Supply Chain Management: Volume 14 Issue 3

The best‐practice supplier diversity program at Caterpillar

Hokey Min

The purpose of this paper is to profile the successful implementation of a corporate‐wide supplier diversity program utilized by Caterpillar, Inc., one of the Fortune 500…

Fudging the supply chain to hit the number: five common practices that sacrifice the supply chain and what financial analysts should ask about them

Janet Godsell, Remko van Hoek

The purpose of this paper is to describe and detail practices that are commonly used to pursue short‐term functional targets (e.g. end of month sales targets) at the expense of…

An empirical study of the relationships among strategy, flexibility, and performance in the supply chain context

Kamel Aissa Fantazy, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar

The purpose of this research is to examine the relationships among strategy, flexibility, and performance in the supply chain context.

The nature and effectiveness of collaboration between firms, their customers and suppliers: a supply chain perspective

Prakash J. Singh, Damien Power

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a model of collaboration based on the notion of firms having strong working relationships with their suppliers and customers. Whilst…

The impact of alignment between supply chain strategy and environmental uncertainty on SCM performance

Szu‐Yuan Sun, Meng‐Hsiang Hsu, Wen‐Jin Hwang

The right supply chain (SC) strategy is widely believed to be able to improve supply chain management (SCM) performance. Ignoring the important concept of alignment means that…

Addressing sustainable development through public procurement: the case of local government

Lutz Preuss

While the contribution of supply chain management to sustainability is receiving increasing attention in the private sector, there is still a scarcity of parallel studies of…

Understanding demand management challenges in intermediary food trading: a case study

Dotun Adebanjo

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a study into demand management practices in a trading organisation. It aims to bring together a number of key principles…

Healthcare supply chain management in Malaysia: a case study

Noorfa Haszlinna Mustaffa, Andrew Potter

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate inventory management in the private healthcare sector in Malaysia, with a particular focus on the distribution of medicines from a…

Special issue on developments in humanitarian logistics