The concepts of resiliency, sustainability, and agility of supply chains have been at the top of the list more than ever. The necessity of viable and sustainable supply chain management (SCM) must be taken into account by researchers and practitioners in this era to be able to confront the impacts of unexpected events such as the COVID-19 pandemic as much as possible. A viable supply chain is characterized by resiliency, sustainability, and agility in its network design. Resiliency is essential because disruption and demand fluctuations are forced upon supply chains, and the effects of these on many managerial supply chains are unknown. In addition, applying novel technologies in addition to optimization, such as blockchain, Internet-of-Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) tools, as agility tools can assist and enable the transition to lean production. There are large fluctuations in demand, and given that customers are preferentially shifting to e-commerce, many supply chains that lack e-commerce are destined to fail. In addition to resiliency and agility, managers must pay more attention to the sustainability and greenness of a supply chain in terms of network design or production planning. Environmental impacts, energy consumption, and social aspects are also key factors to be seen by organizations during strategic, tactical, and operational decision-making.

Carbon emission trading and waste management are effective solutions to decrease negative environmental impacts. Using renewable and clean energy is one strategy to apply viable management. In this complex situation, given the pressure on people, we have to retain and maintain human resources that represent the best solution to ensure the welfare and suitability of the supply chain. In addition, applying novel technologies such as blockchain technology and running smart contracts require modeling to demonstrate the advantages of the new technology. This Special Issue (SI) aimed to investigate the achievement of resiliency and sustainability in supply chains. We were thus seeking contributions from authors presenting novel mathematical models toward ensuring resiliency, sustainability, and agility in supply chains.

To address the above-mentioned requirements, this SI entitled Recent advances in viable and sustainable supply chain management received 25 manuscripts between April 1, 2022 and August 1, 2022. Most of the submissions fell into the aforementioned research topics of this SI. Finally, 10 manuscripts were accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research after providing the requested revisions by the authors where the average acceptance rate was 40%.

The published manuscripts thoroughly investigated the application of optimization and multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) to bring together current progress on sustainability and viability along with novel models and solutions which can contribute to a better understanding of the performances of supply chain systems and render useful practical plans.