World Journal of Engineering Research and Technology

Muhammad S. Ahmed* and Revansidha Dhondappa Chabukswar

ABSTRACT

Implementing digital technologies in supply chain management is becoming increasingly important as businesses seek to streamline their operations and remain competitive in an ever-evolving global marketplace. We intend to find the existence of any high-level Digital Supply Chain (DSC) conceptualization and theoretical framework in the current literature. Building upon previous research on the digital supply chain's body of knowledge published during the decade ending in 2018, we present some initial findings of our extensive research on the digital supply chain's body of knowledge published from 2018 to 2022. The results of this study will serve as the groundwork for developing future research on the digital supply chain (DSC). Eighty-two peer-reviewed articles have been examined with an emphasis on technology enablers, research methodology, limitations and research of literature, and descriptive analysis of the findings within the digital supply chain's body of knowledge. The study identifies the primary technological enablers as the digitalization and transformation of the supply chain. It concludes that technologies, digitalization, integration, collaboration, and coordination frameworks are the primary drivers behind developing the digital supply chain. The existing research articles on DSC have identified information gaps and highlighted significant DSC constraints and opportunities. According to our findings, most publications did not discuss any DSC's theoretical underpinnings, while less than one-third of all research uses review-type research. The study's findings suggest that researchers often use qualitative case studies to analyze DSC growth empirically. We intend to use these results to develop high-level DSC conceptualization and theoretical frameworks.

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