A Review of Digital Transformation on Supply Chain Process Management Using Text Mining

Abstract

Industry 4.0 technologies are causing a paradigm shift in supply chain process management. The digital transformation of the supply chains provides enormous benefits to organizations by empowering collaboration among multiple internal and external organizations and systems. This study presents a narrative review explaining the existing knowledge on digital transformation in supply chain process management using text mining. It summarizes the existing literature to explain the current state of the art in supply chain digitalization. This comprehensive review identifies the most important topics and technologies and determines the future trends in this emerging field. We investigate the articles published in Web of Science and Scopus databases and use text mining techniques (clustering and topic modeling) on the article contents. Using VOS viewer, a bibliometric analysis of 395 articles with 12,700 references is analyzed. The contents of the articles are explored using text mining approaches. The synthesized results reveal that the most important topics in digital transformation are “sustainable supply chain management” and “circular economy and industry 4.0 technologies”. The study further discovers big data, data analytics, blockchain, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things as the most critical technologies for facilitating supply chain digital transformation. Finally, an overlay heatmap analysis of the research articles found that digital transformation, supply chain management, industry 4.0, decision-making, and sustainability are emerging trends in supply chain digitalization.

Factors affecting organisations' supply chain agility and competitive capability

“…, 2021). Moreover, this study's results suggest that supply chain managements should promote visibility in supply chain operations so as to make them more agile by increasing their transparency to their partners and employees (Tavana et al. , 2022).…”

“…The ability to make effective and timely decisions is dependent on supply chain speed, which means that the critical exploration of this factor can be helpful for the development of more relevant insights into leadership potential (Dabi c et al, 2021). Moreover, this study's results suggest that supply chain managements should promote visibility in supply chain operations so as to make them more agile by increasing their transparency to their partners and employees (Tavana et al, 2022). Strategies employed by UAE companies, such as supporting informational exchanges and the involvement of stakeholders in formulating supply chain policies, are crucial.…”

“…Strategies employed by UAE companies, such as supporting informational exchanges and the involvement of stakeholders in formulating supply chain policies, are crucial. Firms that engage in these practices are often market leaders and generally tend to be more agile in their supply chains' operations, as they are more visible within their networks (Tavana et al, 2022). Flexibility is also an issue that should greatly concern supply chain management teams.…”

Can digitalization improve enterprise sustainability?–Evidence from the resilience perspective of Chinese firms

“…Rich exploration has been carried out in the existing research. Refer to existing research [ 40 , 70 , 71 ]. We adopted Python technology to mine the digital word frequency information in the enterprise annual report and used the ratio of the digital word frequency in the annual report to the total word frequency to represent the digitalization index [ 70 , 72 ].…”

Digital Development Influencing Mechanism on Green Innovation Performance: A Perspective of Green Innovation Network

“…In the end, in terms of research on digital development to enable green innovation, digital transformation of enterprises has effectively enhanced their innovation capabilities [17]. First, digital transformation promotes the penetration of the product value chain [18] with emerging technologies and devices such as big data, cloud computing, and blockchain, including research and development, product design, manufacturing, and other aspects. Second, in the process of digital transformation, companies can obtain a large amount of information and data about products and markets, which can help them not only in research and development, product design, and manufacturing of new products, but also in process and technology innovation [19].…”