Supply Chain Management in Indonesia: A Literature Review

Literature Review

Figure 1 depicts the frequency of SCM research output in the Indonesian context since 2004. It is evident that there is limited research on the topic of SCM, but more focus has been placed since 2015. Supply chain studies are also limited in other Asian countries, such as Malaysia. As stated by Ali et al. (2008), there is only a few published research in logistics and supply chain areas in Malaysia. On the other hand, number of supply chain studies globally is high and Hohenstein et al. (2014) predicts it to grow in the future.

In this paper, the reviewed studies on supply chain practices in Indonesia covered a wide range of variant issues. Systematic literature review is applied as described by (Tranfield et al., 2003) as the main methodology to capture the recent literature. Firstly, we used exploratory search to get the literature related to supply chain in Indonesia written in English. The search includes a combination of several words to gather research papers published in peer-reviewed journals. Search terms are applied to titles, abstracts, and keywords of the articles to obtain the most relevant studies. We used character “*” at the end of some search terms to expand the scope of the search since different words may be used for the same concept such as “collaborati*” to gather research on both collaboration and collaborative.