Showing papers on "Supply chain published in 2009"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains, and consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995-2000 on accidents in the U. S. Chemical Industry.
Abstract: There are two broad categories of risk affecting supply chain design and management: (1) risks arising from the problems of coordinating supply and demand, and (2) risks arising from disruptions to normal activities. This paper is concerned with the second category of risks, which may arise from natural disasters, from strikes and economic disruptions, and from acts of purposeful agents, including terrorists. The paper provides a conceptual framework that reflects the joint activities of risk assessment and risk mitigation that are fundamental to disruption risk management in supply chains. We then consider empirical results from a rich data set covering the period 1995–2000 on accidents in the U. S. Chemical Industry. Based on these results and other literature, we discuss the implications for the design of management systems intended to cope with supply chain disruption risks.
1,771 citations
TL;DR: Basic features that facility location models must capture to support decision-making involved in strategic supply chain planning are identified and applications ranging across various industries are presented.
1,770 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors use case studies of 10 exemplar firms to build a coherent and testable model of the elements necessary to create a sustainable supply chain, by examining the chain as an entirety, by explicitly examining both the social and environmental outcomes of the chain's activities, and explicitly asking what these exemplar organizations are doing that is unique in regards to managing their supply chains in a sustainable manner.
Abstract: Case studies of 10 exemplar firms are used to build a coherent and testable model of the elements necessary to create a sustainable supply chain. The cases build on previous research by examining the chain as an entirety, by explicitly examining both the social and environmental outcomes of the chain's activities, and by explicitly asking what these exemplar organizations are doing that is unique in regards to managing their supply chains in a sustainable manner. The analysis suggests that the practices that lead to a more sustainable supply chain are equal parts best practices in traditional supply chain management and new behaviors, some of which run counter to existing accepted “best” practice.
1,416 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the sustainability themes covered in the first 50 issues of Production and Operations Management and conclude with some thoughts on future research challenges in sustainable operations management, including integrating environmental, health, and safety concerns with green-product design, lean and green operations, and closed-loop supply chains.
Abstract: Operations management researchers and practitioners face new challenges in integrating issues of sustainability with their traditional areas of interest. During the past 20 years, there has been growing pressure on businesses to pay more attention to the environmental and resource consequences of the products and services they offer and the processes they deploy. One symptom of this pressure is the movement towards triple bottom line reporting (3BL) concerning the relationship of profit, people, and the planet. The resulting challenges include integrating environmental, health, and safety concerns with green-product design, lean and green operations, and closed-loop supply chains. We review these and other “sustainability” themes covered in the first 50 issues of Production and Operations Management and conclude with some thoughts on future research challenges in sustainable operations management.
1,350 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the reader to the field of closed-loop supply chains with a strong business perspective, i.e., they focus on profitable value recovery from returned products.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the field of closed-loop supply chains with a strong business perspective, i.e., we focus on profitable value recovery from returned products. It recounts the evolution of research in this growing area over the past 15 years, during which it developed from a narrow, technically focused niche area to a fully recognized subfield of supply chain management. We use five phases to paint an encompassing view of this evolutionary process for the reader to understand past achievements and potential future operations research opportunities.
1,201 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of two cultural antecedents, market orientation and learning orientation, and three organizational practices, all aimed at augmenting the supply chain agility of a firm.
978 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the role of supply management capabilities in green supply is investigated and it is shown that capabilities appropriate for green supply are developed by a proactive corporate environmental stance and by a more strategic purchasing and supply management approach.
Abstract: Managers realize that they should avoid complex green supply initiatives when they do not have the capabilities to implement them. However, they have little guidance on how these capabilities can be developed. This paper provides an initial analysis of the role of supply management capabilities in green supply. We argue that the implementation of green supply is better explained by focusing on the development and deployment of an organization's specialized internal resources, rather than by the more usual focus on external environmental pressures on a firm. Further, we argue that capabilities appropriate for green supply are developed by a proactive corporate environmental stance and by a more strategic purchasing and supply management approach.
We test our model using data from a two-phase survey of 70 operating units within UK public limited companies. Our results indicate support for our conjecture that supply management capabilities are jointly developed by a proactive corporate environmental approach and a strategic purchasing and supply process. Our study results should be useful to business strategists, regulators, and researchers interested in the predictors of corporate green behavior. They should also assist future researchers in many branches of environmental management who are seeking to explore the role of the internal capabilities of firms in supporting environmental management.
905 citations
TL;DR: This paper considers logistics network design in a reverse logistics context with a generic facility location model and uses this model to analyze the impact of product return flows on logistics networks.
Abstract: Efficient implementation of closed-loop supply chains requires setting up appropriate logistics structures for the arising flows of used and recovered products. In this paper we consider logistics network design in a reverse logistics context. We present a generic facility location model and discuss differences with traditional logistics settings. Moreover, we use our model to analyze the impact of product return flows on logistics networks. We show that the influence of product recovery is very much context dependent. While product recovery may efficiently be integrated in existing logistics structures in many cases, other examples require a more comprehensive approach redesigning a company's logistics network in an integral way
800 citations
TL;DR: This paper review the main contributions in the field of production and distribution planning for agri-foods based on agricultural crops and focuses particularly on those models that have been successfully implemented.
784 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of sustainable supply chain management as a catalyst of generating valuable interorganizational resources and thus possible sustained inter-firm competitive advantage through collaboration on environmental and social issues is explored.
Abstract: On the basis of a content analysis, this paper explores the role of sustainable supply chain management as a catalyst of generating valuable inter-organizational resources and thus possible sustained inter-firm competitive advantage through collaboration on environmental and social issues. Drawing on the resource-based view and its extension, the relational view, this paper highlights that partner-focused supply management capabilities evolve to corporate core competences as competition shifts from an inter-firm to an inter-supply-chain level. The ‘collaborative paradigm’ in supply chain management regards strategic collaboration as a crucial source of competitive advantage. Collaboration is even more essential when supply chains aim at ensuring simultaneously economic, environmental and social performance on a product's total life-cycle basis. Inter-firm resources and capabilities emerging from supply-chain-wide collaboration are prone to become sources of sustained inter-firm competitive advantage, since they are socially complex, causally ambiguous and historically grown and hence particularly difficult to imitate by competitors. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.
771 citations
TL;DR: A model of supply chain complexity is put forth and empirically tests it using plant-level data from 209 plants across seven countries and shows that upstream complexity, internal manufacturing complexity, and downstream complexity all have a negative impact on manufacturing plant performance.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a conceptual framework for analysing CSR practices in global supply chains and demonstrate how a pioneering Swedish company, IKEA, implements and manages CSR practice at its suppliers.
Abstract: Purpose – The paper aims to present a conceptual framework for analysing CSR practices in global supply chains. It also seeks to demonstrate how a pioneering Swedish company, IKEA, implements and manages CSR practices at its suppliers.Design/methodology/approach – A case analysis of IKEA illustrates the implementation and management of CSR practices in supply chains. The focus is on internal and external integration of CSR practices in the supply chain. IKEA holds a leading position in its supply chain and is a global brand‐owner. Personal interviews are performed with employees from one of the company's trading areas.Findings – Practising CSR in supply chains requires that CSR is embedded within the entire organisation, including subsidiaries abroad and offshore suppliers. It includes employee training and sharing of experience, training of key personnel at the supplier level, positive incentives for suppliers in the form of long‐term contracts and enlarged purchasing orders, and regular auditing of supp...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a typology of risk sources, consisting of environmental factors, industry factors, organizational factors, problem-specific factors, and decision-maker related factors, which can be used by managers to measure and assess the vulnerabilities of their company and supply chain.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the growing literature examining supply chain risk management (SCRM) and to develop a typology of risks in the supply chain.Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws its insights and conclusions from a review of the literature on supply chain risk, and a synthesis of the broader domain of risk management.Findings – While the literature on SCRM is growing, the literature lacks an organized structure for the sources of supply chain risk. The current paper bridges this gap by synthesizing the diverse literature into a typology of risk sources, consisting of environmental factors, industry factors, organizational factors, problem‐specific factors, and decision‐maker related factors.Practical implications – The paper devises a typology that can be used by managers to measure and assess the vulnerabilities of their company and supply chain. The typology also provides avenues for future research that further guides practitioners in the management of their supp...
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09 Dec 2009
TL;DR: The role of purchasing in the supply chain is discussed in this paper, where the authors present an overview of the role of the buyer in the process of purchasing, the buyer's role, and the purchasing process.
Abstract: PART ONE: ANALYSIS. 1. The role of purchasing in the supply chain. 2.Industrial buying behaviour: decision making in purchasing. 3. The purchasing process: the buyer?s role. 4. Markets and products. 5. The purchasing management process. PART TWO: PLANNING. 6. Purchasing market research. 7. Outsourcing and risk management (NEW!). 8. Purchasing and business strategy. 9. Sourcing strategy: getting better results from suppliers. 10. Purchasing and supply strategy, electronic marketplaces and e-Procurement. 11. Purchasing, development and quality control. 12. Purchasing and supply chain management. 13. Getting organized for purchasing. 14. Purchasing performance measurement. PART THREE: TECHNIQUES. 16. Negotiating techniques and rules of conduct. 17. Buying for retail (NEW!). 18. Facility management and buying services. 19. Public procurement and the EC-Directives. Bibliography. Index.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored two dimensions of supply chain activities (collaboration and evaluation) that might be leveraged by plant managers to improve environmental management in their own plant.
Abstract: Manufacturing organizations can potentially improve environmental management both by increasing the level of investment in environmental technologies and by shifting that investment away from pollution control and toward pollution prevention. However, managers must not only consider their own manufacturing operations in isolation, but also those of others along the supply chain. This paper explores two dimensions of supply chain activities—collaboration and evaluation—that might be leveraged by plant managers to improve environmental management in their own plant. The linkages with suppliers and customers were assessed. Both customer- and plant-initiated collaboration were found to have a significant effect on the level and form of investment in environmental technologies for a sample of Canadian plants. Of greatest importance, as customer-initiated collaborative activities increased, plant-level investment in environmental management was increasingly allocated toward pollution prevention. In contrast, only very limited evidence was found that evaluative activities influenced environmental investment.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide supply chain researchers with an overview of social network analysis, covering both specific concepts (such as structural holes or betweenness centrality) and the generic explanatory mechanisms that network theorists often invoke to relate network variables to outcomes of interest.
Abstract: The network perspective is rapidly becoming a lingua franca across virtually all of the sciences from anthropology to physics. In this paper, we provide supply chain researchers with an overview of social network analysis, covering both specific concepts (such as structural holes or betweenness centrality) and the generic explanatory mechanisms that network theorists often invoke to relate network variables to outcomes of interest. One reason for discussing mechanisms is facilitate appropriate translation and context-specific modification of concepts rather than blind copying. We have also taken care to apply network concepts to both “hard” types of ties (e.g., materials and money flows) and “soft” types of ties (e.g., friendships and sharing-of-information), as both are crucial (and mutually embedded) in the supply chain context. Another aim of the review is to point to areas in other fields that we think are particularly suitable for SCM to draw network concepts from, such as sociology, ecology, input-output research and even the study of romantic networks. We believe the portability of many network concepts provides a potential for unifying many fields, and a consequence of this for SCM may be to decrease the distance between SCM and other branches of management science.
TL;DR: In this paper, the three most frequently used biomass storage methods are analyzed and are applied to a case study to come up with tangible comparative results, and the issue of combining multiple biomass supply chains, aiming at reducing the storage space requirements, is introduced.
Abstract: Biomass is a renewable energy source with increasing importance. The larger fraction of cost in biomass energy generation originates from the logistics operations. A major issue concerning biomass logistics is its storage, especially when it is characterized by seasonal availability. The biomass energy exploitation literature has rarely investigated the issue of biomass storage. Rather, researchers usually choose arbitrarily the lowest cost storage method available, ignoring the effects this choice may have on the total system efficiency. In this work, the three most frequently used biomass storage methods are analyzed and are applied to a case study to come up with tangible comparative results. Furthermore, the issue of combining multiple biomass supply chains, aiming at reducing the storage space requirements, is introduced. An application of this innovative concept is also performed for the case study examined. The most important results of the case study are that the lowest cost storage method indeed constitutes the system-wide most efficient solution, and that the multi-biomass approach is more advantageous when combined with relatively expensive storage methods. However, low cost biomass storage methods bear increased health, safety and technological risks that should always be taken into account.
TL;DR: The technical foundations in the areas of automatic identification and embedded processing, distributed information storage and processing, and agent-based systems are discussed, as well as the achievable practical goals in the contexts of manufacturing, supply chains, asset management, and product life cycle management.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present preliminary research concepts regarding a new approach to the identification and prediction of supply risk, which is based on a supplier's attributes, performances and supply chain characteristics, while it is also modified by factors in the supplier's specific environment.
Abstract: Supply risk or the likelihood of supply disruptions is emerging as a key challenge to supply chain management. The ability to identify which supplier has greater potential of a disruption is a critical first step in managing the frequency and impact of these disruptions that often significantly impact on the supply chain. This paper presents preliminary research concepts regarding a new approach to the identification and prediction of supply risk. This approach to the assessment and classification of suppliers is based on a supplier’s attributes, performances and supply chain characteristics, while it is also modified by factors in the supplier’s specific environment. The challenges posed to supply chains due to a turbulent environment (both from within the industry and external influences) are examined. A new method for the assessment and classification of suppliers based on their characteristics, performances and the environment of the industry in which they operate is presented. The findings are explained within the contingency theory.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a systematic review of current tourism studies from a supply chain management perspective and develop a framework for TSCM research that should be of great value not only to those who wish to extend their research into this new and exciting area, but also to tourism and hospitality decision makers.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a process to proactively plan for catastrophic risk events through an integration of diverse research streams related to the management of risk, in particular, the proposed process builds upon an existing risk analysis framework by incorporating an innovative methodology used by the insurance industry to quantify the risk of multiple types of catastrophic events on key supply chain locations.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the concept of figuration to show how difference is mobilized within supply chains, and to point to the importance of tropes of management, consumption, and entrepreneurship in workers' understandings of supply chain labor.
Abstract: This article theorizes supply chain capitalism as a model for understanding both the continent-crossing scale and the constitutive diversity of contemporary global capitalism. In contrast with theories of growing capitalist homogeneity, the analysis points to the structural role of difference in the mobilization of capital, labor, and resources. Here labor mobilization in supply chains is the focus, as it depends on the performance of gender, ethnicity, nationality, religion, and citizenship status. The article uses the concept of figuration to show how difference is mobilized within supply chains, and to point to the importance of tropes of management, consumption, and entrepreneurship in workers’ understandings of supply chain labor. These tropes make supply chains possible by bringing together self-exploitation and superexploitation. Diversity is thus structurally central to global capitalism, and not decoration on a common core.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present preliminary research concepts regarding a new approach to the identification and prediction of supply risk, which is based on supplier attributes, performances and supply chain characteristics, while it is also modified by factors in the supplier's specific environment.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss several different incentives for SMEs to optimize sustainability: becoming valuable sustainable investment targets for larger firms; creating highly competitive networks of sustainable SMEs in market spaces where large enterprises are less successful; and becoming highly efficient suppliers in global supply chains through sustainable practices.
TL;DR: In this article, the extent and nature of greening the supply chain in the UK manufacturing sector was examined and the factors that influence the breadth and depth of this activity were examined.
Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent and nature of greening the supply chain (SC) in the UK manufacturing sector; and the factors that influence the breadth and depth of this activity.Design/methodology/approach – Based on the findings from a sample of manufacturing organisations drawn from the membership of The Chartered Institute for Purchasing and Supply. Data are collected using a questionnaire, piloted and pre‐tested before distribution with responses from 60 manufacturing companies.Findings – On average manufacturers perceive the greatest pressure to improve environmental performance through legislation and internal drivers (IDs). The least influential pressures are related to societal drivers and SC pressures from individual customers. Green supply chain management (GSCM) practices amongst this “average” group of UK manufacturing organisations are focusing on internal, higher risk, descriptive activities, rather than proactive, external engagement processes. Environmental at...
TL;DR: This study suggests that partnerships for supply chain services engage in cooperative initiatives to generate relational rents and are an alternative to conventional "arms length" transactional exchanges.
Abstract: This paper focuses on strategic information flows between buyers and suppliers within logistics supply chain relationships and on subsequent relationship-specific performance outcomes. Our analysis of dyadic data collected from 91 buyer-supplier logistics relationships finds that buyer and supplier strategic information flows positively impact the relationship-specific performance of both sharing and receiving parties. Specifically, each party gains financially from improved management of assets, reduced costs of operations, and enhanced productivity. Moreover, each benefits operationally from improved planning, control, and flexibility of resources. Buyer dependence on the supplier increases buyer strategic information flows to the supplier. Additionally, buyer IT customization and both buyer and sup plier trusting beliefs in the receiving party positively impact strategic information sharing with partners. This study suggests that partnerships for supply chain services engage in cooperative initiatives to generate relational rents and are an alternative to conventional "arms length" transactional exchanges. These partnerships need to be motivated to go beyond the sharing of order-related information (which must occur in transactional exchanges) and to share strategic information (which has the potential for both additional rent generation and risks of misappropriation).
TL;DR: A mathematical model is proposed that can be used to design the supply chain and manage the logistics of a biorefinery and uses the State of Mississippi as the testing ground of this model.
TL;DR: In this article, food supply chains are confronted with increased consumer demands on food quality and sustainability, and when redesigning these chains the analysis of food quality change and environmental load of new...
Abstract: Food supply chains are confronted with increased consumer demands on food quality and sustainability. When redesigning these chains the analysis of food quality change and environmental load of new...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the impact of price discount contracts and pricing schemes on the dual-channel supply chain competition and show that the scenarios with price discount contract can outperform the non-contract scenarios.
01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: The proposed framework quantitatively analyzes the interdependent relationships among a set of KPIs and can identify crucial KPI accomplishment costs and propose performance improvement strategies for decision-makers in a supply chain.
Abstract: Improving supply chain performance has become one of the critical issues for gaining competitive advantages for companies. This paper proposes a framework using a systematic approach to improving the iterative key performance indicators (KPIs) accomplishment in a supply chain context. The proposed framework quantitatively analyzes the interdependent relationships among a set of KPIs. It can identify crucial KPI accomplishment costs and propose performance improvement strategies for decision-makers in a supply chain. A scenario of a large retail company is also discussed to explain the application of this framework.