Supply Chain Management: Volume 16 Issue 5

RFId adoption in the FMCG supply chain: an interpretative framework

Raffaello Balocco, Giovanni Miragliotta, Alessandro Perego, Angela Tumino

In 2003, Walmart issued a sensational RFId mandate for its top 100 suppliers, including a detailed deployment plan under compelling deadlines. After seven years, very little of…

Using fourth‐party logistics management to improve horizontal collaboration among grocery retailers

Martin Hingley, Adam Lindgreen, David B. Grant, Charles Kane

There is a paucity of literature considering horizontal collaboration among grocery retailers, suppliers, and third‐party logistics (3PL) providers. This paper seeks to…

The rise of the “next‐generation bar code”: an international RFID adoption study

Frédéric Thiesse, Thorsten Staake, Patrick Schmitt, Elgar Fleisch

The present study is concerned with the determinants of RFID adoption among a group of early standards adopters. Despite the extensive discussion of the technological…

Management of service supply chains with a service‐oriented reference model: the case of management consulting

Mihalis Giannakis

This paper aims to explore the utility of the manufacturing biased supply chain operations reference (SCOR) tool in services and develops a reference model for use in service…

Service quality in supply chain: empirical evidence from Indian automotive industry

Gyan Prakash

This paper aims to conceptualize the role of service quality in the manufacturing supply chain, present a scale to measure the same, and a model that proposes that internal and…

A social network‐based organizational model for improving knowledge management in supply chains

Josep Capó‐Vicedo, Josefa Mula, Jordi Capó

This paper aims to provide a social network‐based model for improving knowledge management in multi‐level supply chains formed by small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs).