International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management: Volume 36 Issue 6

Plan for supply chain agility at Nokia: Lessons from the mobile infrastructure industry

Jari Collin, Dennis Lorenzin

The purpose of this paper is to describe how demand planning can increase agility in supply chains. The paper builds on a case study from mobile infrastructure industry with…

A balanced approach to building agile supply chains

H.S. Ismail, H. Sharifi

Parallel developments in the areas of agile systems and manufacturing, and supply chain management led to the introduction of the agile supply chains (ASC) concept. How to achieve…

Improving agility of supply chains using base stock model and computer based simulations

Alok K. Verma

The purpose of this paper is to deal with the application of the stochastic inventory model to the three‐tier supply chain and verify the values obtained by mathematical model in…

Competing in the 21st century supply chain through supply chain management and enterprise resource planning integration

S.C. Lenny Koh, S. Saad, S. Arunachalam

To investigate the integration of supply chain management (SCM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for competing in the twenty‐first century supply chain.

Partnering motives and partner selection: Case studies of Finnish distributor relationships in China

Lingyun Wang, Pekka Kess

To study the motives for partnership in marketing channels and provide an empirical study on mutual selection between manufacturers and distributors.

Moving forward with agility – a little faster

Remko I. van Hoek

Foreword

Remko I. van Hoek