A triadic longitudinal assessment of multiple supply chain participants’ performance and the extended enterprise concept

PurposeSupply chain management (SCM) proficiency is generally associated with superior business performance. Yet, SCM research continues to focus predominantly on the performance of individual firms, rather than on the collective performance of multiple supply chain participants as espoused by the extended enterprise (EE) concept. In response to calls for quantitative studies that examine the collective performance of multiple supply chain participants, this research study compares the combined performance of triads comprising focal firms recognized for their relative SCM proficiency and their upstream (supplier) and downstream (customer) supply chain partners with that of their close industry competitors' triads.Design/methodology/approachThe triadic, longitudinal examination of multiple supply chain participants' collective performance utilized archival financial data of the period 2007–2017 from the Compustat database and the supply chain (SPLC) function of Bloomberg.FindingsFindings of this study indicated that supply chain triads that included focal firms recognized for their relative SCM proficiency experienced significantly lower sales and general administrative expenses and significantly higher productivity, return on assets and profitability over time than their close industry competitors' triads. However, contrary to expectations, the performance advantages identified did not extend to revenue growth.Research limitations/implicationsSupply chain triads cannot fully represent entire supply chains or EEs. However, this study’s triadic analysis can be viewed as a practically achievable proxy for further validating the EE concept. Moreover, based on assertions that triadic studies are suitable for SCM research and on empirical studies that consistently show individual firms recognized for their relative SCM proficiency outperform competitors, the authors contend that the study’s findings appropriately corroborate the value of the EE concept.Practical implicationsBecause such empirical evidence is so rare, the consistent, collective performance advantages identified in this study should be highly significant to managers.Originality/valueRobust, longitudinal evidence that supply chain triads which include focal firms recognized for relative SCM proficiency collectively outperform their close industry competitors' triads extends generally accepted associations between SCM proficiency and business performance, suggesting that the application of extended resource-based view (ERBV) in supply chain contexts warrants further examination and further substantiates the efficacy of the EE concept.

A Preventive Multi-agent based Policy for Distributed Hardware Resource Balancing

The success of a business, especially a multi-site extended enterprise, depends on the good management of all its distributed resources. It is difficult for a company to be successful if it does not have a reliable and optimal management of resources by avoiding overstocking of certain resources on a site Sitem ∈ E, and at the same time, the sub-storing of the same resources on another site Sitep ∈ E. In both cases, there is a lack of profit. In this paper, we will try to resolve this situation, by the proposal of an architecture based on the cooperative multi-agent systems paradigm combined with the Contract-Net protocol. We bring in an intelligent agent whose role is to warn in advance and for each item itemi ∈ Sitem, the coming of breakdowns and stock excesses by balancing the level of inter-site availability by a flow of resources of the same itemi by calling on the other E sites whose levels are in over-storage or under-storage.

COMPLEMENTARY ASPECTS METHODOLOGY BALANCED DEVELOPMENT OF INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES

Topicality. The current tendencies functioning enterprises of industry Ukraine, actualize the questions connected with the solution of problems their balanced development from point view necessity of ensuring the process reproduction of their productive capital. Degree of depreciation fixed assets industrial enterprises in recent years is almost 77% (76,9%), the balance of financial results is negative - 181360,9 million UAH. The percentage of unprofitable enterprises ranges from 27-37%. Aim and tasks. The aim of the article is researched and developed complementary aspects methodology balanced development, in particular its principles and essential characteristics. Research results. Author defines and presents principles of balanced development an industrial enterprise, as the key rules of activity to be respected by entities (owners, managers, managers, workers), which will ensure the expanded reproduction of its productive capital (balanced development), using its internal reserves and external opportunities . essential characteristics of balanced development developed and defined as the main, defining processes, which are caused by systemic connections of external and internal environment enterprise and tendencies of their development, which must be carried out or carried out by subjects of the system (owners, managers, specialists, employees) to ensure extended enterprise reproduction process. Conclusion. Despite deformations in the industrial complex Ukraine, and destructive processes that have arisen as a result of economic crises, the country in its innovative and sustainable development should rely on the basic industrial sectors, which today have some advantages. Therefore, the processes of ensuring balanced development of industrial enterprises are still the most relevant for state, owners, managers and need further scientific development to put them into practice.

Development of the critical success decision criteria for an equitable order sharing in an extended enterprise

PurposeThis study identifies and ranks the appropriate critical success decision criteria (CSDC) for the bulk order distribution (sharing) amongst multiple manufacturers (suppliers) working as an extended enterprise (EE).Design/methodology/approachThe study deploys a qualitative approach to generate the appropriate decision criteria. The balanced scorecard and Pareto's chart (using Minitab® version 18) were used for gathering and analysing the pertinent criteria.FindingsThe process of evaluating and selecting the right manufacturers is essential. Manufacturer (supplier) selection is no longer decided solely based on cost/price criterion; currently, the quality and delivery criteria prevail. Additional incorporated criteria include price/cost, technical capability, production facilities and capacity, customer satisfaction and impression, geographical location, management and organisation, financial position, environmental concern, performance history, repair service, information technology and communication systems, procedural compliance, labour relation record, reputation, flexibility or diversification, attitude, operating controls, business desire, packaging ability, past business records, trust and loyalty, training aids, complaint handling service, warranties and claim policies, reciprocal arrangements, research and development and innovation, modern slavery concern, sustainable capability, collaborative/partnership and responsiveness. The study proposed a conceptual framework of an EE alongside how manufacturers working as a single virtual entity can consider the supply chain operations reference (SCOR®) model.Research limitations/implicationsThe identified CSDC are suitable for order allocation to domestic manufacturers. The deployed approaches could be extended to the mixed and quantitative approaches for increasing the generalisability.Originality/valueThe study establishes the pertinent CSDC that are important to execute equitable order distribution to manufacturers in an EE framework.

Urban logístics: origin of a strategy for creating shared value

The city is the natural epicenter of a nation's economy. In it coexist not only a large number of extended enterprise but also a large part of the population of a country. Hence, stakeholders in the extended company as a socio-economic system based on the environment, should ensure that it is sustainable and enduring over time. For this reason, this article presents the design of a Win-Win business strategy, supported by a coordination mechanism through collaborative and cooperative contracts, based on the joint inventory in conditions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, for an urban environment of an extended enterprise of shared economy. As a result, the efficient loading unit as a mechanism for creating shared value balances the technical-economic efficiency, between the contrasting make to stock and make to order strategies.