematic Literature Review

Sustainable production includes economic, environmental, and social aspects. However, sustainability has received less attention, especially compared to the economic Next technical organizational measures, improvements within supply chains can also be achieved through suitable planning. Within planning, programs are determined, assignment of available resources (e.g., employees) is specified. Thus, utilization workload employees defined. This systematic literature review investigates what extent such employee-related aspects reflected in planning discusses whether dominate them. For this, a Scopus database search was carried out 76 identified approaches were analyzed categorized regarding occurring their implementation. Thus far, mainly consider single on levels. A consideration broad set along entire rarely been studied. In particular, health safety considered levels assembly line balancing job rotation. impact primarily determined by specific settings decision-maker. To support decision-makers, only few studies have investigated effects based real application scenarios. Further potential might an extended modeling interdependencies medium- long-term