The adoption of inventory management practices and their relationship with the enterprise-wide adoption of information systems are empirically evaluated. Univariate and multivariate statistical analyses of survey responses indicate a strong enterprise-wide emphasis on materials requirements...

Customer service, based on economical logistics operations across the supply chain, is key to the realization of sustainable levels of profitability in Internet retailing. concentrating on inventory and product-release operations, an empirical simulation model suggests that inventory...

Logistics services and their providers are helping intermediaries add value to Internet supply chains in ways that are not always immediately obvious. Thus, it is not surprising that there is confusion among academics and practitioners about how best to extract value from such services and...

Time and form postponement are key to the cost-effective fulfillment of product demand when market volatility is high. Using data from U.S. manufacturing firms, an empirical model suggests that the implementation of time postponement supports the adoption of form postponement. In turn, form...