Supply Chain Management: Volume 14 Issue 5

Lean supply chain and its effect on product cost and quality: a case study on Ford Motor Company

H.M. Wee, Simon Wu

The purpose of this paper is to address “how Toyota can continuously and consistently achieve its dramatic success through its competences ‐ continuous waste elimination and the…

Is the offshore outsourcing landscape for US manufacturers migrating away from China?

Sameer Kumar, Jennifer Medina, Mark T. Nelson

The motivation for this study is triggered by the fact that lately contract manufacturers in China have to deal with a number of unprecedented cost pressures such as currency…

Order lead‐time of grocery retailers in the UK and Greek markets

David A. Menachof, Michael A. Bourlakis, Thrasyvoulos Makios

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a comparative study of order lead times for firms operating in the UK and Greek food retail markets with the UK one being…

Quality assurance programs and access to international markets: the case of horticultural processors in Vietnam

Marcus Mergenthaler, Katinka Weinberger, Matin Qaim

The purpose of this paper is to seek to show how the implementation of different quality assurance programs (QAPs) affects international market access for horticultural processing…

RFID technology adoption and supply chain performance: an empirical study in China's logistics industry

Chieh‐Yu Lin, Yi‐Hui Ho

The purpose of this paper is to study the factors influencing the adoption of RFID technology and the relation between RFID technology adoption and supply chain performance for…

Demand management in fresh food value chains: a framework for analysis and improvement

David H. Taylor, Andrew Fearne

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the problems with demand management in fresh food value chains and to propose a framework for demand analysis and improved demand…

Managing supply chain in the context of SMEs: a collaborative and customized partnership with the suppliers as the key for success

Victoria Bordonaba‐Juste, Jesús J. Cambra‐Fierro

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the efforts of a Spanish SME, Bodega Pirineos, to combine technology and a customized strategy in communication management with its…