Supply Chain Management: Volume 8 Issue 1

Purchasing and supply chain management practices in Botswana

Kabossa A.B. Msimangira

Discusses supply chain management practices, with emphasis on purchasing, in Botswana (a developing country). Focuses on problems facing business operations and how to improve the…

Procurement best practice in the food industry: supplier clustering as a source of strategic competitive advantage

Ray Ryder, Andrew Fearne

Looks at the way in which a pizza manufacturing company, supplying both branded and own‐label products to the Irish and UK retail markets, undertook a major restructuring of its…

Retail exchanges: a research agenda

Leigh Sparks, Beverly A. Wagner

The nature of logistics and supply chain management has dramatically changed as a result of new information technology. Information is now critical in supply systems and…

Complementors: fellow travellers in contract manufacture

John Noonan, Michael Wallace

Two major markets exist in manufacturing and both are rapidly changing. On the one hand, there are the traditional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who build their own…

Beef labelling: the emergence of transparency

Kees‐Jan van Dorp

Prior to the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis, detailed information on beef products seemed no real necessity. However, following the outbreak of BSE, the Government…

Sub‐contractor and customer sourcing and the occurrence of disturbances in firms’ inbound and outbound logistics flows

Göran Svensson

This research is based on a mail survey in the Swedish vehicle industry. It is concluded that the sub‐contractor and customer sourcing in the firms’ inbound and outbound logistics…

Benchmarking supply chain management practice in New Zealand

Chuda Basnet, Jim Corner, Joel Wisner, Keah‐Choon Tan

This paper reports on a benchmarking study carried out on supply chain management (SCM) activities of manufacturing organisations in New Zealand. The purpose of the paper is to…

Building trust between growers and market agents

Peter J. Batt

In the absence of the auction as the principal mechanism for setting price in the Perth fresh fruit and vegetable market, there is a great deal of distrust between growers and the…

A study of supply chain management practice in UK industrial SMEs

Michael Quayle

This paper provides the outcomes of a supply chain management (SCM) practice survey designed to identify current trends in UK industrial small‐ to medium‐sized enterprises. The…