Supply Chain Management: Volume 15 Issue 3

Performance assessment framework for supply chain partnership

Dong‐Young Kim, Vinod Kumar, Uma Kumar

The purpose of this paper is to develop a framework for assessing the comprehensive performance of supply chain partnership (SCP).

The regional‐newspaper industry supply chain and the internet

Gary Graham, Alison Smart

This paper aims to understand the impact of the internet on different value activities in a physical goods (newspaper) supply chain.

Supply chain integration: cluster analysis of the impact of span of integration

Vijay R. Kannan, Keah Choon Tan

This paper aims to explore whether firms that integrate only with partners adjacent to them in the supply chain exhibit different patterns of supply chain practice and performance…

Lean competence: integration of theories in operations management practice

Glenn Parry, John Mills, Celine Turner

This paper aims to develop a methodology for lean implementation that reduces the risk of damaging a company's key resources and abilities through the application of core…

Measuring chain digitisation maturity: an assessment of Dutch retail branches

Marijn G.A. Plomp, Ronald S. Batenburg

The purpose of this paper is to develop a validated measurement model and typology for chain digitisation maturity, defined as the degree of interorganisational collaboration…

Electronic markets, data access and collaboration: relative value to performance in firm operations

Damien Power, Victoria Hanna, Prakash J. Singh, Danny Samson

This paper aims to examine the direct and indirect effects of the use of electronic markets (e‐markets), access to online data and trading partner collaboration on operational…

Site inventory tracking in the project supply chain: problem description and solution proposal in a very large telecom project

Timo Ala‐Risku, Jari Collin, Jan Holmström, Juha‐Pekka Vuorinen

This paper aims to describe how performance in the project supply chain can be improved by implementing information technology solutions that track site installation and inventory.