The current economic climate forces businesses to collaborate more frequently and build efficient organizations and supply chains that reduce timeto-market and costs. This chapter argues that an electronic marketplace (eMarketplace) is a promising architectural model to develop collaborative supply chain management and integration platform. It supports coordination mechanisms and integration at...

Process systems must interact with other systems by exchanging materials and utilities such as steam and electricity in order to attain production goals; such exchange of materials among different processes that may belong to different companies makeup the supply chain for a particular product. The integration of different process systems for improvement of financial and environmental performan...

The integration and coordination of strategic suppliers becomes increasingly important as the manufacturer relies on external transactions to build up collaborative advantages. By conceptualizing virtual integration as an efficient and effective vertical coordination mechanism, the study discussed in this chapter developed a model to examine the role virtual integration plays in improving manuf...

In this paper, in order to derive the utilization priority of functional information systems utilized in the process of supply chain integration and suggest a set of advisable strategies for IS utilization, the relationship analysis among three major functions (Creation functions, Connection functions, Support functions) of information systems utilized for supply chain management and supply cha...

Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to analyse the prerequisites and effects of centralised supply chain planning at IKEA, and to explore how the planning process, planning system, and planning organization make up a centralised planning approach. Design/method/approach — The paper is based on a longitudinal case study of IKEA's implementation of global supply chain planning. The literature ...

This paper documents the effect of implementation of an ERP system within a firm and its impact on supply chain system .Supply chain design is becoming a core competency, and the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is expected to be an integral component of supply chain management (SCM). Although an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software provides different tools that can support supp...

Nowadays, individual firms no longer compete as independent entities, but rather as an integral part of supply chain links. Davis (1993) and Min and Zhou (2002) claim that in a time of shortening product life cycle, complex corporate joint ventures, and stiffening requirements for customer service, it is necessary to manage the supply chain in a manner of completeness. Lee et al. (2007) find th...

Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) is a reference model which can be used to design and implement inter-organizational processes of a supply chain. Its implementation assumes a high level of integration between the supply chain partners which reduces their flexibility. The problem of integration requirements may be addressed by enabling the supply chain partners to use their enterprise in...

As businesses strive to respond to customer demand at an acceptable cost in the face of market turbulence and volatility, interest in supply chain agility as the ability to address such market uncertainties has grown. As a research in progress paper, we will examine the ways in which supply chain agility is enabled through IT-enabled information processing capabilities and advance prior work in...

Successful supply chain management requires cross-functional integration and marketing must play a critical role. The challenge is to determine how to successfully accomplish this integration. We present a framework for supply chain management as well as questions for how it might be implemented and questions for future research. Case studies conducted at several companies and involving multipl...