Smart supply chain management and bibliometric analysis on field literature

The starting point and purpose of the thesis is to determine which concepts and themes the field of supply chain develop academically in terms of its interaction with smart systems in the context of industry 4.0. With the bibliometric analysis method, academic articles and papers published in the Web of Science database were examined by the co-word method and the main themes and the relationships between these themes were determined. In addition, visual mapping was carried out by clustering the obtained themes. As a result of the analysis, a hypothetical conceptualization was made according to the determined clusters and the sub-themes in these clusters. The thesis work consists of three parts. The first chapter focuses on how the change in the supply chain has matured in the context of industrial revolutions. In the second part, the structure and content of the smart supply chain phenomenon are explained. The third section includes the bibliometric analysis for the smart supply chain area. Following this, in the light of the findings, there are subsections of conclusion and discussion. Keywords: Smart supply chain, supply chain 4.0, electronic supply chain, digital supply chain, bibliometric analysis, vosviewer,