Supply Chain Management: Volume 13 Issue 1

Supply strategies for build‐to‐order: managing global auto operations

Joe Miemczyk, Mickey Howard

Vehicle manufacturer “CarCo” has spent decades developing its supply strategy based on customer ordered production. Yet the combination of an over‐crowded European market and the…

Recycling calls for revaluation

Maria Huge Brodin, Helén Anderson

The purpose of this paper is to develop the value concept for recycling contexts.

The challenges of supply strategy selection in a project environment: evidence from UK naval shipbuilding

Joe Sanderson, Andrew Cox

There is a view that firms should decide between a lean or agile approach to supply management primarily on the basis of whether their product offering is “functional”…

Using e‐procurement applications to achieve integration: what role does firm size play?

Dawn H. Pearcy, Larry C. Giunipero

The purpose of this research is to empirically investigate the role of firm size in the use of e‐procurement applications that vary in their ability to facilitate supply chain…

Benefits, barriers, and bridges to effective supply chain management

Stanley E. Fawcett, Gregory M. Magnan, Matthew W. McCarter

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide academics and practitioners a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the benefits, barriers, and bridges to successful…

The impact of collaborative store ordering on shelf availability

Katerina Pramatari, Panagiotis Miliotis

This paper aims to focus on the store ordering and replenishment practices which appear to be the major cause behind the problem of out‐of‐stock situations. A collaborative store…

Facilitating learning and knowledge transfer through supplier development

Mihalis Giannakis

This paper aims to explore how supplier development programmes can be adapted to create value for organisations through generation and transfer of knowledge between supply chain…

Barriers to the adoption of online supply chain solutions in small and medium enterprises

Norm Archer, Shan Wang, Claire Kang

The objective of this paper is to identify and measure the perceived importance of barriers in the SME community to the adoption of internet business procurement and supply chain…

Value chain analysis in the UK beef foodservice sector

Mark Francis, David Simons, Michael Bourlakis

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to discuss the results from a UK government‐funded applied research programme on value chain analysis that examined the beef foodservice…