Holweg, Matthias, Disney, Stephen Michael  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2505-9271, Holmström, Jan and Småros, Johanna
2005.
Supply chain collaboration: making sense of the strategy continuum.
European Management Journal
23
(2)
, pp. 170-181.
10.1016/j.emj.2005.02.008
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Abstract
Purpose - To assess current supply-chain management (SCM) practices, and to recommend appropriate strategies dependent on supplier- and customer-company size, supply-chain structure, product, and collaboration type. Design/methodology/approach - Pinpoints visibility of demand pattern as the key objective of collaborative SCM, describes how the purchase order is the only forecast available in traditional chains, identifies a range of techniques such as vendor-managed inventory (VMI), and collaborative forecasting, planning and replenishment, but cites prior research that found a predominance of traditional supply chains in many industries/sectors, despite demand variability caused by the associated bull-whip effect. Classes traditional chains as Type-O, information exchange as Type-1, VMI as Type-2 and synchronized supply as Type-3, comments on a stock ownership/location issue with Type-2 chains that renders them effectively Type-O, and employs a water-tank metaphor, and associated diagrams, to demonstrate operation of each type. Ranges across product shelf-life, demand seasonality, transportation distances, and radio-frequency identification, tabulates benefits obtained through collaboration that include improved customer service, elimination of the bull-whip effect and reduced inventory levels, and concludes by recommending strategies, including Type-O strategies, for a range of industry, company, location and product contexts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Business (Including Economics) Research Institutes & Centres > Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems At Cardiff (CAMSAC) |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Corporate Strategy; Information Exchange; Inventory Management; Orders And Ordering; Partnering; Supply-chain Management |
| Publisher: | Emerald |
| ISSN: | 0263-2373 |
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| Last Modified: | 21 Oct 2022 09:52 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/38083 |
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