Section one consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 entitled " Enterprise Applications for Supply Chain Management " is written by Susan A. Sherer. Coordination of information to effectively operate and manage a supply chain can be a source of competitive advantage today. In order to gather, utilize, and effectively share information, companies continue to invest in information technology, acquiri...

Since the 1980s the concepts of portfolio management have been adopted within the context of understanding business markets. Academics on both sides of the Atlantic have conceptualized and empirically tested a variety of customer and supplier portfolio models. More recently the concept of an indirect portfolio of relationships and its management has also been introduced. This paper reviews the ...

In this paper, we study the practice of forecast sharing and supply chain coordination with a game-theoretical model. We find that in a one-shot version of the game, forecasts are not shared truthfully by the customer. The supplier will rationally discount the forecast information in her capacity allocation. This results in Pareto sub-optimality for both supply chain parties. However, we show t...

This study investigates the role personal connections play in a crucial element of supply chain—supplier selection. We find that likelihood potential supplier (hereafter, vendor) is selected to be an actual supplier) increases when between executives vendor and customer exist. The magnitude effect varies predictably across management ranks positions stronger information asymmetries are high. Co...

This paper is a commentary to the paper by Hammervoll published in this issue, which discusses the management of value creation in exchange relationships. His paper conceptualizes three particular types of interaction: unilateral supplier learning, unilateral supplier development and bilateral learning, and reports on a Norwegian survey to identify links between relationship governance, value c...

the increasing emphasis on supply chain management (scm) has led researchers to rethink models, constructs, and frameworks for quality management (qm) that have been developed for the field of operations management. in this paper, within the framework of a structural model we investigate how these two supply chain management-related quality practices (customer focus and supplier quality managem...