Purpose – The aim of this paper is to propose an innovative quantitative approach to measure visibility in outbound supply chains and to implement it in order to evaluate the current degree of visibility that focal companies operating in the apparel industry have on their supply chains....

Purpose Researchers ascertain that the more the activities of new product development (NPD) process are outsourced to partners, the higher the need for integration. The purpose of this paper is to study: the extent to which the amount of information shared with the partners during NPD projects...

In recent years, much attention has been devoted to the topic of supply chain visibility in the scientific literature. However, a thorough assessment of the benefits enabled by supply chain visibility has not yet been undertaken. This paper aims to provide a structured method and a set of...