International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 30 Issue 3/4

Factors for strategic evaluation of enterprise information technologies

Joseph Sarkis, R.P. Sundarraj

In the last decade, we have witnessed companies investing in financially and laboriously expensive enterprise information technologies (EITs) that unify the internal and external…

An IT/IS acquisition and justification model for supply‐chain management

Srinivas Talluri

Supply‐chain management (SCM) involves coordinating and managing all the activities from raw materials procurement to the delivery of the final product to the customer. A key…

The supply‐side of IT outsourcing: the trend towards mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures

Wendy Currie

Explores the supply‐side of the global IT outsourcing marketplace. Argues that companies should seek to understand the strategic positioning of IT suppliers. In recent years, the…

Leveraging the power of the Internet for optimal supplier sourcing

David Tucker, Laurie Jones

Intelligent software agents offer the potential to unleash the power of the Internet to optimise the process of supplier sourcing. Aims to promote an awareness in the…

ICT‐enabled coordination of dynamic supply webs

Ellen Christiaanse, Kuldeep Kumar

Increasingly, two key trends – value‐ and cost‐conscious customers, and globalization of markets and supply sources – are shifting the competitive focus from the competitive…

Supply‐chain management across the Internet

Gary Graham, Glenn Hardaker

The concepts of supply‐chain design and management have come to the fore, owing to the ever‐increasing complexity of the systems driving buyer‐supplier relations in both…

Supply‐chain re‐engineering using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems: an analysis of a SAP R/3 implementation case

Majed Al‐Mashari, Mohamed Zairi

The development of enterprise resource planning (ERP) packages has created an opportunity to re‐engineer supply chains within and beyond the organizational scope. Most notably…

The effects of information system infrastructure and process improvements on supply‐chain time performance

Jayanth Jayaram, Shawnee K. Vickery, Cornelia Droge

An empirical study of 57 top‐tier suppliers to the North American automotive industry examined the direct and complementary effects of information system infrastructure (ISI) and…

The importance of information technology in port terminal operations

M. Kia, E. Shayan, F. Ghotb

Information technology has become an essential part of the rapid and accurate transfer and processing of enormous volumes of data processed in international transport firms and…

Electronic commerce to support construction design and supply‐chain management: a research note

Tony Elliman, Graham Orange

Looks at the changing nature of the construction supply industry and the role of electronic commerce in the evolved market. With the emphasis shifting from supply‐ to…