Understanding the Role of Digital Technologies in Supply Chain Risks Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-146
Author(s):  
Jiayan Yang ◽  
Vikas Kumar ◽  
Banu Ekren ◽  
Evgeny Kuzmin
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Supply Chain Risks

Understanding the relationships between global supply chain risk and supply chain resilience: the role of mitigating strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juneho Um ◽  
Neungho Han
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Supply Chain Risk ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Chain Resilience ◽  
Supply Chain Risks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This study aims to theoretically hypothesise and empirically explore the relationships amongst global supply chain risks, supply chain resilience and mitigating strategies. Design/methodology/approach The study adopts supply chain resilience as a dynamic capability and resilience capability as a mediating prerequisite in addressing supply chain risk in sourcing, manufacturing and delivery. The moderating role of diverse mitigating strategies is tested to enhance supply chain resilience. Data collected via survey was used for structural equation modelling and additional tests to explore appropriate mitigating strategies for differing risk environments. Findings Achieving better supply chain resilience capability plays an important mediating role between supply chain risks and resilience, while the relationships depend on the performance of seven mitigating strategies. Research limitations/implications The findings contribute to the theoretical development of risk management issues in global supply chains by suggesting the role of supply chain resilience capability. Practical implications The findings offer managerial guidance on how to mitigate the global supply chain risk through the appropriate practice of strategies to strengthen supply chain resilience in an uncertain environment. Originality/value This is the first empirical research examining the impact of mitigating strategies on supply chain resilience. The results provide practical implications for managing uncertain events and offering theoretical insight for future research in supply chain resilience.

The Potential of Social Media in Emerging Supply Chain Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-58
Author(s):  
Nermine M. Khalifa ◽  
Mona M. Abd Elghany ◽  
Marwa M. Abd Elghany
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Supply Chain Risks

This paper discusses the potential role of social media in managing supply chain activities for business in the developing countries and how to face unexpected challenges in these countries. Since there a limited research in the field of use social media in the supply chain, proposing the use of such platforms for third-world business might enable these enterprises to survive globally. Exploratory case studies performed by authors to drill down and figure out the issues faced by their business and how these businesses are trying to survive. Case studies are used to learn more about studied issues and unfold the hidden one. The study proposes a model of how the socialized platforms could give more visibility and knowledge discovery tool along supply chain channel. The model is extended that incorporates supply chain challenges in developing countries and the significant role of social media in proposing solutions. The proposed model will merge to business operating in developing countries context. Since the adoption of ERP systems was not enough to optimize business performance there, the proposed value of using social media as the most affordable platform will enable transparent supply chain activities along the integrated pipeline. The study provides the interrelated perspective of supply chain challenges and proposed solutions to overcome such issues. Many perceived values had been acknowledged of business such as more transparency with customers, prompt shipment notification or inventory drop, minimize supply chain risks and manage unfrozen external factors, working closely with multi-tier partners, optimize data exchange on day-to-day transactions. Social media could alert supply chain partners with potential risks. Prediction markets are proposed to adapt for better management.

Smart supply chain and firm performance: the role of digital technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdullah Fahad AlMulhim
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to explore the impact of digital transformation on firm performance with the help of smart technologies.Design/methodology/approachThis study used a valid and well-structured survey to collect data from 460 respondents from 150 Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Saudi Arabia. In order to analyze this data, SmartPLS software was used.FindingsThe empirical results of this study found that the digital transformation has no significant direct impact on firm performance. Therefore, in this situation, smart technologies play an important role in developing the link between digital transformation and firm performance.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the digital supply chain from SMEs' perspective by investigating the mediating role of smart technologies between digital transformation and firm performance.

scholarly journals The role of collaborative interorganizational relationships in supply chain risks: a systematic review using a social capital perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anis Daghar ◽  
Leila Alinaghian ◽  
Neil Turner
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Interorganizational Relationships ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Demand Information ◽  
Supply Chain Risks ◽  
Social Capital Perspective ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is systematically review, synthesize and critically evaluate the current research status on the role of collaborative interorganizational relationships (CIRs) in supply chain risks (SCRs) from a social capital perspective and provide an organizing lens for future scholarship in this area. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a systematic literature review approach to investigate 126 articles from 27 peer-reviewed journals between 1995 and 2020. Findings This paper investigates supply chain CIRs using a social capital perspective to explain the role of structural, relational and cognitive capital that resides in these relationships in various SCRs (i.e. environmental, supply, manufacturing, demand, information, financial and transportation). The review reveals that the three social capital dimensions uniquely and both positively and negatively affect different SCRs. The findings further suggest that the perceived SCRs can influence the structural and relational capital. Practical implications This study calls for practitioners to consider the cognitive alignment with their supply network partners, their relational investments, as well as the interorganizational processes and systems in managing and alleviating SCRs. Originality/value This review offers a theoretical articulation of how various aspects of CIRs affect SCRs. Specifically, this study extends the existing understanding of the role of social capital in SCRs through offering a synthesis of dominant findings and discourses, and avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Customer Experience as the Driving Force for Supply Chains Digital Transformation

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Nowicka
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Supply Chain Configuration ◽  
Improve Supply Chain

Supply chain managers constantly look for the resources that are able to enhance and improve supply chain competitiveness. This competitiveness is analysed mainly in the light of cost, time and quality of the customers’ service delivered by the supply chain management. Today one of the most important resource impacting on driving business in the competitive way are the digital technologies. This is mainly due to the fact that digital technologies are strongly changing the innovation level of the company and its performance. Therefore it is worth to analyse the influence of digital technologies on supply chain competitiveness in terms of cost, time and quality. The aim of this paper is to present the most important areas that are impacted by the digital technologies in improving of supply chain competitiveness. The results of the empirical research, conducted among 120 supply chain managers in 2018, show that the aspect of quality is the weakest point in terms of digital innovation impacting on supply chain competitiveness. Thus in the second part of the paper the analyses of the role of the customers experience have been done to understand the new approach to the role of digital technologies. The digital innovation is impacting the whole customers’ journey during their relation not only with the company, but with the supply chain – that is actually the organization of several independent companies. In this way digital technologies starting to be a central point of supply chain configuration for improving its competitiveness.

The Role of Digital Technologies in the Resilience of Healthcare Supply Chain

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Bertolin Furstenau ◽  
Carolina Melecardi Zani ◽  
Stela Xavier Terra ◽  
Michele Kremer Sott ◽  
Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Digital Technologies
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