Supply Chain Management: Volume 12 Issue 2

Coercion and reverse auctions

C. Giampietro, M.L. Emiliani

The paper seeks to examine the presence of coercion in the common use of reverse auctions for industrial procurement and spend management activities, and to illustrate the many…

Driving towards sustainable profitability: transportation service providers and customer relationship management

Gurram Gopal, Steve Cline

The paper aims to highlight the focus on short‐term profitability by transportation service providers in a notoriously cyclical business, often at the expense of developing…

Supply chain management six sigma: a management innovation methodology at the Samsung Group

Hong Mo Yang, Byung Seok Choi, Hyung Jin Park, Min Soo Suh, Bongsug (Kevin) Chae

This paper seeks to introduce a six‐sigma based methodology for the SCM domain which was developed and has been used in Samsung.

Into the depths of the I‐E‐I framework: using the internet to create value in supply‐chain relationships

Tim Foster

The paper seeks to provide a better understanding of how industrial (B2B) organizations use their web sites as a marketing communication tool to create value through their supply…

Business‐to‐business e‐procurement: success factors and challenges to implementation

Rebecca Angeles, Ravi Nath

The paper seeks to pursue the understanding of current business‐to‐business e‐procurement practices by describing the success factors and challenges to its implementation in the…

Process approach to supply chain integration

Peter Trkman, Mojca Indihar Štemberger, Jurij Jaklič, Aleš Groznik

Business renovation, the effective utilisation of information technology and the role of business process modelling and simulation, are all vital in supply chain integration…

An exploration of warehouse automation implementations: cost, service and flexibility issues

Peter Baker, Zaheed Halim

Automated warehouse equipment is often regarded as being inflexible, and yet its use continues to rise even though markets are becoming increasingly volatile. The purpose of this…

Integrated production/distribution planning in the supply chain: the Febal case study

Fabio Nonino, Roberto Panizzolo

The paper seeks to investigate empirically the criticalities of a production system constrained by distribution, in order to propose a model capable of integrating production and…

Supply chain partnering: a temporal multidisciplinary approach

Desirée Knoppen, Ellen Christiaanse

The aim of this paper is to develop a multidisciplinary approach towards supply chain partnering to increase sensitivity for providing more powerful explanations of this complex…