Supply chain management, electronic collaboration tools and organizational innovativeness

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Lefebvre ◽  
Luc Cassivi ◽  
Louis Lefebvre ◽  
Pierre-Majorique Léger ◽  
Pierre Hadaya
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Electronic Collaboration ◽  
Collaboration Tools ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
The Impact

The paper focuses on three critical but under-investigated issues for supply chain management: (i) the inherent dynamics of a multi-layered supply chain, (ii) the deployment, use and relative efficiency of e-collaboration tools within the supply chain, and (iii) the impact of these tools on the innovativeness of individual firms acting at different layers of the supply chain. The research design covers multiple layers of one supply chain and provides empirical evidence obtained from a multiplecase study and an electronic mail survey. Results point to the intrinsic relationships between supply chain structure and the deployment of e-collaboration tools. Further, results indicate that the level of perceived efficiency of e-collaboration tools is lower at the upstream end of the supply chain and that supply chain execution (SCE) e-collaboration tools are more efficient than the supply chain planning (SCP) tools. The overall findings also suggest that e-collaboration tools can improve supply chain members' ability to innovate in terms of processes and relationships but not yet in terms of products.

Real World Applications

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Ibibia K. Dabipi ◽  
Judy A. Perkins ◽  
Tierney Moore
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Real World ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Total Asset ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
End To End ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Over the years the supply chain industry has been transforming to improve the end-to-end (production to delivery) process. Supply chain management (SCM) allows various industries to oversee and better handle how their product is manufactured and delivered. It allows them to track and identify the location of the product and to be more efficient in delivery. Integrating total asset visibility (TAV) technology into the supply chain structure can provide excellent visibility of a product. This kind of visibility complemented with various packaging schemes can assist in accommodating optimization strategies for visualizing the movement of a product throughout the entire supply chain pipeline. The chapter will define SCM, discuss TAV, review how transportation as well as optimization impacts SCM and TAV, and examine the role of packaging in the context of SCM and TAV.

scholarly journals Supply Chain Management Agroindustri : Sebuah Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dedet Deperiky ◽  
Santosa Santosa ◽  
Rika Ampuh Hadiguna ◽  
Nofialdi Nofialdi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Agroindustry needs further attention from the relationship between supply chain actors to improve efficiency in terms of partnerships and the application of modern technology today. Supply chain management in agroindustry emphasizes a management approach to a network of facilities and distribution channels that includes procurement of materials, production, and delivery of agroindustry products to end consumers. The research methodology used is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method, which is the literature review method that identifies, evaluates, and interprets all findings on a research topic, to answer research questions. The results of the study imply that in order to manage the agroindustry supply chain the entire supply chain structure must be well understood by focusing more on the quality of external relations with supply chain actors and who focus actor on partnership, trust and sustainability in conducting agroindustry supply chain activities. Agroindustry managers must investigate why they must manage, what must be managed and how to manage agroindustry supply chains. To explore the agroindustry supply chain that a manager must integrated the system, examine the nature, linkages and dependencies between business operations in the agroindustry supply chain. Suggestions from researchers that this four-step approach to meeting sustainability must be implemented in the agroindustry supply chain, and optimalized or later all organizations will adopt the SCM concept in achieving competitive advantage.

Teaching Supply Chain Management Using an Innovative Practical Game

2020 ◽  
pp. 837-856
Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Bill Of Materials ◽  
Competitive Game ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This paper presents a new practical game which helps undergraduate students to understand how the concept of supply chain management (SCM) works. The game uses a simple supply chain structure incorporating three entities of the supply chain: supplier, plant, and customer. The game employs a set of toy building blocks such as LEGO® blocks and has the rules of the game, responsibility of each player, product descriptions and bill of materials. This competitive game is used supply chain cost as the measuring to determine the winner team of the game and the Bloom's taxonomy as guidelines to develop the assessment testing based on the learning objectives of courses. This proposed board game has been tested by many undergraduate students who are taking SCM and Logistics Management courses. The results show that the students who played the game reached the higher scores of assessment testing than students who didn't play the game. Furthermore, most students have also positive view about this game.

Teaching Supply Chain Management Using an Innovative Practical Game

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Bill Of Materials ◽  
Competitive Game ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This paper presents a new practical game which helps undergraduate students to understand how the concept of supply chain management (SCM) works. The game uses a simple supply chain structure incorporating three entities of the supply chain: supplier, plant, and customer. The game employs a set of toy building blocks such as LEGO® blocks and has the rules of the game, responsibility of each player, product descriptions and bill of materials. This competitive game is used supply chain cost as the measuring to determine the winner team of the game and the Bloom's taxonomy as guidelines to develop the assessment testing based on the learning objectives of courses. This proposed board game has been tested by many undergraduate students who are taking SCM and Logistics Management courses. The results show that the students who played the game reached the higher scores of assessment testing than students who didn't play the game. Furthermore, most students have also positive view about this game.

Supply Chain Financing: Moving beyond Source, Make, and Deliver

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale S. Rogers ◽  
Rudolf Leuschner ◽  
Thomas Y. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
Supply Chain Finance ◽  
Supply Chain Financing ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Supply chain management has been focused on how to source, make, and deliver products throughout the world. This chapter proposes the addition of one more function to that list—to fund. As a result of technology supporting financial firms, such as banks and financial technology firms, the supply chain has become the least expensive source of capital available to a firm. Corporate executives increasingly rely on the supply chain as a source of capital. A typical supply chain has three major flows: product, information, and finances. These three flows can vary in importance depending on the environment and supply chain structure. Most of the supply chain management literature focuses on products and information flows and pays minimal attention to the financial side of supply chain management. This chapter views supply chain financing as a bigger concept than the concept commonly known as supply chain finance. Supply chain financing focuses on how to use the supply chain to fund the organization and how to use the organization to fund the supply chain. The goal of supply chain financing is to ensure liquidity within supply chains by helping the buyer and supplier organizations conserve their own capital by injecting liquidity from sources that previously were not known or available.

Supply Chain Management under Mass Customization

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 2044-2047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Open Network ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Definition Of

Traditional supply chain is established on mass production while supply chain under mass customization is established on mass customization. In the paper, Definition of Supply Chain Management is introduced; Comparison between Traditional Supply Chain and Supply Chain under Mass Customization, State of the field are all illustrated. Under mass customization, in order to adapt to customer driving manufacturing and the demands of enterprise alliance, manufacturers and major enterprises will directly contact with customers to weaken or even eliminate the function of distributors and retail dealers, which will lead to the transformation of the supply chain structure to open network structures made up of suppliers, manufacturers, core enterprises and customers.

scholarly journals Mapping domain characteristics influencing Analytics initiatives: The example of Supply Chain Analytics

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Tino Herden
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: Analytics research is increasingly divided by the domains Analytics is applied to. Literature offers little understanding whether aspects such as success factors, barriers and management of Analytics must be investigated domain-specific, while the execution of Analytics initiatives is similar across domains and similar issues occur. This article investigates characteristics of the execution of Analytics initiatives that are distinct in domains and can guide future research collaboration and focus. The research was conducted on the example of Logistics and Supply Chain Management and the respective domain-specific Analytics subfield of Supply Chain Analytics. The field of Logistics and Supply Chain Management has been recognized as early adopter of Analytics but has retracted to a midfield position comparing different domains.Design/methodology/approach: This research uses Grounded Theory based on 12 semi-structured Interviews creating a map of domain characteristics based of the paradigm scheme of Strauss and Corbin.Findings: A total of 34 characteristics of Analytics initiatives that distinguish domains in the execution of initiatives were identified, which are mapped and explained. As a blueprint for further research, the domain-specifics of Logistics and Supply Chain Management are presented and discussed.Originality/value: The results of this research stimulates cross domain research on Analytics issues and prompt research on the identified characteristics with broader understanding of the impact on Analytics initiatives. The also describe the status-quo of Analytics. Further, results help managers control the environment of initiatives and design more successful initiatives.

scholarly journals Impact of Gender and Expatriation Choice on Career Paths in Supply Chain Management: Evidence from Master of Science Graduates

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 6907
Author(s):  
Salomée Ruel ◽  
Anicia Jaegler
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Career Progression ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
International Graduates ◽  
The Impact

Zinn et al. (2018) and Esper et al. (2020) call for more research on gender diversity in Supply Chain Management, and our study responds to that call. We analyze the career path of 1081 international graduates from a higher degree program in Supply Chain Management from 2000 to 2017 to assess the impact of gender and expatriation choice on hierarchical progression. We explore two variables that may affect graduates’ career paths, namely, their gender and their expatriation choices, and compare their relative importance. Our analysis shows that there were, on average, 33.5% women recruited in the MSc and that this has not significantly changed over the years. It also shows that gender significantly influences the number of years spent at each level in the career hierarchy and the level reached. Regarding expatriation choice, this variable has some significant impacts on career progression. Finally, statistics indicate that gender has a far greater influence on career progression than expatriation choice. Overall, this study proves the difficulties for women in enjoying the same career progression as men in the field of Supply Chain Management.

scholarly journals An Exploration of the Critical Risk Factors in Sustainable Telecom Services: An Analysis of Indian Telecom Industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 445
Author(s):  
Wen-Kuo Chen ◽  
Venkateswarlu Nalluri ◽  
Suresh Ma ◽  
Mei-Min Lin ◽  
Ching-Torng Lin
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain Management ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Different sources of risk factors can occur in sustainable supply chain management due to its complex nature. The telecommunication service firm cannot implement multiple improvement practices altogether to overcome the risk factors with limited resources. The industries should evaluate the relationship between risk factors and explore the determinants of improvement measures. The purpose of the present study is to identify and analyze critical risk factors (CRFs) for enhancing sustainable supply chain management practices in the Indian telecommunication industry using interpretive structural modelling (ISM). Risk factors are identified through a literature survey, and then with the help of experts, nine CRFs are identified using a fuzzy Delphi method (FDM). The relationship among these CRFs has been analyzed using ISM, and the driving and the dependence power of those CRFs are analyzed. Results indicate that both “government policies (laws and regulations)” and “the impact of rapid change in technology” are independent or key factors that affect the sustainability of the telecommunications supply chain. In addition, results provide significant managerial implications, including enhanced sustainability, and the government should build justice, fairness, open laws, certainties, and regulations to prevent risk in the telecommunications industry supply chain; service providers should monitor the rapidly evolving technologies and focus on technical learning and organizational capacity development to overcome the impact of technological changes. The contribution of this study is using a novel approach to establish a hierarchical structural model for an effective understanding of CRFs relationships and to explore decisive risk factors that can help telecom service providers to better plan and design effective improvement strategies to enhance sustainability supply chain management.

scholarly journals The Impact of Supply Chain Management on Financial Performance and Responsibility Accounting Agribusiness Case from Egypt

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Wahdan ◽  
Mohamed Ashraf Emam
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Financial Statements ◽  
Net Income ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Responsibility Accounting

This paper presents the impact of applying the supply chain management (SCM) on the agribusiness field to optimize productivity and decreasing cost which will have a direct impact on the net income of the organization. The main two research questions are: is there a significant impact of supply chain management on financial performance? and is there a significant relationship between supply chain management and financial performance as well as responsibility accounting? To answer the research questions, data was collected from financial statements of agribusiness case from Egypt and the survey was conducted. The findings of the study indicated that there is a significant impact of supply chain management on financial performance through enhancing the productivity, decreasing the cost and improving profitability. Moreover, applying the efficient supply chain management can improve the use of responsibility accounting through the efficient usage for the budget of the crop.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document