Supply chain management maturity and performance in SMEs

Supply chain maturity models attempt to disseminate best practices in supply chain management (SCM). One basic idea behind these models is that increased maturity will lead to improved supply chain performance, which in turn will lead to improved financial performance. There is, however, little empirical evidence about the relationship between supply chain (SC) maturity and financial performance, specifically in SMEs. The results of this study indicate that there is a strong relationship between SCM maturity and SC performance in SMEs, as well as some relationships between SCM maturity and financial performance. One conclusion is that if firms use maturity indicators in the Supply Chain Operations Reference areas to improve their processes, they will most likely achieve positive effects on supply chain performance and probably also on financial performance.     

Strategic supply management,quality initiatives,and organizational performance

Researchers in supply chain management have found over the past two decades that supply management should be not merely a purchasing function but a strategic tool for supply chain integration. Supply management, the cornerstone of the integration of industrial supply chains, has evolved as a key research area. Based on quantitative and qualitative investigations of 225 electronics manufacturing firms, we examine the organizational impacts of strategic supply management (SSM) and the contexts of company size, process type, ISO 9000 certification, and quality management (QM) implementation that facilitate such an endeavor. We reveal that SSM is essentially a quality management initiative that requires bilateral efforts for continuous improvement and thus is not associated with the basic requirements of ISO 9000. We find that SSM improves on-time shipments, reduces operational costs, and leads to customer satisfaction and improved business performance. Developed based on contemporary premises in supply chain and QM, this research refines our understanding of the relationships among quality initiatives, SSM, and organizational performance.     

How to respond to competitors' green success for improving performance: The moderating role of organizational ambidexterity

With increasing environmental competitions between companies, there is a pressing need to explore how the environmental pressures from rivals influence focal firms' actions and the subsequent performance consequences. On the basis of social contagion theory and upper echelons theory, we examine whether firms respond to competitors' green success through green supplier integration, which further improves firm performance, and the moderating effect of organizational ambidexterity. The research explores hypothesized relationships adopting hierarchical regression analysis and bootstrapping method by collecting survey data from 206 Chinese manufacturers. Our findings suggest that competitors' green success positively influences green supplier integration. Green supplier integration mediates the impacts of competitors' green success on financial and environmental performance. In addition, the combined dimension of organizational ambidexterity plays a positive moderating role in the impacts of green supplier integration on financial and environmental performance. This study expands previous literature and managers' practices on green supply chain management.     

基于Supply—Hub的生鲜农产品快速反应配送驱动机制研究

针对生鲜农产品物流配送低效率、高损耗等现象，文中构建基于Supply—Hub的生鲜农产品供应链物流快速反应系统框架。通过建立系统二级驱动指标随机需求驱动动态模型，结合层次分析法（AHP）和计算机仿真分析农产品供应链物流一级决策指标运作机制、动态性能和反应规律。研究结果表明，物流中心协同性直接影响系统整体响应能力，且合理的提前期一致性对安全库存水平、配送质量和服务能力具有直接相关性。     

Demand chain management in manufacturing and services: web-based integration, drivers and performance

This paper investigated the relationship between Internet-enabled supply chain integration strategies and performance in manufacturing and services. It summarizes the literature on demand and supply integration and describes four web-based strategies. A stratified random sample was collected from UK manufacturers and services, and there was strong evidence that demand chain management (DCM) led to the highest performance in manufacturing, but few signs of DCM in services. Manufacturers and services relying on only web-based demand or supply integration outperformed their low integration counterparts, but lagged DCM in manufacturing. The study also investigated DCM adoption drivers and found that rational efficiency and bandwagon effects drove change. The findings have some important implications for theory as well as for manufacturing and service companies interested in improving their performance.     

基于供应链的第三方物流客户关系管理系统的构建

供应链管理与客户关系管理的整合可以增强供应链上企业特别是第三方物流企业的竞争能力。文中在分析基于供应链管理的第三物流客户关系管理的主要内容基础上,探讨了基于供应链的第三方物流客户关系管理系统构建的原则及系统结构与运行模式的设计思路。     

How supply chain architecture and product architecture impact firm performance: An empirical examination

In order to enhance performance, manufacturing firms are building various capabilities and utilizing supply chain networks that are geographically dispersed around the globe. This study examines how decisions related to supply chain architecture and product architecture influence organizational competitiveness. Building on the co-specialization perspective, we evaluate the performance implications of product modularity and supply chain agility. While, product modularity constitutes a product configuration related to sourcing and assembling of products, supply chain agility is a supply chain configuration related to velocity (sensing, comprehending, and responding) and visibility (supplier network, internal operations, and external environment). Both the product and supply chain architectural decisions can impact performance, individually and in conjunction with each other. We empirically test the hypothesized relationships using data collected from 103 manufacturing firms. Results show that supply chain agility and product modularity directly enhance responsiveness and enable organizations to reduce cost. Furthermore, supply chain agility partially mediates the relationship between product modularity and both responsiveness and cost reduction. We elaborate on the key contributions of this study for both research and practice, discuss limitations, and also offer various avenues for further research.     

Firm's resilience to supply chain disruptions: Scale development and empirical examination

This paper expands our understanding of factors that contribute to development of firm resilience to supply chain disruptions. In doing so, we operationalize firm resilience to understand how supply chain disruption orientated firms can develop resilience to supply chain disruptions. We find that supply chain disruption orientation alone is not enough for a firm to develop resilience. Supply chain disruption oriented firms require the ability to reconfigure resources or have a risk management resource infrastructure to develop resilience. The way in which supply chain disruption oriented firms develop resilience through resource reconfiguration or risk management infrastructure depends on the context of the disruption as high impact or low impact. In a high impact disruption context, resource reconfiguration fully mediates the relationship between supply chain disruption orientation and firm resilience. In a low impact disruption context, supply chain disruption orientation and risk management infrastructure have a synergistic effect on developing firm resilience.     

The link between supply chain fit and financial performance of the firm

The bottom-line financial impact of supply chain management has been of continuing interest. Building on the operations strategy literature, Fisher's (1997) conceptual framework, a survey of 259 U.S. and European manufacturing firms, and secondary financial data, we investigate the relationship between supply chain fit (i.e., strategic consistencies between the products’ supply and demand uncertainty and the underlying supply chain design) and the financial performance of the firm. The findings indicate that the higher the supply chain fit, the higher the Return on Assets (ROA) of the firm, and that firms with a negative misfit show a lower performance than firms with a positive misfit.     

浅析农产品供应链物流的金融模式

农产品供应链物流指的是农产品在营销过程中,在供应链上所有物流的统称。农产品供应链物流的金融模式一方面指具有发展能力的物流企业为农产品营销提供金融支持,另一方面是指银行为农产品供应链物流提供金融支持。因此,农产品在营销过程中,供应链物流、金融均起到不可替代的作用。文中分析了农产品供应链物流的落后现状,提出金融支持是解决农产品供应链物流困境的唯一出路。     

Supply chain practice and information sharing

Effective supply chain practice and information sharing enhances the current supply chain management environment. The purpose of this study is to investigate the integration of information sharing and supply chain practice in supply chain management. Data from 125 North American manufacturing firms were collected. The results show that (1) effective information sharing significantly enhances effective supply chain practice; (2) supply chain dynamism has significant positive influence on effective information sharing as well as effective supply chain practice. Supply chain dynamism has more influence on information sharing than supply chain practice; (3) and effective supply chain practice becomes more important when the level of information sharing increases. The findings show that both effective information sharing and effective supply chain practice are critical in achieving good supply chain performance.     

基于案例推理的供应链Web服务集成框架

供应链管理（SCM）的核心是处于供应链各个环节的组织机构之间的协同和一体化运作.随着对供应链应用系统的深入集成的需求越来越迫切,需要把跨部门或跨组织的Web服务集成起来协调运行以提供一体化服务.本文结合供应链条件下的Web服务集成问题,提出了一种基于案例推理（CBR）的供应链Web服务集成框架.     

Cross-functional alignment in supply chain planning: A case study of sales and operations planning

In most organizations, supply chain planning is a cross-functional effort. However, functional areas such as sales, marketing, finance, and operations traditionally specialize in portions of the planning activities, which results in conflicts over expectations, preferences, and priorities. We report findings from a detailed case analysis of a supply chain planning process that seemingly weathers these cross-functional conflicts. In contrast to traditional research on this area, which focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite formal functional incentives that did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive landscape and the planning process, we identify process as a mediator that can affect organizational outcomes. Thus, organizations may be capable of integration while functions retain different incentives and orientations to maintain focus on their stakeholders’ needs. Through iterative coding, we identify the attributes of the planning process that can drive planning performance—information, procedural, and alignment quality—but also find evidence that achieving alignment in the execution of plans can be more important than informational and procedural quality. In addition to process attributes, we also identify social elements that influenced the performance of the planning process and place the information processing attributes within a broader social and organizational context.     

第四方物流运作模式下供应链集成管理的优化

供应链管理围绕核心企业,把握控制产业链条上企业的信息流、物流、资金流,为降低运作成本,保证产销平衡、降低产品库存、缩短交货周期、满足客户需求、降低运营成本等管理上的优化做出了贡献。随着物流技术的不断发展,第四方物流对物流的集成优化作用越来越明显,如何借助第四方物流理论,来提升供应链集成管理的水平,成为企业关注的重要方面之一。据此,探讨第四方物流运作模式对供应链管理在多功能流程优化,业务流程再造等方面的运用及实践,以此为供应链管理优化的研究提供新的思路。     

The contingency effects of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply chain integration and operational performance

This paper extends prior supply chain research by building and empirically testing a theoretical model of the contingency effects of environmental uncertainty (EU) on the relationships between three dimensions of supply chain integration and four dimensions of operational performance. Based on the contingency and organizational information processing theories, we argue that under a high EU, the associations between supplier/customer integration, and delivery and flexibility performance, and those between internal integration, and product quality and production cost, will be strengthened. These theoretical propositions are largely confirmed by multi-group and structural path analyses of survey responses collected from 151 of Thailand's automotive manufacturing plants. This paper contributes to operations management contingency research and provides theory-driven and empirically proven explanations for managers to differentiate the effects of internal and external integration efforts under different environmental conditions.     

核心企业主导的供应链金融模式风险机理研究

在核心企业主导的供应链金融模式中,核心企业的主导作用会产生依赖性垄断,推动风险的发生,导致中小企业融资中屡屡出现欺诈和套取现金等不良行为。通过对供应链金融模式演变和供应链金融风险等相关分析,提出不同供应链金融模式下核心企业参与的可能性风险,并基于复杂系统理论和共生理论构建了核心企业主导的供应链金融网络拓扑结构及依赖共生模型。进一步揭示了该模式风险产生的机理及原因,完善了供应链金融风险的相关理论。最后提出引入区块链技术的分布式存储、时间戳及智能合约功能实现与供应链金融的融合,达到"去核心化"的目的,从根本上杜绝风险的产生。     

流速、流量、流向与供应链资金流协调

供应链管理作为一种跨越企业组织边界,在一个完整的流程上共享经营资源和信息,以整体优化为目标的管理模式,已成为企业获得可持续竞争能力的一种基本途径。其中资金流的协调问题是供应链得以维系的关键。基于供应链上企业之间的关系,研究供应链的资金流流转。通过分析供应链资金流协调的影响因素,从而可以促进供应链资金流的协调,提升供应链的竞争力。     

基于结构熵权法的供应链柔性模糊综合评价研究

供应链柔性是供应链绩效的关键维度,反映了供应链上下游企业对于市场环境及顾客需求变化的反应能力。在管理实践中,对企业自身供应链柔性的测度及认识具有重要的现实意义。文章致力于开发一种科学的供应链柔性测度方法,其开发过程包括三个阶段:首先,深入分析供应链柔性的定义及各维度之间的关系,在此基础上建立科学合理的供应链柔性评价模型;其次,引入主客观赋权法相结合的结构熵权法,用以确定评价模型中各维度的权重向量;最后,基于模糊数学原理,采用模糊综合评价方法对供应链柔性进行有效的评价。同时,还结合模拟案例详细阐述了模糊综合评价的原理及应用过程。     

供应链节点企业委托代理机制研究

供应链活动是将原料进行加工生产,转化出产品,最后到达客户的过程,供应链管理带来了革命性的变化。但是在供应链企业之间由于信息不对称也会存在委托代理问题。有可能发生供应链节点企业间的逆向选择和道德风险问题。为减少委托代理问题对供应链整体最优的影响,在合作的前提下,设计和优化供应商和采购商的关系,对解决委托代理问题提出建议性对策。