Sustainable Supply Chain Performance Improvement for Patchouli Oil’s Agroindustry: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda

Abstract

Patchouli oil is an essential oil that has become one of the agricultural leading commodities in Indonesia. The problems that occurs in the patchouli oil agroindustry is the existence of a complex and long supply chain system. An alternative problem solutions are needed includes supply chain improvement models and strategies. This article summarizes some previous research on essential oil and assessment of sustainable supply chain’s performance. The subject of publication evaluation used a systematic literature review that applied the meta-analysis methods (PRISMA), with a total of 131 articles reviewed in more depth. Sustainability studies are divided into four groups ranging from the one to four pillar sustainability. The level of comparative and criticize resulted that over the last ten years, the percentage of research that deals with sustainable supply chains was still very minimal and the commodities of essential oil were not included in it. Patchouli oil research has been carried out in the fields of product benefits, production improvement, process technology, and product composition or characteristics. Research developments have not yet been discussed on the topic of strategies to improve the performance of sustainable patchouli oil supply chains.