Automation and enabling technologies can benefit business and economies globally by revolutionising supply chains, altering ways we work, demanding new skills and capabilities, improving communication, collaboration and integration of supply chain partners. At the same time, technologies can contribute to achieving economic objectives by addressing productivity, efficiency, health and safety, environmental and social sustainability. Forward thinking organisations expanding into poor and aspirational markets will utilise advanced technologies catalysing transformational economic and social change. This special issue invites systematic literature reviews that explore the application and impact of advanced technologies on supply chain management theory and practice.