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Supply strategies for build‐to‐order: managing global auto operations
Joe Miemczyk, Mickey HowardVehicle manufacturer “CarCo” has spent decades developing its supply strategy based on customer ordered production. Yet the combination of an over‐crowded European market and the…
Recycling calls for revaluation
Maria Huge Brodin, Helén AndersonThe purpose of this paper is to develop the value concept for recycling contexts.
The challenges of supply strategy selection in a project environment: evidence from UK naval shipbuilding
Joe Sanderson, Andrew CoxThere is a view that firms should decide between a lean or agile approach to supply management primarily on the basis of whether their product offering is “functional”…
Using e‐procurement applications to achieve integration: what role does firm size play?
Dawn H. Pearcy, Larry C. GiuniperoThe purpose of this research is to empirically investigate the role of firm size in the use of e‐procurement applications that vary in their ability to facilitate supply chain…
Benefits, barriers, and bridges to effective supply chain management
Stanley E. Fawcett, Gregory M. Magnan, Matthew W. McCarterPurpose – The purpose of this article is to provide academics and practitioners a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the benefits, barriers, and bridges to successful…
The impact of collaborative store ordering on shelf availability
Katerina Pramatari, Panagiotis MiliotisThis paper aims to focus on the store ordering and replenishment practices which appear to be the major cause behind the problem of out‐of‐stock situations. A collaborative store…
Facilitating learning and knowledge transfer through supplier development
Mihalis GiannakisThis paper aims to explore how supplier development programmes can be adapted to create value for organisations through generation and transfer of knowledge between supply chain…
Barriers to the adoption of online supply chain solutions in small and medium enterprises
Norm Archer, Shan Wang, Claire KangThe objective of this paper is to identify and measure the perceived importance of barriers in the SME community to the adoption of internet business procurement and supply chain…
Value chain analysis in the UK beef foodservice sector
Mark Francis, David Simons, Michael BourlakisPurpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the results from a UK government‐funded applied research programme on value chain analysis that examined the beef foodservice…
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