Received: 1 April 2009 Revised: 7 November 2009 2nd Revision: 5 December 2009 Accepted: 11 December 2009 Abstract To understand the role of supply chain visibility in creating strategic value, this study uses the dynamic capabilities view to uncover the nature of supply chain visibility. The study identifies four important constructs of supply chain visibility that are helpful in driving supply...

Fourth party logistics (4PL) company plays the role of integrator, which provides both information technology and supply chain integration capabilities. It not only creates different values of each segment in the supply chain, but also elevates the effects in supply chain management for business. Therefore, how to select an appropriate fourth party logistics company is an important decision for...

Organizations both in Australia and around the world are increasingly recognizing that competitive success depends on how well the supply chain works in delivering value to customers. Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) is a tool deriving from data warehouse technology which enables supply chain partners to collaborate by providing visibility of information and online analytical capabilities across...

the performance of a supply chain can be evaluated in either a cross-sectional or a time series manner, and data envelopment analysis is a useful method for both types of evaluation. in this paper we develop an index and indicator of productivity change that can be used with radial and non-radial models for supply chain malmquist index. the supply chain malmquist productivity index (scmpi) can ...

supply chain for survival in turbulent and volatile markets need instrument that by its help face with environment challenge. this instrument is agility. thus, in order of modeling agility of supply chain, founded 11 factors and interred in questionnaire and give it to experts of zobahan co. supply chain. analyzed result of 180 received questionnaire and accepted 11 factors that founded before....

Supply chain management (SCM) and Business-to-Business (B2B) E-commerce has attracted significant attention in recent years as the availability of a ubiquitous network linking most businesses has created new opportunities for electronic integration between firms. Companies need to, however, be cognizant of the inter-organizational relationships and the requirements of business processes in thei...

There is a huge amount of hype associated with the term “Big Data” (Walker, 2014; Chen, Chiang & Storey, 2012; Chen, Mao & Liu, 2014). Its applications to industry appear limitless (Chen, Alspaugh & Katz, 2012). However, research applying big data to the supply chain management domain fails to demonstrate useful results (Richey et al., 2016). We therefore propose the following research objectiv...

An important issue for suppliers, producers, and retailers who want to compete in a competitive environment is continuous performance improvement in a dynamic supply chain. Literature review on supply chain puts more emphasis on quantitative factors than other factors. In this research, we focus on quantitative factors which affect competitive advantages creation and investigation. Our goal is ...

The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship between supply chain enablers and firm performance within the Thai garment industry, which is mediated by competitive advantage. The findings reveal that the proposed model has a significant mediating effect of competitive advantage. In terms of the causal path model, IT capabilities and supply chain integration are the key enablers...