Evolutionary strategy to apply information and communication technology: a case study in the apparel industry

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By underlining the relevance of the use of ICTs, knowledge sharing and electronic markets for SMEs, it emerges the need for stimulating a debate on digitisation process of supply chain management (SCM). Electronic infrastructure in the service sector are reducing each kind of cost and improving multiply buyer-supplier relationships, facilitating negotiations and transactions. However, since the coordination costs are still high, the use of ICTs is limited. This phenomenon thus attracts the interests of scholars and practitioners. Although it still needs to further investigate. Especially, the optimal use of ICTs within SMEs' SCM have not been studied yet. Therefore, by leveraging on four proxies: ICTs specialised human resources, knowledge sharing activities, buyer-supplier relationships, adoption of electronic markets this optimal was analysed via structural equation modelling based on a sample of 1254 SMEs operating in the service sector in Italy.

Section: Study Of Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

A multiple buyer – supplier relationship in the context of SMEs’ digital supply chain management

Scuotto

Caputo

Villasalero

et al. 2017

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“…Literature has suggested that IT integration can impact on IT business value. For example, recently, Ding et al (2011) state that "integration is the key" emphasising the importance of intra-and inter-organisational integration of IT systems. Ji-fan Ren, et al (2016) haveidentified that systems integration as a key indicator of system quality contributes to better business value and firm performance in a big data environment.…”

Section: Moderating Role Of Level Of Integration Of It With Business mentioning

confidence: 99%

Adoption of business analytics and impact on performance: a qualitative study in retail

Ramanathan

Philpott

Duan

et al. 2017

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This paper describes a qualitative study aimed at understanding issues faced by retail firms when they start a project of implementing Business Analytics (BA) and understanding the impact of BA implementation on business performance. Our study is informed by prior literature and the theoretical perspectives of the Technology-Organisation-Environment (TOE) framework but is not constrained by this theory. Using case studies of nine retailers in the UK, we have found support for the link between TOE elements and adoption. In addition, we have identified more interesting involvement of additional factors in ensuring how firms could maximise benefit derived from BA and traditional TOE factors that potentially could have additional impacts different from the ones. For example, there appears a link between adoption of BA and business performance (including performance in terms of environmental sustainability), and this link is moderated by the level of BA adoption, IT integration and trust.

“…In the domain of CPFR, Yuan et al (2010) demonstrated that CPFR by necessity places significant attention on the sharing of customer demand information among all trading partners, with the manufacturer coordinating activities from the production operation plans to enhance the efficiency of the supply chain. Although collaborative schemes have originated from and still tend to focus on the grocery sector (Fliedner 2003;Chen et al 2007;Småros 2007), a wide number of other sectors have used and benefited from CPFR implementation, as examples, the automotive (Dannenberg and Kleinhans 2004;Liker and Wu 2006;Paqarizi and Hsu 2013), apparel (Ding et al 2011), agricultural (Du et al 2009;Fang and Meng 2010) and hospital (Lin and Ho 2014) supply chains.…”

Section: Literature Review As a Technique Cpfr Originated From The Vmentioning

confidence: 99%

A hybrid approach to the study of CPFR implementation enablers

Panahifar

Byrne

Heavey

2015

Abstract:Collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) is one of the most important, but also one of the most difficult collaborative strategies in supply chain management. CPFR has been well documented in past research as providing significant benefit to those that implement it well. It has also been noted that CPFR take up has been significantly lower than initially expected. The main reason for this slow up take is the general recognition that successful implementation of CPFR is not a trivial task and the fact that it inflicts dramatic changes to the 'usual' way of doing business. Based on the premise that CPFR has significant positive potential for supply chain collaboration, the motivation of this paper is to review CPFR enablers and to develop a model which addresses the most significant ones. To complete this task a hybrid modeling approach integrating fuzzy extended analytical hierarchy process (FEAHP) and interpretive structural modeling (ISM) is proposed. The model developed is based on an identified gap by the automotive sector and embeds expert opinion, from two separate industrial groups in the automotive sector through the use of workshops. Although potential success factors for CPFR implementation can vary across somewhat between differing supply chains, the results maintain wider general applicability due to the many common issues across sectors. The paper highlights the need for decision makers to be aware of the most influential enablers prior to a CPFR implementation project and to understand the relationships between these enablers.