Supply Chain Challenges in Competitive World: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Manufacturing and Service Sectors

Abstract

This study is conducted to contribute insights into the literature on the supply chain challenges faced by manufacturing and service sectors research with a specific focus on future research opportunities to the academicians as well as professionals. A structured meta-literature review approach literally covering 90 literature reviews is opted. The scope of the study is to highlight the trends and research gaps via using the bibliographic network analysis, quantitative and qualitative content analysis. Research framework has been drawn to bring forth comprehensive understanding of the literature on supply chain challenges in the context of community-based enterprises and altruism. Literature review results disclose that most common supply chain disruption in manufacturing and service sectors are technological improvements and scarcity of resources followed up with the lack of human resources, quality standardization, knowledge and awareness, operational costs, government support, deficiency in cashflows and cooperative collaboration. Supply chain challenges that are having least significant impact on business operation of companies literally are economic instability, demands of customer, decreased inventory levels, competitions and uncertainty, transparency and corruption as well as wastage of the material. Further conducive research can be done on strategies to overcome the supply chain sustainability challenges and impact of sustainability performance within context of the emerging economies, establish flexible supply chains and identifying barriers to supply chains is the second area of research and the third venue is designing meta-analysis with usage of conventional statistical techniques. This study presents meta-literature review of supply chain disruption research papers that are being published between January 2000 and October 2024.