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Summary This paper will outline some basic issues on action research. It aims to provide an overview of the development of action research methodology. In this context, scientific theoretical discussions play an important role. Action research is less used in supply chain management research when compared to other methodologies. Against this background, it will also be discussed what approaches are...
Summary Increasingly organizations have to identify and implement improvement initiatives in an inter-organizational context. Implementing collaborative improvement is fraught with difficulties that encompass a wide array of intra- and inter-organizational change issues and working practices. In order to overcome these difficulties, explicit attention should be paid to the accumulation and development...
Summary Companies are perceived as important actors in the drive for sustainability. Linked to this and in response to increasing demands from various stakeholder groups, companies start to look at their supply chain to enhance their overall sustainability profile. Reasons for these two major issues can be identified: (1) focal companies are held responsible for environmental and social problems caused...
Summary This paper illustrates the basic approach, structure and development path of a diagnostic instrument that integrates existing approaches of systemizing, structuring and thus elaboration of the core of supply chain management (SCM). The main purpose of this computer-aided tool is the quick indication of weak spots within supply chain enterprises. But this self diagnostic is not the focus of...
Summary Most practical and theoretical approaches to port performance measurement are reducible to three broad categories: physical indicators, factor productivity indicators, and economic and financial indicators. However, an integrative supply chain approach is seldom adopted, although a change process towards supply chain integration is taking place in practice and new appropriate performance measurements...
Summary Supply chain management implies that companies cooperate in delivering products and services to customers. As a consequence, related empirical research should collect data from more than one stage of the supply chain. This has rarely been the case so far, as often only one company is approached, implicitly carrying the problem that statements on the supply chain cannot be validated by a view...
Summary This paper describes a case study research proposal designed to explore how and why firms chose to integrate process activities with supply chain partners. Previous quantitative studies suggest that integrating demand management, collaborative forecasting, and demand planning activities can lead to competitive advantage and improved supply chain performance. This qualitative research fills...
Summary This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the use of case-based methodologies when researching supply chains. We first draw on Stuart et al. (2002) as well as other researchers in the operations management (OM) field and pioneering authors (Eisenhardt, 1989; Yin, 1993; Miles & Huberman, 1994) to examine the process of conducting case based research. We proceed from its...
Summary This study focuses on possible contributions of the multilevel approach to research in supply chain management. Supply chains consist of multiple organizations comprising different departments with people who are interacting inside and across organizations. Factors at different levels may thus influence chain performance in different ways. What is more, the multilevel approach recognizes that...
Summary The strategic importance of supply chain management in creating value is attracting the attention of both practitioners and academics. The potential of strategic cost management to support related value creation has been highlighted. However, very little research using case studies has been done to demonstrate how cost management is implemented along supply chains. The few case studies investigating...
Summary The objective of this paper is to provide Supply Chain Management (SCM) researchers with an example of how to conduct empirical research using two different methodologies (case studies and surveys). The paper examines the methodology used to investigate a particular SCM topic: the SCM-performance relationship. The research design will be outlined and used to carry out the investigation as...
Summary Supply chain relationships are impacted by the use of the Internet and the transformation through its technologies (Bak, 2004). Although an area of growing interest, little research has focused on the impact of the Internet and on understanding how different approaches for creating supply chains are suitable for different supply chain requirements (Pant et al., 2003). Similar to MacPherson...
Summary Various papers have been published that define requirements for theory development in operations management or try to connect the knowledge generated along the different research lines. Here, we define the scope of supply chain management research and its relationship with operations management research. We show how quantitative model-driven research - especially under consideration of empirical...
Summary Simulation offers a middle ground between pure formal modeling, empirical observation and experiments for strategic issues in supply chain research. Although simulation models are formally specified, they are not limited to analytically solvable equation systems. Additionally, simulation approaches provide the possibility to include estimations of not easily measurable “soft” factors. The...
Summary This paper stems from a cross-fertilization research project aimed at exploring to which extent modeling methodologies and tools that are used in engineering fields could be suitable to solve management problems. A powerful object-oriented modeling language used in those contexts, Modelica, is carefully presented, and its most innovative features are discussed. Then, a very demanding management...
Summary In this paper Supply Chain Management will be analyzed in the light of Game Theory. The aim of the paper is to show the applicability of Cooperative Game Theory as methodology for analyzing supply chains. A main characteristic of a supply chain is cooperation. The success and sustainability of cooperation depends on the stability as constituting element. Cooperation can be analyzed with Cooperative...
Summary This paper proposes mathematical modeling as an alternative research methodology for analyzing complex systems. The process of deriving a mathematical model is explored through the complexities of product architecture modularity in supply chains. Two model settings are analyzed: (1) supply chain and (2) focal firm. At the supply chain level, ‘modularization characteristic curve’ is applied...
Summary When managing inventory systems with multiple locations, the inherent uncertainty of demand in many cases results in some locations having a shortage of inventory while others have a surplus inventory. One popular action against the costs of not having supply meet demand is the use of transshipments between the locations. We consider a multi-location inventory system with transshipments. Transshipments...
Summary In this paper we present the methodology of research that has been the base of our work. The main objective is to study contractual relations; this is the reason why we talk of a contract-oriented research methodology. Through bibliographical research, assistance to workshops and industrial contacts, we identified the basic elements that are the basic issues for understanding and describing...
Summary As organizations move from creating plans for individual production lines to entire supply chains it is increasingly important to recognize that decisions concerning utilization of production resources impact the lead times that will be experienced. In this paper we give some insights into why this is the case by looking at the queuing that results in delays. In this respect, special mention...
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