Business Networking Lessons Learned: Supply Chain Management at Riverwood International

2001 ◽  
pp. 111-119
Author(s):  
Elgar Fleisch ◽  
Hubert Österle ◽  
Robert Betts
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Business Networking

Supply Chain Thinking in Healthcare: Lessons and Outlooks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidia Betcheva ◽  
Feryal Erhun ◽  
Houyuan Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Problem Definition ◽  
Healthcare Organizations ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Managerial Implications

Problem definition: The lessons learned over decades of supply chain management provide an opportunity for stakeholders in complex systems, such as healthcare, to understand, evaluate, and improve their complicated and often inefficient ecosystems. Academic/practical relevance: The complexity in managing healthcare supply chains offers opportunities for important and impactful research avenues in key supply chain management areas such as coordination and integration (e.g., new care models), mass customization (e.g., the rise in precision medicine), and incentives (e.g., emerging reimbursement schemes), which might, in turn, provide insights relevant to traditional supply chains. We also put forward new perspectives for practice and possible research directions for the supply chain management community. Methodology: We provide a primer on supply chain thinking in healthcare, with a focus on healthcare delivery, by following a framework that is customer focused, systems based, and strategically orientated and that simultaneously considers clinical, operational, and financial dimensions. Our goal is to offer an understanding of how concepts and strategies in supply chain management can be applied and tailored to healthcare by considering the sector’s unique challenges and opportunities. Results: After identifying key healthcare stakeholders and their interactions, we discuss the main challenges facing healthcare services from a supply chain perspective and provide examples of how various supply chain strategies are being and can be used in healthcare. Managerial implications: By using supply chain thinking, healthcare organizations can decrease costs and improve the quality of care by uncovering, quantifying, and addressing inefficiencies.

Retrospective on the launch of IJPDLM – lessons for the future of logistics and supply chain management research

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Remko van Hoek
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Customer Orientation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Founding Editor ◽  
Bibliometric Review ◽  
Research In Education

PurposeThis paper offers a retrospective on the launch and first volumes of this journal. It describes the history of a unique period in our discipline when founding fathers in the US and UK collaborated with industry and each other to create a new field.Design/methodology/approachThe authors interviewed founding editor Professor Martin Christopher and coeditor in Chief Professor Doug Lambert, conducted a bibliometric review of the first volumes of the journal and informed the analysis by approaches taken in other retrospectives published in the journal. The authors also feature historical artifacts from the journal.FindingsThe editorial focus during the early days of the journal demonstrate how the roots of the field are in cost modeling and technical work but quickly moved toward customer orientation and managerial focus. The editorial approach during the early days of the journal was on innovative research and publishing, scholarship engaged with industry, a focus on relevance and industry impact as well as leveraging research in education.Originality/valueThere have been retrospectives on the journals most recent volumes but what the authors aim to do is to reflect upon the launch and the first volumes of the journal. The authors expand and further detail the timeline of the development of the logistics field. In the process, the authors identify several historical roots for topics of greater focus in logistics and supply chain management in later years. The authors also find that many of the essential approaches and lessons learned in the period leading up to the launch and shortly after the launch of the journal do not only capture the early development of the discipline it also offers an approach and model for scholarship worthy of consideration still today. On top of that, several of the lessons learned in that period hold high relevance still today and they imply part of the path forward for the discipline and the journal, the authors develop questions for future research and research and editorial strategies.

Agent-assisted supply chain management: Analysis and lessons learned

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Groves ◽  
John Collins ◽  
Maria Gini ◽  
Wolfgang Ketter
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Chain Management

An empirical investigation of the enablers in humanitarian supply chain management in India

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaurav Kabra ◽  
A. Ramesh
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Disaster Victims ◽  
Mountainous Regions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Humanitarian Supply Chain ◽  
Humanitarian Supply Chain Management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze the perception of stakeholders, i.e. disaster victims, volunteers and managers, who were involved in relief activities, toward the enablers in humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) with special emphasis on heart wrenching and deadliest disaster, that occurred in the Uttarakhand (a northern state in India) on June 14, 2013. Design/methodology/approach – A detailed case study of the recently disaster, that occurred in the Uttarakhand has been carried out to investigate the enablers associated with the HSCM and the data were collected from published literature and newspaper articles, semi-structured interviews with academic experts and practitioners, hypothesis were formulated and tested using analysis of variance. Findings – The findings of the study indicate that, there is no significant difference in the perception of disaster victims, volunteers and managers toward the enablers in HSCM in India. There is a strong need for more effective and efficient monitoring of over-exploitation of the mountainous regions, Geographic Information Systems mapping of the state and a separate disaster communication network. Research limitations/implications – The scope of study is limited to flash floods that occurred in the Uttarakhand. Extending the research on other types of disaster could be considered as the scope for further research. Practical implications – The paper investigates some of the enablers of HSCM and discusses some of the emerging issues and lessons learned from the disaster that occurred in the Uttarakhand, in managing future disasters in India and the other world. Originality/value – This paper presents the first attempt in India with its combination of field-based qualitative research and survey analysis to investigate the enablers of HSCM in India.

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