Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management

Supply chain management in the information age (An analysis of research trends in the field of information flow in the supply chain)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Ali Morovati Sharif abadi 1
Alireza Rajabipoor Meybodi 1
khadijeh mohammadi 2
leila Mohammadi 3
1 Associate Professor, Department of Management Science, Yazd University, Yazd. Iran
2 PhD. Student in industrial management, Faculty of Economics, Management and Social Sciences, Shiraz university, Shiraz. Iran
3 Department of computer engineering. faculty of computer engineering. Yazd university. Yazd. Iran
10.22034/jipm.2024.2011739.1362
Abstract
Coordination among different supply chain components and the establishment of centralized decision-making capabilities, significantly impact the performance of the supply chain and consequently the organization’s performance. Nowadays, the high volume of information that being generated in these sectors and flowing among them, has confronted supply chain management with various evolutions.
Therefore, considering the high importance of information flow for achieving coordination in the supply chain, this research aims to provide a comprehensive review of existing studies on information flow in the supply chain and examines the hot topics and research trends in this field. Also, provides a road map for researchers to explain the future research path related to information flow in the supply chain. To achieve the research objectives, relevant keywords related to the research topic were searched in the Web of Science database. From the obtained article collection, 2357 articles published in a 10-year period (2013-2023) and in English were selected. For the analysis, R, VOSviewer and Excel softwares were used. Based on the obtained results, the number of articles with an annual average growth rate of 10.97 is increasing, that reflects researchers’ attention to the importance of information flow in the supply chain.
Results also show that, information flow influences various aspects of the supply chain, including agility, resilience, green supply chain, risk management, etc. Additionally, information flow can contribute to trust, collaboration, coordination, visibility, traceability, competitive advantage, and innovation, and also impacting the supply chain performance in various dimensions (financial, operational, and corporate). Among the keywords, information sharing has been the most frequent keyword, which is expressed importance of information in achieving key goals in supply chain. Supply chain management has the second position. Moreover, recent research trends emphasize the importance of focusing on information flow in achieving new technologies in the supply chain and moving towards a digital supply chain. Therefore, the future research path of information flow in the supply chain can be mapped as companies move towards digital supply chain. These research paths include addressing the challenges of supply chain digitalization, such as managers’ understanding of the concepts of digitization, managing people and organization issues in digital transformations, insufficient knowledge, environmental issues, various security risks that threaten digital technologies, poor cooperation and coordination in the supply chain, lack of strategic alignment between supply chain actors, etc.
Keywords
supply chain
information sharing
information systems
digital supply chain
Web of Science
bibliometrics
m-index
g-index
Subjects
(Schniederjans, Curado & Khalajhedayati 2020).
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Iranian Journal of Information Processing and Management
Volume 39, Issue 4 - Serial Number 119
Summer 2024
Pages 1477-1505

  • Receive Date 17 September 2023
  • Revise Date 25 March 2024
  • Accept Date 29 June 2024