Production Planning and Control in Industry 4.0: Overview on Challenges of Data-Driven PPC Systems

The integration of Industry 4.0 technologies offers significant potential to transform production planning and control (PPC) systems, but organizations face various challenges in adopting data-driven solutions. This paper examines 51 review articles published between 2019 and February 2025 and identifies 30 different challenges categorized into entry barriers, data-related issues, complexity of PPC tasks, and operational constraints. Overcoming these challenges will require not only technical solutions, but also holistic approaches, including interdisciplinary research. Future work should involve practitioners to evaluate the relevance of these challenges, as their importance has not been assessed from an industry perspective.