Supply Chain Management: Volume 12 Issue 1

Selecting the right planning approach for a product

Riikka Kaipia, Jan Holmström

The purpose of this research paper is to offer a solution to differentiate supply chain planning for products with different demand features and in different life‐cycle phases.

The impact of operational quality: a supply chain view

Vijay R. Kannan, Keah Choon Tan

The paper seeks to examine the impact of operational quality management practices within the supply chain.

Can the SME survive the supply chain challenges?

Terje I. Vaaland, Morten Heide

The purpose of this paper is to focus on small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and the extent to which they are prepared to meet SCM challenges through the use of modern…

A collaborative product commerce approach to value‐based health plan purchasing

Eric W. Ford, Julia A. Hughes

Collaborative product commerce (CPC) techniques are being applied with greater frequency in the health care sector. The purpose of this paper is to explore the potential barriers…

Linking products with supply chains: testing Fisher's model

Erik Selldin, Jan Olhager

The paper seeks to test the relationships among product design and supply chain design, with specific reference to the product‐supply chain model by Fisher.

Measuring performance within the supply chain of a large scale project

Chandika Diran Wickramatillake, S.C. Lenny Koh, A. Gunasekaran, Subramanium Arunachalam

The purpose of this paper is to explore the performance measurement methodology used by a real case company, namely Vanderlande Industries Ltd, for cost and progress capture for…

Vegetables procurement by Asian supermarkets: a transaction cost approach

Ruerd Ruben, Dave Boselie, Hualiang Lu

The paper seeks to understand the conditions that motivate Asian supermarkets' choices for vegetable sourcing through wholesale procurement or preferred supplier systems.

Emerald at 40

Rebecca Marsh