Supply Chain Management: Volume 24 Issue 3

Purchasing and supply management practices in customer value creation

Aki Jääskeläinen, Jussi Heikkilä

How do purchasing and supply management (PSM) practices create value for the business customers of a focal company? The purpose of this study is to approach the question by…

Manufacturer structural embeddedness and the network rent: the intervening role of relational embeddedness in the triadic supply chains

Artur Swierczek

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the manufacturer that occupies the central position in the triadic supply chain is capable of enhancing relationships within…

Changing institutional logics and implications for supply chains: Ethiopian rural water supply

Linda Annala, Pia Eva Polsa, Gyöngyi Kovács

The institutional logic in developing countries is changing from aid toward trade, having implications for institutionally embedded supply chains (SCs) and their members. The…

A knowledge-based system for overall supply chain performance evaluation: a multi-criteria decision making approach

Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan, Amin Chaabane, Fikri Dweiri

Existing supply chain (SC) performance models are not able to cope with the potential of intensive SC digitalisation and establish a relationship between decisions and decision…

3D printing strategic deployment: the supply chain perspective

Christos Braziotis, Helen Rogers, Ajeseun Jimo

The emergence and application of 3D Printing (3DP) is changing the way products are developed and reach the customer, allowing for unprecedented customisation options. Past…

Professional competencies in supply chain management in the mid-sized supermarket sector in Brazil

Domingos Fernandes Campos, José Tarcísio de Andrade Lima Jr, Anielson Barbosa da Silva, António Jorge Fernandes

The purpose of this paper is to analyse professionals’ competencies in supply chain management (SCM) in the mid-sized supermarket sector in Brazil as a way of broadening the…

Customer categorization, relational justice and SME performance in supermarket supply chains

Ricardo Malagueño, Ismail Gölgeci, Andrew Fearne

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of perceived relational justice on the relationship between key customer categorization and performance of small food and drink…

Building routines for non-routine events: supply chain resilience learning mechanisms and their antecedents

Kirstin Scholten, Pamela Sharkey Scott, Brian Fynes

Organisations must build resilience to be able to deal with disruptions or non-routine events in their supply chains. While learning is implicit in definitions of supply chain…