Supply Chain Management: Volume 10 Issue 1

Five ways to simplify your supply chain

Rick Hoole

To provide five ways of simplifying the supply chain.

Controlling the sustainability of food supply chains

Jens Hamprecht, Daniel Corsten, Manfred Noll, Evelyn Meier

For the food industry, the depletion of arable land and a growing world population demand controlling the sustainability of agricultural inputs to the industry. Controlling the…

Should an organisation join a purchasing group?

Jean Nollet, Martin Beaulieu

The article deals with issues such as the size of a purchasing group, the types of benefits aimed for, and the real beneficiaries of purchasing groups.

Fashions of learning: improving supply‐chain relationships

Kenneth J. Preiss, Peter A. Murray

The purpose of this paper is to present a new model of organisational learning that can be used to identify the actual and desired behavioural gaps between firms engaged in…

Trust, commitment and relationships in supply chain management: a path analysis

Ik‐Whan G. Kwon, Taewon Suh

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between the level of trust and several relevant constructs drawn from transaction cost analysis (such as asset…

Comparative analysis on value of information sharing in supply chains

Gang Li, Hong Yan, Shouyang Wang, Yusen Xia

Information sharing is an important component of cooperation in supply chain management. However, it has long been debated whether there is value in information sharing, how large…

A conceptual framework for supply chain management: a structural integration

Premaratne Samaranayake

The main purpose of this paper is to document the research on development of a conceptual framework for the supply chain. The aims of the research were to develop an integrated…

Use the supply relationship to develop lean and green suppliers

Dayna F. Simpson, Damien J. Power

To investigate the relationship between a supplier and firm's level of environmental management activity and the structure of the customer‐supplier manufacturing relationship.