Supply Chain Management: Volume 6 Issue 5

Collaboration: the key to value creation in supply chain management

Laura Horvath

As global markets grow increasingly efficient, competition no longer takes place between individual businesses, but between entire value chains. Collaboration through intelligent…

Managing the unmanageable: integrating the supply chain with new developments in software

Forrest B. Green

Unlike management in a traditional organization, supply chain management is a collaborative effort among various organizations or entities whose well being relies on dependency…

The distribution and extent of agrifood chain management research in the public domain

David C. Cunningham

A global literature search identified only 123 formal, peer reviewed journal articles relating to chain management in the agrifood industry. The papers, published from 1987 to…

Purchase decision making and buyer‐seller relationship development in the French food processing industry

Sam Dzever, Mohamed Merdji, Anne‐Laure Saives

Analyzes the nature of purchase decision making and buyer‐seller relationship development in the French food processing industry. It is the result of a detailed empirical study…

Adoption of efficient consumer response: the issue of mutuality

Sherah Kurnia, Robert B. Johnston

The adoption of efficient consumer response (ECR) has been slow in many regions, despite its many potential benefits to supply chain participants through reduction of inventory…

Alliance Advantage, The art of creating value through partnering

Yves L. Doz, Gary Hamel