Supply Chain Management: Volume 13 Issue 3

In pursuit of a sustainable supply chain: insights from Westpac Banking Corporation

Byron Keating, Ali Quazi, Anton Kriz, Tim Coltman

The aim of this paper is to provide clues to industry and academia on how best to approach the challenge of developing a sustainable supply chain.

Supply chain visibility: lost in translation?

Vernon Francis

The purpose of this paper is to describe miscommunication about the ubiquitous term “supply chain visibility” (SCV), to propose a precise definition for it and identify its…

Drivers for the participation of small and medium‐sized suppliers in green supply chain initiatives

Su‐Yol Lee

This paper aims to describe what facilitates small and medium‐sized suppliers in participating in green supply chain initiatives. These initiatives are inter‐organizational…

Improving small farmer participation in export marketing channels: perceptions of US fresh produce importers

Julie V. Stanton, Tim J. Burkink

The purpose of this paper is to identify important elements of a strategy to facilitate small farmer participation in international supply chains for fresh produce.

Creating satisfaction in the demand‐supply chain: the buyers' perspective

Jesús J. Cambra‐Fierro, Yolanda Polo‐Redondo

The purpose of this research paper is to analyze the concept of satisfaction in firm‐supplier relationships.

Determining a cost‐effective customer service level

Mariah M. Jeffery, Renee J. Butler, Linda C. Malone

The purpose of this paper is to provide an approach for determining inventory levels that result in a minimum cost customer service level for specific products based on their…

Relative effects of design, integration and information sharing on supply chain performance

Bülent Sezen

The aim of this study is to empirically investigate the relative effects of supply chain integration, supply chain information sharing and supply chain design on supply chain…

Knowledge creation in a supply chain

Chuni Wu

This paper aims to analyze how organizational conditions, technology adoption, supplier relationship management and customer relationship management affect knowledge creation…

Supply chain planning using multi‐stage stochastic programming

Lokesh Nagar, Karuna Jain

The purpose of this paper is to explore the functionality of multistage programming approach on network supply chain structure.