Developing the Readiness Index of IT - enabled Supply Chain Collaboration ( draft 5 / 3 / 2004 )

The goal of this paper is to identify the readiness of supply chain collaboration and design a measurement system to quantify them. The framework is first designed for a general IOS for supply chain collaboration. To further verify it, we apply the generic model to a specific case of implementing RosettaNet standards in high-tech industries. By calculating our proposed readiness index, each firm can determine where they are in terms of the collaboration stage and thereby draw roadmaps for better supply chain performance. From the empirical observations, technology readiness is the key condition for non-adopters to improve their readiness for adoption. Adopters develop their expansion strategies by first putting their focus on improving their business processes and then on improving their interactions with industrial environments. These findings provide companies a guideline for measuring their readiness for supply chain collaboration as well as the implementation strategies they should target on.