Pooling Supply Chain: Literature Review of Collaborative Strategies

To support companies in collaborative supply chain, new strategies have been set up and developed in the past years. In this context, the first aspect of this paper is to provide an overview of these different collaborative strategies either in vertical or horizontal level. We further develop literature-based constructs for both types of collaboration. After this large-scale survey this paper proposes a conceptual framework for pooling supply chain as an horizontal collaborative logistic strategy. Moreover, our objective is to highlight the link between horizontal collaborative logistic and sustainable development, to show that the strategy of pooling supply chain can achieve the goals of sustainable development, namely, the environmental, economic and societal objectives.