Supply Chain Management: Volume 16 Issue 1

Effective supply chain research via the quick scan audit methodology

P. Childerhouse, D.R. Towill

This paper aims to provide an answer to the important question of how can accurate assessment of supply chain practice and performance be conducted? By conducting audits across a…

Improving supply chain performance through auditing: a change management perspective

Ceren Atilgan, Peter McCullen

Quick scan audit methodology (QSAM) has been adapted to include some change management practices. This paper seeks to relate how the company's dissemination feedback presentation…

Developing a supply chain performance tool for SMEs in Thailand

Ruth Banomyong, Nucharee Supatn

This paper aims to present a supply chain performance assessment tool that measures the performance of key supply chain activities of a firm under different performance dimensions.

Multimodal supply chains: iron ore from Australia to China

Anthony Beresford, Stephen Pettit, Yukuan Liu

This paper aims to analyse available multimodal transport route variations for iron ore shipments from northwest Australia to northeast China, focusing on a major iron and steel…

Measures for auditing performance and integration in closed‐loop supply chains

Adrian E. Coronado Mondragon, Chandra Lalwani, Christian E. Coronado Mondragon

In a growing number of competitive sectors with closed‐loop supply chains, the reverse component has become an inherent part of the business, not to mention a core competence;…

Comparative carbon auditing of conventional and online retail supply chains: a review of methodological issues

Julia Edwards, Alan McKinnon, Sharon Cullinane

This paper seeks to examine the various stages in online and conventional retail supply chains in order to assess their relative environmental impacts. With reference to boundary…

A new company descriptor takes us into a new era

Rebecca Marsh

Guest editorial

Andrew Potter, Paul Childerhouse