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Publication date: 2 June 2021

Remko van Hoek and David Dobrzykowski

Reshoring is one of the supply chain risk management techniques suggested in literature. However, literature suggests that the decision-making involved in reshoring is complex and…

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Purpose

Reshoring is one of the supply chain risk management techniques suggested in literature. However, literature suggests that the decision-making involved in reshoring is complex and not fully understood. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, reshoring may represent a way to reduce reliance on global sources and improve resilience of their supply chains. This paper aims to explore if the pandemic is driving reshoring decisions and if the pandemic will actually lead to companies reshoring parts of their supply chain.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper critically engages with senior(-most) supply chain managers from three manufacturing companies as they proceed through reshoring decision-making. This enables to develop experiential knowledge about reshoring decision-making processes and their context, as well as insights into the relevance of existing knowledge about reshoring. While not a full multiple case study, the opportunity to engage directly with senior(-most) supply chain managers as they consider reshoring, enables near real-time learning. Not only is reshoring a very timely topic literature has also called for more event-based empirical research. Further to that, it is hoped that this can complement this special issue and support, in a timely manner, the many researchers that are actively studying the impact of the pandemic on supply chains.

Findings

Reshoring was being actively considered by all three companies during the research process in Q3 and Q4 of 2020. During this period the pandemic has not yet led to substantial implementation of reshoring, at least by the companies studied in this paper. In response to tariffs on Chinese imports, companies had been diversifying their supply base away from China, but doing so by developing alternative, global sources. Additionally, companies are using alternative risk management techniques, such as supplier collaboration, in the short to medium term. Reshoring decision-making is indeed found to be complex and requires a longer-term time horizon for decision-making and implementation. Logistical challenges and growth in demand do drive a willingness of consumers to pay a premium for locally sourced products. However, when supply normalizes these considerations might lose relevance well before reshoring decision-making and implementation can be completed.

Originality/value

This paper studies reshoring in a real-world setting, learning directly from insights from industry as they emerge. This paper develops four extensions to existing knowledge, develop these in frameworks and hope that this will support ongoing consideration in industry and support the many researchers that are active in this domain today. This paper also suggests several directions for further research.

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Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, vol. 26 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1359-8546

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Publication date: 14 June 2013

David Walton and Seraphim J. Rose Patel

Whole system working is critical to improving health and social care services while using scarce resources more efficiently and this article aims to look at the urgent need to…

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Purpose

Whole system working is critical to improving health and social care services while using scarce resources more efficiently and this article aims to look at the urgent need to develop measures for it. It seeks to describe the development of a simple, practical, set of measures for benchmarking and analysing local use of key whole system resources as the basis for discussion and planning. Practical and usable tools are needed urgently as national measures are not available at present and key resource decisions need to be made now.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper looks at a simple framework for looking at integration in localities and some proposed measures as the basis for discussion. It describes the development and application of a simple, practical set of measures to use locally in the absence of a national set. It uses nationally available, comparable measures wherever possible to minimise work. It briefly describes how the comparative data enables localities to identify key differences in use of resources and outcomes and areas for improvement.

Findings

Taking a whole system, whole person approach and applying it across localities provides a useful framework to help local health and social care systems focus on improving patient outcomes while reducing unnecessary costs – particularly unnecessary use of high cost institutional care. The measures including the Audit Commission whole system measures identified key issues re different use of resources, costs and outcomes between localities. This article looks ahead to the implications of greater personalisation of services and the need to develop more effective information systems based on the individual patient which allow more rigorous measurement of service effectiveness including outcomes as well as activity.

Practical implications

In the absence of national measures of whole system integration, this paper describes how a simple, practical framework and measures were developed to analyse use of resources and identify key areas for improvement. It can be used by localities to provide a quick benchmark of use of resources and outcomes (especially whole system use of expensive institutional resources) to support value for money and service effectiveness work. It describes how it worked in practice and looks at how information systems could be further developed in line with personalisation to allow ongoing improvement based on individual outcomes, costs and service effectiveness.

Originality/value

This study describes the need to develop whole system measures to show the effectiveness of moves towards integration. In the absence of national measures, it describes the development of a simple set of local whole system outcome measures based on a framework based on recent work on whole system integration. The paper uses both health and social care evidence and summarises key elements that work. It shows how the measures have been applied in practice in localities as a first step in a local system improvement programme.

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 9 December 2011

David Walton, Michael Fullerton and Seraphim Patel

This paper seeks to discuss the collaborative development and piloting of joint user outcome measures for older adults with mental health problems (OAMH) and their carers. Outcome…

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This paper seeks to discuss the collaborative development and piloting of joint user outcome measures for older adults with mental health problems (OAMH) and their carers. Outcome measures are crucial to measuring the impact of services on people's lives and are central to the new NHS and Adult Social Care (ASC) Outcome Frameworks.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper describes the development of a joint user outcome measure based on ASC User Experience Surveys (UES) and User Outcome Measures, and NHS Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) and Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMS).

Findings

The aim was to supplement existing clinical outcome measures (HONOS65+) with holistic measures of the impact of services on the lives of patients, easy to administer, covering a range of health and social care outcomes and meeting both health and social care outcome requirements.

Originality/value

As far as is known this is one of the first tests of a joint patient reported experience and outcome measure. Such measures may enable joint services to: measure wider outcomes as well as clinical outcomes; meet the new focus on outcomes; and enable more systematic collection of outcome and effectiveness/Value for Money (VFM) data. There are also lessons about collaborative working and development.

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 12 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 1 March 1987

G. Dale, J.A. Fleetwood, B. Johnson and D.R. Walton

With the introduction of systems of financial management, departmental computers are needed to provide the cost analysis reports from clinical biochemistry and other laboratory…

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With the introduction of systems of financial management, departmental computers are needed to provide the cost analysis reports from clinical biochemistry and other laboratory departments. To avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, it is important that laboratory data management computers can produce the cost reports required. Any viable system should take account of the additional costs involved in emergency work, the processing of high risk samples etc. Such a system is described, and an indication of the flexibility of the cost analysis software is given. The problems are largely logistical, as the computer searches needed are lengthy, and at present are performed out of normal working hours.

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Journal of Management in Medicine, vol. 2 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0268-9235

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Publication date: 20 February 2019

David Birnbaum and Michael Decker

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International Journal of Health Governance, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2059-4631

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Publication date: 1 November 2002

Stephen J. Arnold

The world’s best retailers – Ahold, Benetton, Carrefour, Home Depot, IKEA and Wal‐Mart – reflect several common characteristics: inspirational leadership, a motivational…

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The world’s best retailers – Ahold, Benetton, Carrefour, Home Depot, IKEA and Wal‐Mart – reflect several common characteristics: inspirational leadership, a motivational organisational culture, innovativeness, adaptability and consumer and community relevant behaviours.

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International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management, vol. 30 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0959-0552

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Publication date: 1 November 2006

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 53 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0003-5599

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Publication date: 1 June 1993

Darrell K. Rigby

These days, the first order of business at many firms seems to be learning new management tools and techniques, not creating profitable customers. The employees at many companies…

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These days, the first order of business at many firms seems to be learning new management tools and techniques, not creating profitable customers. The employees at many companies are getting groggy from Hying to absorb and implement initiatives ranging from business process reenginering to agile manufacturing. It's time for results‐minded managers to take control of the situation, and to actively and intelligently manage the adoption of management tools.

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Planning Review, vol. 21 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0094-064X

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Publication date: 9 December 2011

Ron Iphofen

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 12 no. 4
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ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 14 June 2013

Ron Iphofen

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 14 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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