Supply Chain Management: Volume 8 Issue 3

Matsushita realigns its supply chain in China

Bin Jiang, John D. Hansen

An efficient supply chain is becoming increasingly important as globalization and technological advancement combine to make the modern marketplace more competitive than ever. An…

Trusting an auction

Adrian Griffiths

Examines the ability of online auctions to adversely affect relationships between suppliers and buyers. Buyers have to consider relationships with their own company, existing…

The impact of customs procedures on business to consumer e‐commerce in food products

Shari L. Boyd, Jill E. Hobbs, William A. Kerr

Business to consumer (B‐2‐C) e‐commerce offers many potential benefits to firms, including access to geographically dispersed markets across international borders and enabling…

Erratum

This article has been withdrawn as it was published elsewhere and accidentally duplicated. The original article can be seen here: 10.1108/13598540310463323. When citing the…

An innovative performance measurement method for supply chain management

Felix T.S. Chan, H.J. Qi

Supply chain management has become such a popular topic in modern business management and researches. It brings the revolutionary philosophy and approach to manage the business…

Achieving high satisfaction in supplier‐dealer working relationships

Patrik Jonsson, Mosad Zineldin

Increased attention has been paid to the question of how to build stable and long‐term working relationships between suppliers and dealers. This study proposes a conceptual model…

Factors influencing global supply chain efficiency: implications for information systems

Sameer Prasad, Jayavel Sounderpandian

Gaining a competitive advantage in international supply chains requires matching the value‐adding activities of a chain with the unique comparative advantages offered by diverse…

Adoption of efficient consumer response: key issues and challenges in Australia

Sherah Kurnia, Robert B. Johnston

Efficient consumer response (ECR) is an electronic commerce (EC)‐enabled grocery industry supply chain management strategy, which is designed to make the industry more efficient…

Managing innovation in regional supply networks: a Dutch case of “knowledge industry clustering”

Ronald Batenburg, Roel Rutten

This paper presents a case study on the collaboration between Océ, a large Dutch manufacturer of copiers and printers, and several of its lead suppliers within the so‐called…

A framework for sourcing product development services

Salvador Barragan, Charles Cappellino, Neil Dempsey, Sandra Rothenberg

Reflects on the experience of three product development teams to build a framework to aid in the process of strategic sourcing. Focuses on patterns observed across these three new…