Keah Choon Tan

TL;DR: The literature base and development of supply chain management from two separate paths that eventually merged into the modern era of a holistic and strategic approach to operations, materials and logistics management is reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed senior managers in various industries to study the prevalent supply chain management and supplier evaluation practices and related these practices to a smaller set of constructs and related the constructs to firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically examined the extent to which just-in-time, supply chain management, and quality management are correlated, and how they impact business performance, finding that at both strategic and operational levels, linkages exist between how just in time, total quality management and supply-chain management are viewed by organizations as part of their operations strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an empirical study of the importance of supplier selection and assessment criteria of American manufacturing companies for items to be used in products already in production, and identify relationships between criteria and a buying firm's business performance.