Supply Chain Management: Volume 5 Issue 3

Speeding up the progress curve towards effective supply chain management

Denis R. Towill, Paul Childerhouse, Stephen M. Disney

Introduces a supply chain “health check” procedure successfully applied in the European automotive sector and presents the results for the analysis of 20 trans‐European value…

Closer vertical co‐ordination in agri‐food supply chains: a conceptual framework and some preliminary evidence

Jill E. Hobbs, Linda M. Young

Closer vertical co‐ordination of supply chains is becoming a prevalent feature in the agri‐food sectors of many countries. Presents a framework within which to analyse these…

Using data envelopment analysis to compare suppliers for supplier selection and performance improvement

Jian Liu, Fong‐Yuen Ding, Vinod Lall

Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been widely applied to address various decision analysis problems due to its usefulness in evaluating multi‐criterion systems and providing…

“Swamped in information but starved of data”: information and intermediaries in clothing supply chains

Andrew Popp

Argues that the existing supply chain literature provides no explanation for the role of intermediation and intermediaries and may even be said to predict their demise. This claim…

Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage

Romko van Hoek