This paper explores the role of Internet of Things (IoT) and its impact on supply chain management (SCM) through an extensive literature review. Important aspects of IoT in SCM are covered including IoT definition, main IoT technology enablers and various SCM processes and applications. We offer several categorisation of the extant literature, such as based on methodology, industry sector and focus on a classification based on major supply chain processes. In addition, a bibliometric analysis of the literature is also presented. We find that most studies have focused on conceptualising the impact of IoT with limited analytical models and empirical studies. In addition, most studies have focused on the delivery supply chain process and the food and manufacturing supply chains. Areas of future SCM research that can support IoT implementation are also identified.

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Hospitals use very costly medical equipment like scanners, RMI, endoscopy equipment or operating rooms. In this paper, we propose a mixed integer model to schedule patients on different hospital resources they can need during their stay in a hospital. We study the case of multiple types of resources and for each type the existence of several parallel units. The objective is to minimize the sum of all patients' stays. We used LINGO11 solver, along with our mathematical formulation, to solve the problem. The results showed that, as expected for an NP-hard problem, the computational times rise exponentially with the size of the instances.