Application of System Dynamics Simulation in Food Supply Chain: Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The food supply chain actor is complex. Many actors are involved, such as suppliers, manufacturers or producers, distribution, retailers and customers. The number of actors is interdependent with each other. Additionally, system dynamic is one of the simulation methodologies capturing the holistic, nonlinear and multiloop systems. This research aims to capture the overview of academic studies about system dynamic simulation' applications in the food supply chain. The methodology that has been used in this research is using systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis method. There are five phases to the research process. The first step is searching criteria and sourcing the identification. Then, filtering the period and language used. The final step is the analysis of data and interpretation. The analysis of this research will find the predominant contributing articles, authors, affiliations, and Keyword. VOS viewer will portray the systematic graphical and clustering data. Research grouping will be beneficial in analyzing the development of simulation innovations, especially in the future research group in the food supply chain field. Moreover, this research will classify the application of system dynamics simulation in the content of the type of food product in the food supply chain, the research goal (social, economic, environmental), and the stakeholder engagement in the supply chain. Then, the researchers and practitioners shall be able to explore the topic initiatives that have the hallmarks of future developments.