Supply Chain Management: Volume 9 Issue 3

Monitoring new product introductions with sell‐through data from channel partners

Laura Salmi, Jan Holmström

Manufacturers of consumer goods need to see the market situation and end customer demand in order to efficiently allocate production capacity and procure materials. However, the…

Polarica's wild berries: an example of a required storage capacity calculation and where to locate this inventory

Erik Levén, Anders Segerstedt

Polarica is a company in northern Europe buying, refining and selling wild berries and other specialty foods. During the last couple of years the volume of wild berries, mostly…

Serendipity and the realpolitik of negotiations in supply chains

John Ramsay

The paper presents evidence of a gap between the competition‐to‐co‐operation narrative of the purchasing, marketing and supply chain management fields and the negotiating practice…

Strategic alliances in food and beverage and executive recruiting industries

Charles J. Cante, Vincent J. Calluzzo, Deborah P. Schwartz, Theodore M. Schwartz

Strategic alliances, one component of a total quality management program, break down linkages of a supply chain and help alliance partners to address new markets that could not be…

Knowledge redundancy in supply chains: a framework

K. Sivakumar, Subroto Roy

Knowledge redundancy is a powerful concept in understanding supply chain performance including supply chain value creation and competitive advantage. This paper argues that…

The development of supply chain management within the aerospace manufacturing sector

R.R. Bales, R.S. Maull, Z. Radnor

This paper analyses the development of aerospace material supply chains. The paper begins with an overview of operations management literature, which introduces and conceptualises…

Supply chain coordination in a fashion firm

Togar M. Simatupang, Indah Victoria Sandroto, S.B. Hari Lubis

Supply chain coordination plays a critical role in integrating different actors along the supply chain to enhance performance. This research focuses on supply chain coordination…