Supply Chain Management: Volume 9 Issue 4

The development of a supply chain management process maturity model using the concepts of business process orientation

Archie Lockamy, Kevin McCormack

The concept of process maturity proposes that a process has a lifecycle that is assessed by the extent to which the process is explicitly defined, managed, measured and…

Supplier alliances: differences in attitudes to supplier and quality management of adopters and non‐adopters

Vijay R. Kannan, Keah Choon Tan

Faced with increasing pressure to improve responsiveness to rapidly changing market needs, firms must respond to the challenge of how to improve supply reliability and quality…

A conceptual research framework for analyzing online auctions in a B2B environment

Diane H. Parente, Ray Venkataraman, John Fizel, Ido Millet

The rapid growth of online auctions underscores the need to analyze the mechanism of online auctions and to establish a theoretical research framework based on the business models…

Building responsive contract manufacturers through value‐focused strategies

John Noonan, Michael Wallace

Contract manufacturers differ from the traditional manufacturing model in that they build a variety of products for various clients, whereas original equipment manufacturers build…

E‐logistics and the natural environment

Joseph Sarkis, Laura M. Meade, Srinivas Talluri

Organizations realize that a strong supporting logistics or electronic logistics (e‐logistics) function is an important organizational offering from both the commercial and the…

Managing the value of new‐trait varieties in the canola supply chain in Canada

Peter W.B. Phillips, Stuart Smyth

Identifies the drivers, classifies the structures, examines the governance systems and estimates the relative economic costs and benefits of various identity‐preserved production…

Quality communication within a connected manufacturing supply chain

Christopher Roethlein, Sara Ackerson

Analyzes four entities in a connected supply chain through a case study. Focuses on the relationships between organizations and the specific goals and objectives of each firm. The…

An empirical study of the imperatives for a supply chain implementation project in Seagate Technology International

Boon Khiang Bay, Nelson K.H. Tang, David Bennett

Singapore's electronics manufacturers are facing many questions. In the computer hard‐drive industry, where the problem of obsolescence is common and where a product's lifecycle…