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Value chain
About: Value chain is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7206 publications have been published within this topic receiving 224183 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop the concept of supply chain competence and use learning as a proxy to separate winners from losers in a supply chain management problem and explore the pre-conditions for learning to emerge and the impact of learning on supply chain performance.
Abstract: Supply chain management has received in recent years a great deal of attention by practitioners and academics alike. The benefits that accrue to firms that effectively manage their supply chain partners range from lower costs to higher R0I, to higher returns to stockholders. Yet, effective management of one's supply chain is not easily accomplished. In this paper, we develop this capability as a core skill that will ultimately separate winners from losers. We develop the concept of supply chain competence and use learning as a proxy. We explore the pre-conditions for learning to emerge and the impact of learning on supply chain performance. A number of factors that effect partner-like behavior also affect learning. In addition, learning appears to have a positive impact on performance measures that relate to end-customer satisfaction and being a more market-focused supply chain. Learning does not appear to affect supply chain performance related to cost.
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TL;DR: In this article, a review of previous literature on innovation in supply chain management is presented and the authors design an interview guide for their data collection that is developed from their previous literature review.
Abstract: Purpose – This research aims to explore innovation in supply chain management. Innovation has often been studied in supply chain relationships and specifically from a product point of view. The authors aim to observe innovation by focusing on the different practices and collaborations suppliers and customers are developing to improve their competitiveness and the performance of the whole supply chain.Design/methodology/approach – A review of previous literature on innovation in supply chain management is presented and the authors design an interview guide for their data collection that is developed from their previous literature review on innovation in supply chain management. Data are collected from 68 innovations in French companies and subsequently analyzed to identify the major elements of innovations in supply chain management.Findings – The key findings of the paper identify the major components affecting innovative supply chain practices and SC performance. The results suggest that innovation is es...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and discuss issues involved in quantifying added value at the industrial process level, and develop a bottom-up method to estimate the value added by forest industry processes.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the factors that influence the performance of a business process outsourcing (BPO) firm from the perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm.
Abstract: A service provider firm in an outsourcing relationship is distinct from a typical firm because it is not a stand alone organization and fits somewhere in between the value chain of its client’s business. Thus, conventional factors like wages, capital, rent, energy consumption cannot appropriately determine a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm’s productivity. Academic research is silent on the factors that influence the performance of a BPO firm even though the issue is pertinent from the perspective of the host country, the sourcing firm, the global outsourcing industry and of course the service provider firm. In this paper, we embark on to explore these factors.
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TL;DR: The progress made on energy consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and water consumption in the steel industry worldwide is reviewed and the important issues that contribute to define a sustainable industrial activity are studied.
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