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Supply chain alignment for improved business performance : an empirical study
Full text linkPurpose:
– This study aims to explain how supply chain alignment, which remains a major challenge for supply chains, can be achieved and its implications for business performance (BP) by testing the strengths of the relationships between previously identified enablers, supply chain alignment and BP.
Design/methodology/approach:
– A literature review develops hypotheses on the relationships between enablers, alignment and BP. A survey of medium-to-large UK manufacturing companies was conducted where the sample comprised 151 randomly selected companies, and the response rate was 56 per cent. Partial least square regression was used to test the hypothesis.
Findings:
– Two types of supply chain alignment are defined – shareholder and customer – but only customer alignment (CA) has a direct positive impact on BP, while shareholder alignment (SA) is its antecedent. Top management support was shown to be an enabler of both shareholder and CA, while organisation structure, information sharing and performance measurement system enabled SA, while internal relational behaviour enabled CA.
Research limitations/implications:
– Supply chain management research lacks knowledge on exactly how supply chain alignment can be achieved and what BP implications it has. This research provides a tested conceptual model to address this gap.
Practical implications:
– The refined conceptual model provides precise guidance to practitioners on how to improve BP through supply chain alignment.
Originality/value:
– Whilst the strategic management literature emphasizes the importance of SA, this study reveals another crucial alignment – CA – and shows its direct positive impact on BP
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Full text linkCollaborative Supply Chain Planning and Coordination:An Empirical Study of Supply Responsiveness, Coordination and Coordinated Responsiveness
No full textThis thesis contains main results from an industrial PhD research in the areas of supply chain strategy, planning, and coordination. It applies the concepts of responsiveness and coordination to reduce mismatch of supply and demand, especially for a volatile and seasonal supply chain. It involves a series of case studies on the process of planning coordination between a toy manufacturer (LEGO Company) and its major European customers (toy retailers). The thesis presents a plurality of six selected research papers and a main report. These research papers provide case analyses while the main report generalizes their key findings, insights, and implications to theory and practice. The thesis concludes several theoretical frameworks and contributions to the theory of responsiveness and supply chain coordination. The thesis begins with analyzing four different responsiveness strategies – differentiating products, differentiating retailers, accurate response (with forecast adjustment and premature replenishment), quick response (order-penetration-point relocation and lead-time reduction). These analyses extend the Fisher Model of responsiveness and refine six propositions or principles of responsiveness. The thesis further explains the multi-characteristics of seasonal products in their life cycles and concludes an integrated framework of responsiveness. For coordination issue, the thesis develops a new bullwhip measure, and then quantifies and explains bullwhip effects in the toy supply chain. It also reveals how information sharing and its favourable conditions influence the bullwhip effects. These results enhance understanding of the coordination problems before coordination processes are initiated. The cores of this thesis are the observed patterns of coordination processes, behaviour and strategies between the toy manufacturer and three European retailers. These three case studies provide evidences that the toy manufacturer and the retailers followed some particular patterns of planning coordination processes; they also practised some patterns of coordination behaviour during the coordination processes, particularly the behaviour of risk-taking/avoidance, conflict resolutions, and self-interest. All these lead to conclusion of five propositions or principles of supply chain coordination, and the theory of coordination process and behaviour. Combining the propositions of responsiveness and coordination, the thesis concludes a concept called Coordinated Responsiveness. It finally discusses the main contributions and implications of this research, the reflections on the research process and some future research
Designing supply chain strategy by using shared information
No full textThis case study describes a supply chain redesign project in LEGO Company, a toy manufacturer from Denmark. The toy manufacturer faced extreme seasonality and unpredictable demands. It used to supply toys with a physically responsive supply chain, which produced according to monthly forecasts of retailer demands, and allocated inventories along the supply chain to ensure high fill-rates to its customers (the toy retailers). However, this supply chain strategy was ineffective. It generated high mismatch of supply and demand, and consequently high costs on obsolete inventory, markdown and lost sales. The supply chain redesign project collected handful of information to determine the appropriate levels of supply responsiveness for different products and retailers. However, the project team was indecisive on two choices: 1) to produce according to the real consumer demands using the shared consumer demand information or 2) to produce according to different retailer demands. The project realized that it was not so difficult to collect data, but the main difficulty was to compare these two choices and to decide how the future supply chain should be. This case demands managers or students to apply their knowledge of Supply Chain Management to help the project in making the right choice. For each choice, there is a need to specify the right supply chain strategy, which includes the forecast process, order penetration points, lead-time, production frequency and batch-size, production principle, inventory policy, and information sharing
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Are we moving beyond voluntary employee green behaviour (EGB)? exploring the nature of EGBs in a SC context from case studies
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