Key antecedents and practices for Supply Chain Management adoption in project contexts

Abstract

An adequate identification of antecedents is recognized as fundamental in order to set the basis for connecting the inter-organizational networks in a SCM perspective. This work aims to identify key antecedents of SCM in a project-based environment by using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). This is firstly useful in order to highlight the relationships among the antecedents and to deduce priority for their achievement. The findings provide a hierarchical perspective of the 16 identified antecedents. In particular, three macro-classes of prerequisites were defined: cross-organizational cooperation, rules and procedures -accessibility, and super-ordinate goals. Moreover, results from a longitudinal and illustrative case study are also presented in order to compare the out-coming ISM model with evidence from a success case in the Yacht-building context so offering interesting insights about the implementation process. From a managerial perspective, the proposed model offers a conceptual path for SCM adoption, emphasizing most critical issues that have to be considered and organized in this complex and unpredictable setting.

A Coordinated Approach for Supply-Chain Tracking in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry

“…A coordinated SCM describes the processes that revolve around the three traditional stages in the supply-chain: Procurement, production, and distribution. It includes coordinated actions from three aspects, such as: Buyer-vendor coordination for the procurement of materials or equipment, production-distribution coordination for transportation of the products, and inventory-distribution coordination for the optimal inventory levels [27,28]. The actions would become more difficult in LNG projects due to their huge project-size, the number of stakeholders involved, and the project's often remote location.…”

Programación de Abastecimiento de Materiales en Proyectos mediante Métodos de Lote Dinámico

“…Para lograr este objetivo de verificación del supuesto referido, se utiliza la prueba de Peterson -Silver, la cual considera una medición de la variabilidad de la demanda, a través de un análisis y comparación de la suma de cuadrados en la colección de datos de la demanda. De esta manera, la prueba estadística de Peterson -Silver describe la forma de estimación de este coeficiente de variabilidad tal como se presenta en (1). Obteniendo dos contrastes de decisión frente a su resultado [5] [6].…”

“…En el contexto de las empresas basadas en proyectos, la programación del abastecimiento de materiales y servicios debe considerar las características de cada proyecto, las especificaciones técnicas y de diseño, las condiciones de temporalidad y la definición de las etapas para su ejecución [1].…”

Trends of Digital Transformation in the Shipbuilding Sector

“…This lack of productivity, which affects project-based industries (as shipbuilding), has been steadily discussed by both academics and practitioners [6][7][8], which have been suggesting and proposing measures to increase their performance. At an early stage, innovative working methods from better organization of the processes are involved [9], such as the promotion of a more efficient split of work in order to improve the coordination within and across companies involved through the supply chain [10]. Then, due to the introduction of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, emerging technological capacities, to design better products, improve the efficiency of their services, and offer new value-added processes, were applied.…”