Supply-chain relationships

Alliances and Networks Supply chain relationships strategic alliances partnerships. 

Steering the portfolio for the future. Anticipating new markets, driven by societal and customer desires for a cleaner, safer more sustainable world, can give strategic direction to the evolution of product portfolios and supply chain relationships to match. 

Online auctions for business are an extension of supply chain applications of the Internet, by which firms seek parts and supplies from a large pool of potential business partners. The real-time interaction in these auctions differs significantly from contract-based supply relationships, which may be stable but often inefficient in terms of costs. A more flexible and responsive supply chain relationship is required as the manufacturing process itself becomes more flexible to meet changing demands in real time. Especially for digital products, the business relationship between suppliers and producers may be defined by the requirement for immediate delivery of needed components. 

Thousands of activities arc performed and coordinated within a company, and every company is by nature in some way involved in supply chain relationships with other companies (Bowersox 1997b Stigler 1951 Coase 1937). When two companies build a relationship, certain of their intemtil activities will be linked and managed between the two companies (Hakansson and Snehota 1995). Since both companies have linked some internal activities with other members of their supply cheiin, a link between two companies is thus a link in what might be conceived as a supply cheiin network. For example, the internal activities of a manufacturer are linked with and can affect the interned activities of a distributor, which in turn are linked with and can have an effect on the interned activities of a retailer. Ultimately, the internal activities of the retailer are linked with and can affect the activities of the end customer. 

Retailers exist when they provide convenient product assortment, avaflabflity, price, and image within the geographic market served. The degree of customer preference (loyalty dtre to customer service and price/value performance) that a retailer enjoys in a spedfic area directly affects its abUity to negotiate supply chain relationships. The retailer s financial capahUity and size also determine its degree of influence over other supply chain members. 

Harding (2000) looked at SME network research and suggested an incremental networking model that could be used to improve supply chain relationships. Berlak and Weber (2004) describe howto configure, establish, and operate temporary supply chains via competence networks . They report on a German SME initiative, whereby a... 

Subramani, M. (2004). How do suppliers benefit from information technology use in supply chain relationships MIS Quarterly, 25(1), 45-73. 

Supply chain relationship management in which performance improvement benefits are shared. 

Supply-Chain Council (see) A nonprofit association of companies interested in supply chain management (SCM). The Council was incorporated in June 1997 as a not-for-profit trade association. The Council offers members an opportunity to improve the effectiveness of supply chain relationships from the customer s customer to the supplier s supplier. Its primary mission is to develop and maintain its Supply-Chain Operations Reference Model, or SCOR. 

Ren, J., Cohen, M., T. Ho., and C. Terwiesch. 2003. Sharing forecast information in a long-term supply chain relationship. Working Paper, University of Pennsylvania. 

Taylor, T. A. and E. L. Plambeck. 2003. Supply chain relationships and contracts the impact of repeated interaction on capacity investment and procurement. Working paper, Columbia University. 

Cox, A., Sanderson, J. St Watson, G. (2000), Power Regimes Mapping the DNA of Business and Supply Chain Relationships (Helpston, UK Earlsgate Press). 

Apparel product life-cycle management (PLM) and supply-chain relationships... 

Karakostas B, Katsoulakos T, Zorgios Y (2012) Towards an ICT platform for the European freight transput cmnmunity. Int J Appl Logist 3(2) 53-58 Klein R, Rai A (2009) Interfirm strategic information flows in logistics supply chain relationships. 

Christopher M., Jtittner U., 2000, Supply Chain Relationships Making the Transition to Closer Integration, International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications, 3(1), pp. 5-23. 

Moreover, supply chain relationships are frequently characterized by distrust. The fear of appropriation of the shared information by partners and/or competitors is present in most collaborating firms (Lee and Whang 2000). Consequently, in order to prevent opportunistic behavior, many firms decide to reduce the amount of shared information (Li and Lin 2006). On top of this, firms often do not want to lose power due to the revelation of internal knowledge. However, the concern is not only directed at the immediate exploitation and publication of secrets, but also at indirect transfer, that is, the unintended leakage of information, via the partner,... 

Loader, R., 1997. Assessing transaction costs to describe supply chain relationship in agri-food systems. Supply Chain Manegement 2, 23-35. 

Miles, M.B. and A.M. Hidjerman, 1994. Qimlitative Data Analysis an expanded sourcebook. Sage Publications. Norek, C.D. and T.L. Pohlen, 2001. Cost knowledge a foundation for improving supply chain relationships. 

Preiss, K.J. and P.A. Murray, 2005. Fashions of Learning improving supply-chain relationships. Supply Chain Management 10,18-25. 

This section refers to the type of collaboration needed within the organization. The task "forging supply chain relationships" refers to collaboration... 

Fynes, B., De Burca, S. and Marshall, D. 2004. Environmental uncertainty, supply chain relationship quality and performance. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 10, 179-190. 

Su, Q., Song, Y.-T., Li, Z. and Dang, J.-X. 2008b. The impact of supply chain relationship quality on cooperative strategy. Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, 14, 263-272. 

Managing supply chain relationships the objective of deeper, closer relationships in the supply chain and the factors for achieving them. 

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