Dr. Syed Abdul Rehman Khan is Director of Business Research and Consultancy Ltd, Sheffield, UK, a Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) credentialed in the USA, and a postdoctoral fellow from Tsinghua University. With over 15 years of core experience at both industry and academic levels, he has published nearly 200 peer-reviewed articles in SSCI/SCI and ABS-listed journals, with several papers indexed in Essential Science Indicators (ESI). He is the author of 11 published academic books on business administration, circular economy, and green practices in business operations. He received scientific innovation awards three times consecutively by the Education Department of Shaanxi Provincial Government, China. Dr. Khan also holds memberships in APCIS-U.S.; Production and Operation Management Society, India; Council of Supply Chain Management of Professionals U.S.; Supply Chain Association of Pakistan; and Global Supply Chain Council China.Zhang Yu works at the Department of Logistics and management engineering, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming City, P.R. China. He is an expert in retail and green supply chain, e-commerce, and reverse logistics. She has published nearly 100 articles (including ABS 3 and ABDC-ranked journals) on retail supply chain, reverse logistics, omnichannel, and sustainable supply chain management. She has research collaboration with various well-known researchers from European and Western countries. She has authored three books on sustainability in retail supply chain and business operations.