Adapt or die: a competitive digital supply chain quality management strategy

Adapt or die?

The worldwide economic recession and the concomitant limited stock of finances have had an influence on the available money of every household and have also inhibited the improvement of socio-economic conditions and medicine. The Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP) has the objective of improving the living conditions of the people with regard to housing, education, training and healt...

Supply Chain Quality Management

In today's economy, it is no longer business versus business, but rather supply chain versus supply chain. To compete, supply chain members must learn to seamlessly integrate, grow, and develop business functions. Traditional quality management practices have been and will continue to be used to address many of these supply chain integration issues. With this in mind, current managerial thinkin...

Linking corporate strategy and supply chain management

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research the nature of supply chain strategy (SCS). It represents one stage of an on-going research initiative aimed at providing a framework for systematic understanding of the linkages between corporate strategy (CS) making and supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach – The paper explored the theory and literature related to strategi...

Supply Chain Management: das 'Netzwerk' bestimmt die Logistikprozesse

Using competitive strategy patterns to determine ideal supply chain management information systems capabilities

Supply chain management information systems (SCM IS) have become vital tools for synchronising information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain. However, recent advances in inter-enterprise systems and e-business technologies have led to a confusing variety of SCM IS alternatives, each with varying capabilities. This paper demonstrates how a business unit’s competitive strategy p...