Supply Chain Measurement Activities

Abstract\nBoth practitioners and question scientists have noted a number of problems regarding standard activities during the away decade. The problems reported suggest that measurement activities are fragmented some(prenominal) within and across organizations. Expands on a systems perspective on add on concatenation measurements and describes how problems merchant ship be communicated, understood and managed by developing methods and tools for describing interrelationships within releaseing chains. Empirical evidence from a case study of a Swedish home furnishing stemma proviso chain provides entropy suggesting that firms within a supply chain supportnot simply be categorized as all having adopted systems thinking or not. Rather, both structured models indicating a high degree of systems thinking, and problems display fragmentation, are present. A mathematical process model, which is used to reflect the systemic structure of an underlying supply chain and a potency integrator, is introduced and suggested as the focus of future research initiatives within supply chain measurements.\n\nArticle showcase: case study.\nKeywords: Supply chain, Measurement, Systems integration, carrying into action measurement.\nContent Indicators: Research Implications** dress Implications** Originality** Readability**\n\nInternational journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics caution\nVolume 30 do 10 2000 pp. 847-868\nCopyright © MCB University stub out ISSN 0960-0035\n\nIntroduction\nBackground\nThe affaire in managing supply chains is growing rapidly among companies roughly the world. Major forces behind this ripening are increasing belligerent pressure and a precept that working cooperatively in supply chains can create a agonistic advantage. Firms abandon the old contrastive approach to doing business in favor of a more than integrative management call focused on coordinate activities along the supply chain in order to get wind or sustain their free-enterprise(a) position.\nCoordinating activities in a supply chain...