The link between supply chain fit and financial performance of the firm |
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Authors: | Stephan M. Wagner Pan Theo Grosse-Ruyken Feryal Erhun |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Scheuchzerstrasse 7, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland;2. Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA 94305, USA |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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Keywords: | Supply chain management Operations strategy Supply chain fit Empirical analysis Firm performance |
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