Abstract
This paper aims to analyse the actual state of research in the field of supply chain management and to identify eventual gaps of knowledge and potential research directions in the field concerned. Concepts such as supply chain, supply chain management, procurement management, sales management, outsourcing, quality standards, key performance indicators and data visualisation are analysed and defined. Defining conceptual elements of the approached field, analysing different national and international studies, converge to identify eventual differences concerning authors’ opinion, problems, research gaps and potential research directions. It has been found that the specialty literature analyses in general subjects such as supply chain management, supplier performance, suppliers’ selection and evaluation, suppliers’ development, performance management and do not take into consideration also the supply chain management performance, so that various gaps concerning the specialty literature in the field of supply chain management performance evaluation have been identified. Causes, effects and hypothetical solutions of the identified problems have been highlighted.
Highlights
Due to a previous work, the state of art in the field of supply chain management is presented through a bibliographic study that is conducted from various secondary sources
The main goal of this paper was to analyse the actual state of the scientific knowledge in the field of supply chain management and to ascertain the eventual gaps of knowledge in this area, identifying potential unexplored research directions
The work developed facilitated the analysis of the current state of research and of the conceptual elements specific of the field concerned by consulting numerous bibliographic sources, studies and researches, which led to the identification of problems, causes, effects and hypothetical solutions
Summary
Due to a previous work, the state of art in the field of supply chain management is presented through a bibliographic study that is conducted from various secondary sources. Specific terms, concepts, definitions related to this field, typology and orientation of existing specialised studies in the scientific literature were analysed. The main goal of this paper was to analyse the actual state of the scientific knowledge in the field of supply chain management and to ascertain the eventual gaps of knowledge in this area, identifying potential unexplored research directions. In the first part of research, the epistemological approach and conceptual elements were presented. Concepts such as supply chain, supply chain management, procurement management, sales management, outsourcing, performance management and data visualisation were analysed and defined
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