Supply Chain Management: Volume 11 Issue 1

Implanting the benefits of buyer‐supplier collaboration in the soft fruit sector

Andrew Fearne, Susan Barrow, Dominique Schulenberg

The paper aims to show how a collaborative approach to demand management can improve customer service to the benefit of both supermarkets and suppliers in sectors characterised by…

Executive decision‐making traps and B2B online reverse auctions

M.L. Emiliani

The purpose of the paper is to describe common decision‐making traps experienced by senior managers when considering the use of online reverse auctions as a means for sourcing…

Supply chain controlling: summarizing recent developments in German literature

Stefan A. Seuring

The intention of the paper is to present recent developments in German‐based supply chain‐controlling literature (management accounting in supply chains) and place them in a…

Managing supply chains for competitiveness: the Indian scenario

B.S. Sahay, Jatinder N.D. Gupta, Ramneesh Mohan

The paper aims to analyse research conducted for assessing the current state of supply chain management practices followed by Indian organisations and identifying important areas…

Financial performance of supply chains after disruptions: an event study

Ioannis S. Papadakis

This empirical analysis aims to shed light on the financial implications of supply chain design and in particular on the differences between pull‐ and push‐type designs. The focus…

Supply chain integration: exploring product and environmental contingencies

Peter W. Stonebraker, Jianwen Liao

This conceptual paper aims to examine the notion that supply chain integration is an extension and application of vertical integration theory.

Integrating the US textile and apparel supply chain with small companies in South America

S. Gary Teng, Hector Jaramillo

The South American textile industry is experiencing unprecedented opportunities to enter the US textile/apparel market and be a collaborator in the US textile/apparel supply…

An empirical study on the impact of standardization of materials and purchasing procedures on purchasing and business performance

Cristóbal Sánchez‐Rodríguez, David Hemsworth, Ángel R. Martínez‐Lorente, José G. Clavel

Standardization of materials (i.e. replacement of several materials/components by a single component that has all the functionalities of the materials/components it replaces) is…

Product innovation in the Canadian canola sector

Richard Gray, Stavroula Malla, Peter W.B. Phillips

The paper aims to examine how the theory of institutional economics is used to analyze and explain how the canola industry has developed and changed over the past 30 years, in…

Supplier diversity and minority business enterprise development: case study experience of three US multinationals

Mayank Shah, Monder Ram

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the rationale for supplier diversity, constituent elements of each case study programme, actual performance of the initiatives and key…

A framework for measurement of quality of service in supply chains

Nitin Seth, S.G. Deshmukh, Prem Vrat

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the concept of service quality in a supply chain and present a framework for its measurement.