The aims of this paper are to empirically test the relationship between knowledge sharing practices within and between trading partners as a framework for integration, and to test for the effect of these practices on firm performance. Data was collected from 418 organizations in the manufacturing industry in Australia. Structural equation modelling approach to data analysis was used. It was fou...

Integrating these services should improve the overall care an individual receives at a facility. As health care facilities increasingly offer integrated health care packages, all the products required for provision of these services need to be available. Historically, this has contributed to an understanding of integration as putting all products together on one truck. However, integration is n...

The Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) model has been widely adopted in many companies. Anecdotal evidence and trade journals have reported significant improvements after firms have adopted the SCOR model. Although practitioners have been enthusiastic about implementing and using the SCOR model in their operations, the SCOR model has not been empirically validated. The purpose of this stu...

While inter-firm collaboration and integration remain critical for supply chain performance and information technology (IT) has been playing an increasingly important role in inter-firm cooperation, whether intra-firm IT skills can impact the inter-firm integration of IT has not been explored in the IS area. IT human capital involving soft skills and hard skills is a relatively unexplored topic...

This paper focuses on demand chain management, which accomplishes the synchronization of demand with supply through collaboration of buyer and supplier across the chain. And the purpose of it is to find the relationship between four integration strategies produced by combining supply integration and demand integration and its impacts on two performances, operating efficiency and customer satisf...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a subject that has found so much attention among different commercial and industrial organizations due to competing environment of products. Therefore, integration of constituent element of this chain is a great deal. This paper proposes a multi objective production-allocation and distribution planning problem (PADPP) in a multi echelon supply chain network. We ...

The level of a service and its cost have a trade-off relation in the supply chain, but most companies aim to achieve both quality service and low cost at the same time by means of effective supply chain management. In an effort to achieve this goal, many researches have been made to minimize the uncertainties related to the supply chain through its effective design and operation. It is notewort...

This paper subsidises to the discussion of interorganisational learning. This study has a main aim which is to examine the inter-organisational learning from a supply chain perspective. The integration and importance of supply chain with inter-organisational learning till date is discussed. The steps that are involved in the consideration of inter-organisational learning are looked throughout w...

© There is a great deal of confusion regarding exactly what supply chain management involves [1]. In fact, most people using the name supply chain management treat it as a synonym for logistics or as logistics that includes customers and suppliers. Others view supply chain management as the new name for purchasing or operations, or the combination of purchasing, operations and logistics. Howeve...