Supply Chain Management: Volume 17 Issue 2

What drives perishable inventory management performance? Lessons learnt from the UK blood supply chain

Sebastian H.W. Stanger, Richard Wilding, Nicky Yates, Sue Cotton

Managing perishable inventories is a trade‐off of shortages and lost sales against wastage. This paper aims to identify what drives good management of perishables within the…

Translating trade and transport facilitation into strategic operations performance objectives

Luciano Batista

Trade and transport facilitation is a challenging area for international logistics and supply chains. A major problem in the area is the lack of a specific framework to support…

Impacts of business environment changes on global manufacturing outsourcing in China

Abraham Zhang, George Q. Huang

Rising production costs in coastal China have caused the popularity of the “China plus one” strategy, and the hike in oil prices favors near‐shore outsourcing to reduce…

Inter‐organisational supplier development: the case of customer attractiveness and strategic fit

Mads Mortensen, Jan Arlbjørn

This paper aims to investigate the concept of inter‐organisational supplier development programs and to stress the importance of considering suppliers' interest and motivation…

A survey based analysis of IT adoption and 3PLs' performance

Pietro Evangelista, Riccardo Mogre, Alessandro Perego, Antonino Raspagliesi, Edward Sweeney

In today's competitive scenario, effective supply chain management is increasingly dependent on third‐party logistics (3PL) companies' capabilities and performance. The…

Vertical integration in supply chains: driving forces and consequences for a manufacturer's downstream integration

Wei Guan, Jakob Rehme

Strategic concentration is a key issue for manufacturing companies when designing a supply chain. As a corporate strategy and a supply chain governance strategy, vertical…

A boundaries and flows perspective of green supply chain management

Joseph Sarkis

Managing the green (environmentally sustainable) supply chain is an important issue for industry. This paper aims to provide a framework to understand and appreciate the…

Collaborative management of inventory in Australian hospital supply chains: practices and issues

Vikram Bhakoo, Prakash Singh, Amrik Sohal

The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of the nature of collaborative arrangements that partners in Australian hospital supply chains use to manage inventories.