Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 100 Issue 3

Supply chain management in theory and practice: a passing fad or a fundamental change?

Charu Chandra, Sameer Kumar

Supply chain management is a major issue in many industries as firms realize the importance of creating an integrated relationship with their suppliers and customers. Managing the…

Enterprise resource planning: the emerging organizational value systems

Atul Gupta

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is a set of applications that automate finance and human resource departments and help manufacturers handle jobs such as order processing and…

Quality, competitiveness and development in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Tigineh Mersha

Increased liberalization of international trade that resulted from negotiations at the Uruguay Roundtable of 1995 has brought pressure to bear on Sub‐Saharan African (SSA…

Data warehousing, technology assessment and management

Catherine Ma, David C. Chou, David C. Yen

Data warehousing is the technological trend for the corporate decision support process. This article investigates the current business environment of the data warehouse, including…

Inter‐functional spread of quality in manufacturing

Purnendu Mandal

Very little is known of the pattern of spread of quality initiatives and their implementation amongst various functional areas in manufacturing organisations. The knowledge of the…