On the Necessity for Digital Transformation in Agriculture Supply Chains: A Review from Task, Organization, Behavior, and Application Perspectives

Abstract

AbstractDigital transformation has taken place in many industrial sectors to gain leverage by the technology implementation or to transform the whole organization or its parts. The digital transformation has grown to become popular, especially in agriculture supply chains related research. Research journals have reported more digital technology applications in the area, with some of the noted technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, machine learning, and blockchain. Nonetheless, what structured principles and approaches to champion the digital transformation remained an open question. The process itself is not bound only to the technological aspects. Thus, this research reviews the transformation task definition, organization, behavior, and application aspects of the digital transformation within the agriculture supply chains to attain a practical and pragmatic perspective. The researchers performed a comprehensive literature survey to investigate the possible insights, current implementation state, key issues, and the necessity for further research. The overall findings reveal that the digital transformation is a dynamic process of fusing the technology into the agriculture supply chains. Also, the IoT, blockchain, and data mining technologies play a significant role in implementing the digital transformation in agriculture supply chains. Finally, a generic work for agriculture supply chains’ digital transformation process is proposed at the end of this study.KeywordsDigital transformationAgriculture supply chainBlockchain