Abstract
Studies that have examined the digital transformation’s association with supply chains have been actively conducted for over 10 years, and studies on digital supply chain management have been increasing. However, there is a lack of consensus on the definitions of or views about the digital supply chain; thus, researchers in the academic or industrial fields propound various concepts of digital supply chains, which results in confusion during the exchange of opinions or transmission of concepts in many cases. The purpose of this study is to identify the research trends from various articles on the digital supply chain that have been published so far, summarize and analyze the theories and concepts pertaining to it, and review future topics of research. Network text analysis was conducted by extracting information from unstructured text data to identify research trends. The results of the analysis showed that many studies have examined the digital supply chain in terms of sustainable management. “Sustainability” was the most influential word in the keyword network, and the digital transformation of supply chains is essential for the sustainable viability of firms in the era of Industry 4.0 and digital transformation. Many studies have focused on technology for big data analysis and the IoT as technologies to fulfill digital supply chains and maintained that COVID-19 has increased risk factors such as global supply chain disruptions, which is why global firms must monitor the supply chain in real time by securing end-to-end visibility and making corporate-level efforts to build a digital supply chain to instantly detect and deal with related risks. The common groups of keywords were related to “supply chain integration”, “resilience”, “digital technologies”, and “digital transformation”.
Highlights
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing various countries’ industrial structures, and overall business processes and models
As opposed to the earlier method of producing goods based on production plans that depended on market demands, these efforts are made with the digitalization of processes through the sharing of real-time information based on digital connectivity, which we know as well as the concept of digital transformation
Since 2010, studies on digital supply chain management have been increasingly published, and numbers have rapidly risen since 2015, when digital transformation began to be discussed in earnest
Summary
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing various countries’ industrial structures, and overall business processes and models. In some ways, these changes are advanced by technological development, but they can be regarded as the efforts made voluntarily by firms to survive and cope with rapid changes in customer demands, such as increased needs for personalized and diversified products, the diversification of purchasing methods, and the convergence of products with services. Scholars tend to perceive the development of digital supply chains as a concept that advocates that supply chain operations are advanced by quickly evolving technology, whereas industrial experts working in famous consulting firms focus on changes in business models in accordance with the concept of digital supply chains from the perspective of digitalization of processes
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