The role of supply chain integration in the transformation of food manufacturers: a case study from China

Deng, Xu; Yong, Long

doi:10.1080/13675567.2020.1729707

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“…A prior study explores how interaction among functional units has an influence on work performance ( 59 ). In explaining this notion, the study states that INTF allows firms to improve their supply chain performance ( 60 ), thereby achieving a superior CA.…”

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The Influence of Knowledge Management Capacities on Pharmaceutical Firms Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Supply Chain Agility and Moderating Role of Inter Functional Integration

Sarfraz

Khawaja

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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This study investigates the factors such as knowledge management capacities and their positive influence on firm competitive advantage or the supply chain agility of the firm and the underlying mechanisms (supply chain agility) that facilitate the firm's performance and leads to firm competitive advantage. It also explores the moderating role of inter-functional integration. We have collected the data from the 308 supply chain managers of pharmaceutical firms in Pakistan and questionnaires were used for data collection with multi-item scales already developed and validated. The findings suggest that knowledge management capacities significantly influence a firm's competitive advantage or supply chain agility. The supply chain agility fully mediates between absorptive capacity, transformative capacity, and firm competitive advantage. Further, supply chain agility partially mediates between inventive capacity and firm competitive advantage. Meanwhile, inter-functional integration moderates the relationship between supply chain agility and firm competitive advantage, with their positive relationship strengthening when inter-functional integration is high. The study provides empirical evidence that knowledge management capacities (such as absorptive capacity, transformative capacity, and inventive capacity), supply chain agility, and inter-functional can be important factors in improving firm performance.

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The Influence of Knowledge Management Capacities on Pharmaceutical Firms Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Supply Chain Agility and Moderating Role of Inter Functional Integration

Sarfraz

Khawaja

et al. 2022

Front. Public Health

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“…Although in practice, digitalization has brought huge changes to retailers' supply chain management (SCM), recent studies on digitalization has focused predominantly on the manufacturing and found that it leads to significant changes to manufacturing supply chains (e.g. Rakowski, 2015;Xu and Long, 2020), including the development of new products and services, operations, people and organizational management, business models, etc. Additionally, previous studies linking digitalization and human resource management (HRM) claimed a more capable HC creates more digital innovations in manufacturing sector (e.g.…”

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Linking digitalization and human capital to shape supply chain integration in omni-channel retailing

Sang-Hwa¹,

Shi²,

Song³

et al. 2021

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PurposeSupply chain integration (SCI) is key to implementing omni-channel retailing (OCR) strategy. In this paper, the authors explore the role of digitalization as a driver of SCI, as well the role of human capital (HC) in digitalization, using a knowledge management (KM) perspective.Design/methodology/approachAn empirical study was conducted using survey research. A sample of 188 omni-channel retailers in the Chinese market was analyzed using factor analysis and structured equation modeling (SEM) to examine the hypotheses presented in the conceptual model.FindingsThis study reveals that HC is positively related to the level of a firm's digitalization in OCR, and that digitalization is positively related to the retailer's SCI. Moreover, the authors found that employees' capital has a greater impact on digitalization than managers' capital, while digitalization has a stronger driving effect on internal and customer integration.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings suggest that although digitalization requires retailers to accept the long-term investment challenges, it has a significant positive effect on the key of OCR strategy implementation, i.e. SCI. The findings also provide evidence for the application of KM in OCR, as this theoretical lens enriches our understanding of the phenomena of SCI in OCR and provides explanation to our results by linking digitalization and HC.Originality/valueDigitalization is quantified and examined in OCR. Moreover, this study reveals the importance of HC on the implementation of digitalization and the different effects of digitalization on each dimension of SCI.

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“…The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic had many negative impacts on the logistic industry. Firstly, transportation restrictions hit the inter-regional trade, which may increase the disruption risk to supply chain ( Choi, 2021 ) Policies to prevent the spread of the virus, such as domestic lockdowns, international border closures, and community social distancing, have interrupted the transportation of products in some areas, creating supply shortages between regions ( Richardson, 2020 ; Sharma et al, 2020 ; Xu & Long, 2021 ). Secondly, the pandemic-induced downturn in manufacture reduced logistic demand ( Maria del Rio-Chanona, Mealy, Pichler, Lafond, & Doyne Farmer, 2020 ; Notteboom et al, 2021 ).…”

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“…Moreover, the lockdown policy brings higher economic costs than the infection itself ( Chen, Liu, Luo, & Song, 2020 ). The policies to prevent the spread of the virus, such as domestic lockdown, international border closures and community social distancing, interrupted in the transport of goods in some areas, which led to supply shortages between regions ( Ivanov, 2020 ; Remko, 2020a McMaster et al, 2020 ; Xu & Long, 2021 ). However, most of these studies are conceptual or simulations ( Chesbrough, 2020 ; Maliszewska et al, 2020 ; Queiroz et al, 2020 ), and very little research quantitatively estimate the loss of logistics caused by the COVID-19 due to lack of data ( Fang & Zhang, 2021 ; Ferrari et al, 2021 ; Jomthanachai et al, 2021 ).…”

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Flow of goods to the shock of COVID-19 and toll-free highway policy: Evidence from logistics data in China

Guo

2022

Research in Transportation Economics

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The role of supply chain integration in the transformation of food manufacturers: a case study from China

Cited by 18 publications

References 35 publications

The Influence of Knowledge Management Capacities on Pharmaceutical Firms Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Supply Chain Agility and Moderating Role of Inter Functional Integration

The Influence of Knowledge Management Capacities on Pharmaceutical Firms Competitive Advantage: The Mediating Role of Supply Chain Agility and Moderating Role of Inter Functional Integration

Linking digitalization and human capital to shape supply chain integration in omni-channel retailing

Flow of goods to the shock of COVID-19 and toll-free highway policy: Evidence from logistics data in China

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