Supply Chain Management: Volume 12 Issue 4

How to move supply chain beyond cleaning up after new product development

Remko van Hoek, Paul Chapman

Improving alignment between supply chain and new product development (NPD) can enhance market impact and revenue growth. Additionally, it can remove a lot of frustration for…

The need for wider supply chain management adoption: empirical results from Ireland

Bernd Huber, Edward Sweeney

This paper aims to provide empirical results which suggest that there is a need for more widespread adoption of supply chain management among Irish firms.

RFID: an enabler of supply chain operations

Mohsen Attaran

The desire to cut supply chain costs has made RFID technology one of today's most discussed retail technologies. Given the current implementation pace, the objective of this paper…

Supplier selection problem: integrating DEA with the approaches of total cost of ownership and AHP

Ramakrishnan Ramanathan

This paper seeks to propose a methodology to integrate the total cost of ownership (TCO) and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) approaches for selecting appropriate suppliers…

Aspects of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM): conceptual framework and empirical example

Göran Svensson

The objective of this paper is to describe and illustrate aspects of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM).

The effect of a buyer's market orientation on attitudinal loyalty toward a supplier: is dependence a moderator?

María José Sanzo, María Leticia Santos, Luis I. Álvarez, Rodolfo Vázquez

The aim of this study is to analyze in depth the possible influence of a firm's market orientation on its own attitudinal loyalty toward a supplier.

Complementary theories to supply chain management

Arni Halldorsson, Herbert Kotzab, Juliana H. Mikkola, Tage Skjøtt‐Larsen

The paper seeks to discuss and develop SCM as a scientific discipline using different theories from non‐logistics areas to explain inter‐organizational phenomena. It also attempts…

Becoming a 100 per cent e‐corporation: benefits of pursuing an e‐supply chain strategy

David Sammon, Paul Hanley

The objective of this paper is to present a case study of an organisation in pursuit of becoming a 100 per cent e‐corporation.

Performance measurement in agri‐food supply chains: a case study

Lusine H. Aramyan, Alfons G.J.M. Oude Lansink, Jack G.A.J. van der Vorst, Olaf van Kooten

Measurement of the performance of entire supply chains is an important issue because it allows for “tracking and tracing” of efficacy and efficiency failures and leads to more…