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The Scope and Span of Supply Chain Management

Mejza, Michael C.; Wisner, Joel D. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 12 (2001) 2, pp. 37-55

Studies on supply chain management suggest that the scope of business processes being coordinated across supply chains is broad. However, little empirical evidence exists that corroborates such claims. In this study executives randomly selected from a diverse array of industries were surveyed to...

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Efficient consumer response (ECR): a survey of the Australian grocery industry

Harris, John K.; Swatman, Paula M.C.; Kurnia, Sherah - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 4 (1999) 1, pp. 35-42

Efficient consumer response (ECR) is a supply chain management strategy which attempts to address the inefficiencies that have led to excessive inventory and unnecessary costs at all levels within the grocery industry supply chain. Although originating in the USA, ECR has also attracted...

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The Supply Chain Management Processes

Croxton, Keely L.; García‐Dastugue, Sebastián J.; … - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 12 (2001) 2, pp. 13-36

Increasingly, supply chain management is being recognized as the management of key business processes across the network of organizations that comprise the supply chain. While many have recognized the benefits of a process approach to managing the business and the supply chain, most are vague...

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Time compression in the supply chain

Beesley, Adrian - In: Industrial Management & Data Systems 96 (1996) 2, pp. 12-16

Claims that time compression is a powerful source of competitive advantage that remains relatively underutilized in UK busineses. Details the research undertaken by the Warwick Manufacturing Group’s time compression programme (TCP) on the applications of time‐based approaches with a number...

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New perspectives on construction supply chain integration

Dainty, Andrew R.J.; Millett, Sarah J.; Briscoe, Geoffrey H. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 6 (2001) 4, pp. 163-173

, little attention has been paid to the integration of small and medium‐size enterprises (SMEs) in the subcontractor and …‐engineered construction supply chains. It was found that significant barriers exist to supplier integration within the construction sector … must make greater efforts to extol the mutual benefits of supplier integration to SMEs if significant performance …

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Supply chain integration: vision or reality?

Neuman, John; Samuels, Christopher - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 1 (1996) 2, pp. 7-10

in the logistics chain. Reveals widespread support for the idea of supply chain integration, but little evidence of …

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JIT, system integration and customer service

White, Richard E.; Pearson, John N. - In: International Journal of Physical Distribution & … 31 (2001) 5, pp. 313-333

service policies and integration of these policies into the organizational decision making process. This paper discusses the …, process and information) provide the mechanisms for integration of the various activities across the supply chain. Porter …

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The Role of Just‐In‐Time in Supply Chain Management

Vokurka, Robert J.; Lummus, Rhonda R. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 11 (2000) 1, pp. 89-98

In today's competitive environment, markets are becoming more international, dynamic, and customer‐driven. Customers are demanding more variety, better quality and service, including both reliability and faster delivery. Technological developments are occurring at a faster pace, resulting in...

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Demand Satisfaction Communities: New Operational Relationships in the Information Age

Hewitt, Fred - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 11 (2000) 2, pp. 9-20

The recent emergence of new organizational forms, for which the term demand satisfaction communities (DSC) is proposed, raises the question as to whether supply chain management practices are about to become obsolete. By tracking the history of practices and comparing them with those required to...

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Developing a Framework for Supply Chain Management

Spens, Karen M.; Bask, Anu H. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 13 (2002) 1, pp. 73-88

integration do these supply chain processes require? This article is based on an extended conceptual framework developed by …

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