Scalable Event-Driven Architectures for Enterprise Supply Chain and Logistics

Abstract

Scalable event-driven architectures are now the focus of enterprise supply chain and logistics research as this information is surfaced from transport assets, warehouses, suppliers, platforms and risk environments at a more frequent rate to allow for faster decision making. This review looks at the concepts of peer-reviewed studies of 2015–2025 that have focused on architectures that have the ability to transform distributed events into traceability, resilience, visibility, and automated coordination. The review of the literature shows that there is no single concept but rather scattered concepts in the domain of scalable event-driven logistics within the fields of Internet of Things (IoT) in logistics, Logistics 4.0, big data analytics, blockchain traceability, multi-agent control and digital supply chain twins. These streams have significant challenges around event capture, real time analytics, decentralized provenance, and disruption response. Key gaps remain in latency benchmarking, cross-enterprise semantic interoperability, governance of shared event streams, and validated architecture-level performance evidence. The field is significant due to the increased reliance on enterprise architectures that extend beyond the organizational boundary that are also responsive, auditable and resilient.