Benchmarking: An International Journal: Volume 20 Issue 1

Benchmarking Indian general insurance firms

Samir K. Srivastava, Avishek Ray

The purpose of this paper is to benchmark the solvency status of Indian general insurance firms.

Measuring supply chain visibility in the apparel industry

Maria Caridi, Alessandro Perego, Angela Tumino

The aim of this paper is to propose an innovative quantitative approach to measure visibility in outbound supply chains and to implement it in order to evaluate the current degree…

Steel supply chain management by simulation modelling

Maqsood Ahmad Sandhu, Petri Helo, Yohanes Kristianto

The aim of this paper is to propose a simulation study of the “steel supply chain” to demonstrate the effect of inventory management and demand variety on the bullwhip effect…

Evaluating the comparative managerial efficiency of leading third party logistics providers in North America

Hokey Min, Sherrie DeMond, Seong‐Jong Joo

This paper aims to measure the comparative managerial efficiency of 24 leading third‐party logistics providers (3PLs) in North America and identify best‐practice firms among these…

Assessment of supply chain risk: scale development and validation

Murugesan Punniyamoorthy, Natarajan Thamaraiselvan, Lakshminarayanan Manikandan

The purpose of this paper is to provide a reliable and accurate instrument to assess the supply chain risk of similar comparable industries. This enables the firms which fall in…

The role of trust on the performance of strategic alliances in a cross‐cultural context: A study of the UAE

Yasir Yasin Fadol, Maqsood Ahmad Sandhu

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of trust in the relationships and long‐term commitment between partners in strategic alliances. A framework is developed for…

A fuzzy AHP approach for inbound supply risk assessment

Kunal K. Ganguly, Kalyan K. Guin

The purpose of this paper is to provide a methodology for assessing supply risk for a product category. The fuzzy based analytic hierarchy process (Fuzzy AHP) has been used for…