Supply Chain Management: Volume 9 Issue 2

Supplier parks in the automotive industry

David Morris, Tim Donnelly, Tom Donnelly

The auto industry has undergone substantial structural and other change in the last 20 years. The influences of globalisation, implementation of lean production and the…

Interaction between management accounting and supply chain management

Miguel Martinez Ramos

Despite its importance in other disciplines and its rapid proliferation in organizational practice, until recently supply chain management (SCM) has had only a relatively modest…

Aerospace parts suppliers’ reaction to online reverse auctions

M.L. Emiliani, D.J. Stec

Presents the results of a survey conducted among aerospace part and sub‐assembly suppliers to quantitatively assess their reaction to online reverse auctions and its impact on…

Methodology to mitigate supplier risk in an aerospace supply chain

Pankaj Raj Sinha, Larry E. Whitman, Don Malzahn

Supply chain design is frequently performed from the perspective of a single supplier‐customer relationship. However, as a supplier provides value to different supply chains, it…

The influence of national culture on dissolution communication strategies in Western versus Asian business relationships: a theoretical model

Susan Freeman, Emma Browne

Identifies the communication strategies available to companies when dissolving cross‐cultural inter‐organisational relationships to achieve effective (cooperative) outcomes…

Supply chain risk management

Peter Finch

This article presents a secondary analysis of the literature, supplemented by case studies to determine if large companies increase their exposure to risk by having small‐ and…

An evaluation procedure for materials service centers

Fong‐Yuen Ding, Anthony Stoner

A third party logistics practice in using a materials service center to provide a manufacturer the component‐parts management function has become more widely accepted in industry…