供应链整合对企业竞争力及绩效影响的实证分析—以西南地区制造企业为例

以西南地区的152家制造企业为样本,并构建供应链整合对企业竞争力及绩效影响研究模型,分别对西南地区的制造企业的供应链整合、资源能力、竞争优势与绩效间关系进行了分析。结果表明,供应链整合对企业竞争力及绩效的正向影响是显著的,同时还能通过竞争优势对企业绩效产生间接影响;资源能力不能显著影响企业绩效,但可以通过对供应链整合的中间作用来影响企业绩效;企业的资源能力与供应链整合均可以影响竞争优势,同时企业的竞争优势能显著促进企业绩效的提高。     

蔬菜加工企业供应链管理研究

鉴于供应链管理发展的大趋势,供应链之间的竞争将会成为企业竞争的主流竞争方式,实施供应链管理成为企业保持长久竞争优势的最佳选择。对于蔬菜加工企业来说,实施供应链管理是其实现竞争力进一步提高的有效途径。本文在对我国蔬菜加工企业发展现状分析的基础上,提出了蔬菜加工企业实施供应链管理的有效措施。     

企业物流“独立自主”势在必行

现代企业间的竞争其实是供应链与供应链的竞争,其中,物流也是优胜企业的核心竞争优势之一。要摆脱物流传统的“包袱”角色,让物流贡献于供应链增值,企业物流的“独立自主”势在必行。     

基于供应链管理环境下的扩展企业文化特点分析

经济全球化和顾客消费个巨化促进了企业之间的竞争,供应链管理成为企业获取竞争优势的关键.企业的竞争也变成了供应链之间的竞争,基于供应链管理环境下的扩展企业文化出现了许多新的特点.     

利用供应链管理提高企业的竞争优势

竞争优势是企业在激烈的市场中存在和发展的关键。供应链管理作为现代企业管理的重要手段，连接供应商和销售商，降低了企业的成本，实现了产品的快速和及时的生产。为了实现供应链管理，需要对企业的流程进行重组，而企业的信息化建设是企业实施供应链管理的必要条件。本文从供应链管理的思想出发，阐述了供应链是怎样提高企业的竞争优势的。最后，提出了实施供应链管理的一些措施。     

供应链企业绩效评价与现行企业绩效评价的比较研究

随着经济全球化的发展,企业之间的竞争已经发展成为供应链之间的竞争,现行企业绩效评价体系不能有效地反映供应链企业的经营状况和发展趋势。本文通过对供应链企业绩效评价与现行企业绩效评价的国内外研究现状进行了综述,介绍了供应链企业绩效评价的指标体系和现行企业绩效评价的指标体系,在此基础上对指标体系进行了理论上的比较研究,指出了供应链企业绩效评价体系的优势和特点。     

战略供应链逐渐成为中国企业竞争的关键优势

根据《普华永道2013全球供应链调查》，中国企业越来越把战略供应链看作关键的竞争优势。在接受调查的中国企业负责供应链管理的高管中，有46％的人表示其所在企业把供应链视为一种战略资产，这与全球调查的结果相符合。     

基于供应链管理的企业运作模式分析

<正>随着全球经济一体化和信息技术与网络经济的深入发 展,经济发展环境愈来愈复杂,竞争日趋激烈,商业竞争不再 是企业与企业之间的竞争,而是供应链与供应链之间的竞争。 处在国际市场前沿的跨国公司、大企业纷纷把供应链管理作 为企业全球竞争的重要战略,以此获取竞争优势,增强市场竞 争力。     

旨在提高竞争优势的供应链管理

供应链是一个复杂的网链系统,在竞争日益激烈的市场环境中,只有不断简化和优化供应链管理,才能使企业在竞争中获得更多的优势,提高企业竞争能力,提升企业的经营效益。     

企业供应链风险控制分析

从价值角度看,企业与其上下游企业结成联盟,组成供应链无疑是为了获得和保持竞争优势,以应对日趋激烈的市场竞争。但是由于结盟企业本身是一种竞争、协作的关系,而且它又是建立在不完全契约形式上的,因此供应链从建立之初本身的稳定性、持续性就隐含着巨大的风险。企业要想实现供应链目标,分析和了解其风险,并明确控制策略是非常必要的。一、企业供应链风险特点(一)独特性供应链风险主要来自组成供应链的各企业之间的关系。一方面供应链中各成员企业作为独立的市场主体有各自     

The effects of innovation–cost strategy, knowledge, and action in the supply chain on firm performance

Despite the importance of supply chains within today's economy, we know little about how the knowledge of supply chains can contribute to superior performance at the firm level. Building on the resource-based view, knowledge-based view and strategic choice theory, we develop hypotheses linking two knowledge-driven supply chain phenomena (i.e., knowledge development capacity and intellectual capital), innovation–cost strategy, and action to firm-level performance. Using survey and archival data from 489 firms, we found that performance is influenced by how well knowledge development capacity and intellectual capital efforts complement alternative chain strategies. More specifically, each strategy type requires different constellations of knowledge development capacity and intellectual capital to enhance action and create superior firm performance. These results highlight the importance of supply chain phenomena for firm-level performance, and more broadly, the value of supply chains as a competitive weapon in contemporary firms.     

Product-Line Length as a Competitive Tool

The increasing number of consumer goods and services offered in recent years suggests that product-line extensions have become a favored strategy of product managers. A larger assortment, it is often argued, keeps customers loyal and allows firms to charge higher prices. There is disagreement, however, about the extent to which a longer product line translates into higher profits. We develop an econometric model derived from a game-theoretic perspective that explicitly considers firms' use of product-line length as a competitive tool. On the demand side, we analytically establish the link between consumer choice and the length of the product line. Based on our derivations, we include a measure of line length in the utility function to investigate consumer preference for variety using a brand-level discrete-choice model. The supply side is characterized by price and line length competition between oligopolistic firms. For the empirical analysis we use market-level data for the yogurt category. We find that there are decreasing returns to product-line length. Based on a series of "what-if" experiments, we derive recommendations for effective product line decisions in a competitive environment.     

A resource orchestration view of supply chain traceability and transparency bundles for competitive advantage

The literature has mostly examined supply chain (SC) traceability and SC transparency separately, ignoring the mutually constitutive relationship of these two related constructs. We draw on the resource orchestration theory and the causal complexity perspective to conceptualize and validate SC traceability and SC transparency as interrelated organizational capabilities that may mutually enhance or compensate each other for competitive advantage. We constructed an original sample from two sources to empirically test this conceptualization using fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Our empirical results reveal that the ability of firms to leverage SC traceability for a high financial performance is contingent upon creating a transparency perception of SC with a wide range of stakeholders. Our results also identified the firm size and its international presence, as having a significant bearing on the ability of firms to leverage SC traceability and SC transparency capabilities for a competitive advantage.     

Perspectives on risk management in supply chains

Managing risk in supply chains is an important topic in supply chain management. The topic's importance is due to several industry trends currently in place: increase in strategic outsourcing by firms, globalizations of markets, increasing reliance on suppliers for specialized capabilities and innovation, reliance on supply networks for competitive advantage, and emergence of information technologies that make it possible to control and coordinate extended supply chains. This article identifies some important aspects of risk management in supply chains and summarizes the four articles that are in this special issue. This emerging area of research interest deserves considerable attention and it is our hope that the articles in this special issue would spur additional research on this important topic.     

Supply chain fragmentation,input–output tables and spillovers from foreign direct investment

The literature on the impact of multinationals on domestic firms' productivity points to supply chain linkages with multinational firms as the main channel for positive spillover effects. Local and multinational firms' relative positions in the supply chain are typically determined through the use of input–output tables. For a panel of Romanian firms, we show that the level of industry aggregation in these tables and the applied spillover definitions bear an important impact on estimated spillover effects. We find that the total impact of foreign presence – irrespective of the channel – is considerably larger when detailed IO-tables are used. When more aggregated tables are used, one is likely to misclassify a considerable number of supplier–client activity as within-industry competitive activity. Including within-industry supply and use in the measures of supplier–client activity results in a further increase of the spillover effect on local suppliers, whereas the within-industry spillover effect disappears.     

Efficiency meets accountability: Performance implications of supply chain configuration, control, and capabilities

The public increasingly holds firms accountable for social and environmental outcomes, such as product toxicity problems and human rights violations, throughout their global supply chains. How can companies improve the social and environmental performance within their supply chains, particularly as other competitive pressures, such as cost and quality, continue to escalate? Starting from an efficient versus responsive supply chain framework, we develop an integrative model that blends together elements of supply chain configuration, stakeholder management, and capability development. Specifically, we spotlight the dimensions of control and accountability that collectively determine stakeholder exposure, and show how this new construct affects the linkages between supply chain capabilities, configuration, and performance. In particular, this analysis reveals that the nature of stakeholder exposure determines how social/environmental technical and relational capabilities impact social and environmental outcomes. We conclude with implications for research and practice, discussing how current supply chain theories must be extended to incorporate external stakeholders, to clarify strategies and identify potential pitfalls, and to better predict performance outcomes.     

On technological change, transfer and business characteristics: Some inferences from twelve case studies emanating from the national engineering laboratory

This paper examines two vital issues associated with technology transfer; what types of firms most rapidly adopt new technologies and what types of market structures and demand conditions are most conducive to technical change? The analysis is effected via the cases of twelve firms associated with the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL) whose contribution as an innovation facilitator was seen to vary from case to case. The bulk of the cases seem to support Schmookler's (1967) view that innovation is stimulated by perceived profits. The firms in the sample were tending to operate in rivalrous supply conditions and were engaged in innovation with a view to either maintaining market share or gaining a competitive advantage.     

Strategic supply and the management of inter- and intra-organisational relationships

As companies attempt to shed old habits and begin to view procurement as a strategic resource from which a competitive advantage can be gained, there is a great deal of corporate baggage that must be shed. More importantly, there is a new mindset that must be instilled both in procurement and across the firm. Strategic supply symbolizes the importance of enterprise wide thinking where functional units inside the firm and key suppliers from the firm's supply chain all work in concert to bring value to the marketplace. This paper presents data from the US and the UK that helps us better understand and address issues that are key to managing across independent supply chain partners. We also address some of the barriers to implementing such a supply strategy. These barriers exist inside the firm as well as between the firms at its key suppliers. Whilst we acknowledge that progress is being made, however the data suggest that the journey is far from over.     

基于EVA视角的供应链业绩评价

本文认为,随着经济全球化的发展,公司之间的竞争已经演化为供应链之间的竞争。为实现供应链目标与优化供应链业绩,公司需要进行业绩评价并确定恰当的业绩评价指标。EVA分析框架能够同时计量和分析多家公司业绩,构建反映供应链运营业绩的指标并将其与股东价值动因直接联系起来,从而有助于提高供应链中各家公司的股东价值,实现各家公司行为与供应链目标的协调一致。     

Sustainable evaluation and verification in supply chains: Aligning and leveraging accountability to stakeholders

Managers are being challenged by multiple (and diverse) stakeholders, which have variety of expectations and informational needs about their firm’s supply chains. Collectively, these expectations and needs form a multi-faceted view of stakeholder accountability, namely the extent to which a firm justifies behaviors and actions across its extended supply chain to stakeholders. To date, sustainable supply chain management research has largely focused on monitoring as a self-managed set of narrowly defined evaluative activities employed by firms to provide stakeholder accountability. Nevertheless, evidence is emerging that firms have developed a wide variety of monitoring systems in order to align with stakeholders’ expectations and leverage accountability to stakeholders. Drawing from the accounting literature, we synthesize a model that proposes how firms might address accountability for sustainability issues in their supply chain. At its core, the construct of sustainable evaluation and verification (SEV) captures three interrelated dimensions: inclusivity, scope, and disclosure. These dimensions characterize how supply chain processes might identify key measures, collect and process data, and finally, verify materiality, reliability and accuracy of any data and resulting information. As a result, the concept of monitoring is significantly extended, while also considering how different stakeholders can play diverse, active roles as metrics are established, audits are conducted, and information is validated. Also, several antecedents of SEV systems are explored. Finally, the means by which an SEV system can create a competitive advantage are investigated.