A Decision Support Framework to Assess Grocery Retail Supply Chain Collaboration: A System Dynamics Modelling Approach

Investigating Supply Chain Cooperation in Finnish Grocery Retail

“…Information sharing also plays a key role in the coordination of supply chain activities, and especially in reducing the bullwhip effect or demand amplification (Elkady et al, 2014). The extent of cooperation is also important as SCC requires resources and thus firms have to choose how and on what level they should cooperate.…”

“…The objective of this paper and its related empirical study were to investigate how cooperative supply chain capabilities can cope with uncertain demand, i.e. extend previous research on cooperative supply chains to a field which is not extensively researched yet (Elkady et al, 2014). One of the growing aspects of contemporary SCM research is how technological advances enable supply chain cooperation (Soosay, Hyland, 2015) as well as how human resources, particularly at store level, interact with various systems and replenishment methods (Trautrims et al, 2012).…”

“…The grocery retail sector and its associated supply chains differ from the manufacturing and non-grocery sectors due to the perishable nature of most products and greater demand fluctuations caused by more frequent purchases and promotional campaigns (Taylor, Fearne, 2009). Some research has investigated the state of SCC and different SCC initiatives in the retail grocery sector (see for example Kaipia et al, 2013;Ehrenthal et al, 2014;Elkady et al, 2014;Alftan et al, 2015), however research on the links between information technology (IT) sharing, SCC, and SC performance remains sparse (Elkady et al, 2014). In addition, demand uncertainty and seasonality are areas often poorly considered by smaller retail chains in particular (Ehrenthal et al, 2014).…”

“…Advances in IT and the Internet as an IT platform have made technology easily available and less costly for firms, with the result that the status of IT as a competitive advantage enabler has been reduced, turning IT instead into a competitive necessity or hygiene factor (Fawcett et al, 2011). However, previous failures to obtain expected benefits from IT implementation, especially in the cooperative efforts of small supply chains, have demonstrated flaws in thinking that SCC always increases supply chain (Elkady et al, 2014).…”

A Simulation Based Approach to Investigate the Procurement Process and Its Effect on the Performance of Supply Chains

“…A simulation was used on the basis of a trial group consisting of 12 retailers in the US. It was shown that collaboration can cut costs, risks and inventory for both the retailer and their suppliers [6]. Langroodi and Amiri (2016) investigate the choice of the most appropriate region for order placements in a five stage multi-product supply chain, consisting of a customer, an incorporate retailer, manufacturer, material distributor and supplier, in four different regions using a System Dynamics model.…”