Supply Chain Management: Volume 11 Issue 5

Towards a framework for improvement in the management of demand in agri‐food supply chains

David H. Taylor, Andrew Fearne

To highlight the problems with and propose a framework for improving demand management in retail food supply chains.

From tinkering around the edge to enhancing revenue growth: supply chain‐new product development

Remko van Hoek, Paul Chapman

To expand beyond existing research on the integration of supply chain and new product development that has a limited focused on the need to pre‐inform supply chain before product…

Spanning flexibility: supply chain information dissemination drives strategy development and customer satisfaction

Qingyu Zhang, Mark A. Vonderembse, Jeen‐Su Lim

To respond to an increasingly uncertain environment, firms are seeking to enhance flexibility across the value chain. Spanning flexibility, a critical dimension of value chain…

Benefit sharing in inter‐organizational coordination

Karuna Jain, Lokesh Nagar, Vivek Srivastava

To develop an EOQ based model to quantify the benefit accrue due to coordination for the one supplier and n retailer supply chain system and concept to share the benefits derived…

Does supply chain management strategy mediate the association between market orientation and organizational performance?

Kenneth W. Green, Ron McGaughey, K. Michael Casey

The purpose of this research was to examine the link between supply chain management (SCM), market orientation, and organizational success, and to develop a model that describes…

Skill requirements for logistics license in Taiwan

Yen‐Chun Jim Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the key logistics related skills required at the various levels of management logistics from the licensing certification perspective.

Enhancing agility by timely sharing of supply information

Gang Li, Yi Lin, Shouyang Wang, Hong Yan

Although a lot of attention has been paid to demand information sharing in the recent decade, few studies look at the value of supply information sharing. The purpose of this…

Outsourcing engineering commodity procurement

Glenn Parry, Mike James‐Moore, Andrew Graves

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and provide an insight into the benefits of outsourcing the procurement function for engineering commodity items.

A satisficing model of outsourcing

Luitzen de Boer, Juan Gaytan, Pilar Arroyo

To develop a prescriptive model that provides effective guidance in the early stages of outsourcing processes, while taking into the decision‐makers' bounded rationality.

Do upstream actors in the food chain know end‐users' quality perceptions? Findings from the Norwegian salmon farming industry

Geir Grundvåg Ottesen

To examine whether upstream firms in the food chain are knowledgeable about end‐users or consumers and to identify factors that might influence their acquisition of such knowledge.

2006 Awards for Excellence