Electronic supply chain management applications by Swedish SMEs

Beheshti, Hooshang M.; Hultman, Magnus; Jung, Marie-Louise; Opoku, Robert A.; Salehi‐Sangari, Esmail

doi:10.1080/17517570701273221

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“…While the literature on supply chain integration has offered several types of coordination, such as customer/market coordination, information coordination, logistics and distribution coordination, supplier coordination, and purchasing coordination (Zhang et al 2004, Das et al 2006, Li 2006, Beheshti et al 2007, Hou 2009), our focus in this paper is on supplier and customer coordination. Lately, research has shown that effective supplier coordination is a key factor for manufacturers to remain competitive in today's global competition.…”

Section: A Contingency Approach To Supplier and Customer Coordinationmentioning

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The direct and contingency effects of supplier coordination and customer coordination on quality and flexibility performance

Jayaram

Nicolae

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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In today's highly competitive environment, a goal-oriented supply chain needs coordination to manage the interdependent activities of supply chain partners. The role of coordination mechanisms is critical in achieving supply chain performance. We thus suggest that supplier coordination and customer coordination influence performance, operationalised in this paper under two dimensions, e.g., quality and flexibility. Moreover, drawing on contingency theory, we suggest that the relationships are contingent upon factors such as firm size and clockspeed. Using empirical data collected from 197 production/operations managers of Chinese manufacturing firms, a regression analysis approach is employed to test the theoretical framework. The results provide support for the four direct and positive relationships between each coordination mechanism studied and quality and flexibility performance. The interaction between supplier coordination and size was directly and positively related to quality performance (large size effect). However, the interaction between customer coordination and size was directly and negatively related to flexibility performance (small size effect). The interaction between supplier coordination and clockspeed was directly and positively related to only flexibility performance. Implications for managers and academics and suggestions for future research are offered.

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Section: A Contingency Approach To Supplier and Customer Coordinationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The direct and contingency effects of supplier coordination and customer coordination on quality and flexibility performance

Jayaram

Nicolae

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Electronic supply chain management (e-SCM) can improve the operational efficiency of the firm by streamlining processes between the company and the suppliers, business partners, and customers (Li 1999(Li , 2000(Li , 2006. The existing literature (Beheshti et al 2007) explored the extent and the degree of Internet application in Swedish small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).…”

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An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution

Tan

Zhen

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Inf Syst Front

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This study presents an evolutionary approach to support dynamic enterprise modeling for enterprise process cooperative scheduling and management. In this paper, an evolutionary dynamic enterprise process modeling method was proposed from the concepts of enterprise process evolution to zero-time enterprise modeling and layered complex enterprise modeling. Based on an autonomous agent development platform, an agent-based enterprise collaborative modeling environment has been implemented by integrating several software resource agents that wrap main function modules of EPMS. Scheduling strategies, algorithms, and process-driven cooperative scheduling mechanism are also discussed.

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“…The B2B and/or B2C electronic marketing pursued by several companies including Dell, Cisco and Walmart is the extended application of virtual integration. Beheshti et al (2007) studied the Internet application of the Swedish small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the various SCM processes. The authors observed that the SMEs had the potential to improve their SC performance by increasing their Internet application.…”

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A quality integrated strategic level global supply chain model

Das

2011

International Journal of Production Research

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This paper proposes a strategic global supply chain (GSC) model that integrates critical-to-quality (CTQ) issues along with other system-based quality requirements that allow a GSC to assure product quality and safety to the primary user, preventing expensive product recall. The proposed model ensures product quality and other critical-to-business (CTB) requirements for GSCs that operate in various, multi-layered, multi-location-based suppliers and manufacturing plants by first integrating a quality-based supply management (QSM) system to GSC operations. The QSM evaluates and affiliates prospective supplier plants to supply inputs based on their performance in CTQ and other crucial quality system-based attributes. The model then integrates a CTQ-based approval process for GSC-operated manufacturing facilities that also considers CTB and standard quality management system factors. Finally, the model provides a procedure for introducing a quality monitoring process for the continuous improvement of supplier plants, as well as GSC-operated plants in its overall strategic decision making process. A numerical example illustrates the model's application among suppliers, manufacturing systems and distribution systems in a global business space.

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Electronic supply chain management applications by Swedish SMEs

Cited by 38 publications

References 24 publications

The direct and contingency effects of supplier coordination and customer coordination on quality and flexibility performance

The direct and contingency effects of supplier coordination and customer coordination on quality and flexibility performance

An approach to enterprise process dynamic modeling supporting enterprise process evolution

A quality integrated strategic level global supply chain model

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