Organizational Flexibility and Inventory Flow Integration
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The objective of this study is to identify how dimensions of organizational flexibility enable inventory flow integration, evidently an efficiency imperative, across the supply chain. The paper investigates the impact of product modularity, use of teams and IT infrastructure reconfigurability as dimensions of organizational flexibility, on inventory flow integration across the supply chain. Data was collected from 110 supply chain and logistics managers in manufacturing and retail organizations. The results of this study indicate that inventory flow integration, while apparently an efficiency imperative, increases the interdependence of various supply chain linkages and reduces already existing buffers, is enabled by flexibility capabilities in the organization.
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