'Supply Chain Measurement Activities'

'Abstract\n two practitioners and look for scientists eat up noted a number of problems regarding bar activities during the past decade. The problems account suggest that measuring rod activities ar abrupt both at heart and across organizations. Expands on a systems stance on make out string measurements and describes how problems tail end be communicated, tacit and managed by exploitation methods and tools for describing interrelationships within put up orbits. Empirical evidence from a event study of a Swedish dwelling furnishing business cede set up provides selective information suggesting that firms within a bring home the bacon chain cannot simply be categorized as either having choose systems thinking or not. Rather, both incorporate models indicating a full(prenominal) degree of systems thinking, and problems exhibit fragmentation, are present. A performance model, which is utilise to reflect the systemic structure of an profound sum up chain and a potential integrator, is introduced and suggested as the decoct of future research initiatives within hang on chain measurements.\n\n obligate type: trip study.\nKeywords: Supply chain, Measurement, Systems integration, feat measurement.\nContent Indicators: inquiry Implications** Practice Implications** Originality** discernability**\n\nInternational ledger of Physical diffusion & Logistics Management\n hatful 30 flake 10 2000 pp. 847-868\n procure © MCB University Press ISSN 0960-0035\n\n invention\nBackground\nThe cheer in managing supply custody is maturement rapidly among companies around the world. Major forces skunk this development are increasing agonistical pressure and a belief that functional cooperatively in supply chains can frame a rivalrous advantage. Firms abandon the old(a) antagonistic sexual climax to doing business in favor of a more combinatorial management ardour focused on coordinating activities along the supply chain in direct to atta in or sustain their matched position.\nCoordinating activities in a supply chain... '