The International Journal of Logistics Management
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Supplier Partnerships in Manufacturing Versus Non‐Manufacturing Firms
Tập 5 Số 1 - Trang 43-54
While the concept of partnerships has received much attention in the literature,
the focus has primarily been on the manufacturing firm. This paper explores the
similarities and differences in partnerships from the perspectives of
manufacturing and non‐manufacturing firms. Findings indicate that
non‐manufacturing firms have had longer relationships with their partners than
manufacturing firms. In ...
Redesigning Logistics to Improve Performance
Tập 6 Số 1 - Trang 75-84
This paper discusses the basic concepts and themes of the emerging process
approach to management and organization. Case study evidence is then presented
to examine how these themes could be applied to changing logistics
organizations. The case company, a branded consumer products manufacturer in
Finland, redesigned its logistics to improve performance in terms of production
efficiency and the abi...
A review of the transportation mode choice and carrier selection literature
Tập 19 Số 2 - Trang 183-211
– The purpose of this paper is to categorize transportation choice research
(mode choice and carrier selection) leading to insight on themes in the
literature and directions for future research, – The proposed transportation
choice research categorization framework is based on a comprehensive literature
review of the peer‐reviewed journal papers published over the past 20 years,
supplemented with ...
Implementing Collaboration Process Networks
Tập 13 Số 2 - Trang 39-50
The promise of process integration between organizations too often is
unfulfilled and new approaches are needed. Distributed control is a new and
exciting opportunity to build more effective process networks for a wide range
of applications in logistics and product development. A solution based on
distributed control around the consumers of services in process networks is
proposed. In logistics, i...
Supply chain risk management: Understanding the business requirements from a practitioner perspective
Tập 16 Số 1 - Trang 120-141
– This paper seeks to understand business requirements for supply chain risk
management (SCRM) from a practitioner perspective., – Based on the findings from
an exploratory quantitative survey and qualitative focus group discussions with
supply chain managers, some issues of SCRM are derived and structured along the
three conceptual levels of “philosophy”, “principles” and “processes”., – The
surv...
Avoiding Supply Chain Management Failure: Lessons from Business Process Re‐engineering
Tập 9 Số 1 - Trang 15-23
Business Process Re‐engineering (BPR) appears to have had its 15 minutes of fame
and is now viewed by many managers as an unqualified failure. It is important
that managers realize that every concept has some merit and that lessons can be
learned even from a failure. This paper reviews the similarities that exist
between BPR and Supply Chain Management (SCM). These similarities allow supply
chain ...
Understanding the concept of supply chain resilience
Tập 20 Số 1 - Trang 124-143
– In the emerging disciplines of risk management and supply chain management,
resilience is a relatively undefined concept. The purpose of this paper is to
present an integrated perspective on resilience through an extensive review of
the literature in a number of disciplines including developmental psychology and
ecosystems. In addition, the paper identifies and addresses some of the current
theo...
Reengineering Order Fulfillment
Tập 6 Số 2 - Trang 1-10
Business process reengineering applied to the order fulfillment process is
becoming very popular. This research provides an overview of reengineering order
fulfillment and presents some methodologies which may be helpful to managers.
Several examples from the literature are provided as illustrations of issues
involved in reengineering order fulfillment. Critical success factors are
described inclu...
A Methodology for the Strategic Management of International Manufacturing and Sourcing
Tập 5 Số 1 - Trang 55-66
Little previous research has been carried out on the issues to be considered
when choosing between manufacturing at home, offshore or sourcing from an
offshore third party supplier. As a consequence, few concepts or frameworks have
been developed to help determine how the manufacturing and sourcing resources of
a business should be configured to create or sustain a competitive advantage.
The offsh...