“…• 'The reduction of unnecessary processes can reduce the workload of the picker by applying the IoT-based technology in the receiving process instead of a manual paper record of the inventory' (Lee et al, 2018) • 'Automated picking and picking robot systems use machines for order picking and are preferred for the picking of small, valuable, and delicate items' (Piccinini et al, 2013) • 'Handling of raw materials (input of the production line) and manufactured outputs on the shop floor (…) can be supported by the use of robotic sensing technologies, including Automatic-Guided-Vehicles (AGVs) and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR)' (Meindl et al, 2021) • 'Robotics and autonomous vehicles will impact the internal and external manufacturing transport by increasing its degree of autonomy and sharing' (Kusiak, 2018) 5 • 'Analytics enables advanced predictive capacity, identifying events that can affect production before it happens' (Frank et al, 2019a) • 'Nanosensors can be applied to detect the environmental and quality changes in storage and distribution processes' (Bowles & Lu, 2014) • 'Technologies applied to integrity control (e.g., sensors, big data analytics, decentralized agent-driven control) can ensure the right products, at the right time, place, quantity, and condition' (Meindl et al, 2021) 7 Operational scheduling support Digital technologies support in dynamic planning and control activities for the continuous adaption of operations and processes to operational challenges by analyzing (real-time) data and by optimizing resource allocation and utilization -Dynamic coordination -Fleet optimization -Route optimization…”