A Review on the Integration of Supply Chain Management and Industrial Cluster

Abstract

Although Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Industrial Cluster (IC) are two different fields of study, it has been identified that there is a natural and internal relationship between these two theories. Most of research works depict that, integration of the two concepts is in its infancy. The aim of this research is to review the integration between supply chain management and industrial cluster, at the same time to identify the gap and propose solution. To achieve the research aim, two pairs of keywords namely "supply chain" and "industrial cluster" were used, to track literatures from the online databases. The search initially identified over 46 articles. After further screening, they were reduced to 17. Finally, contents of these articles were analyzed based on their general focus area. From the content analysis, considerable evidences are found in the literature review on the integration of supply chain management with industrial cluster. The entire emphasis of the previous researches was on cluster supply chain (CSC) management, which highly promotes efficient operations of industrial clusters. Most of the CSC articles focused on the importance of cluster supply chain. However, there are few researches in the design, implementation and improvement of cluster supply chain. On the other hand, the role of industrial clusters in a global supply chain management and benchmarking of best practices have not yet been given the attention they deserve in previous studies. This is one of the first studies which critically examine researches that deal about supply chain management and industrial cluster integration theories.

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“…There are many agreements on definitions of supply chain management. Kaufman 2002 Hence, in last decades SCM has emerged as an integrated approach, which includes waste reduction, synchronized operation, delivery performance, quality management, flexibility, customer satisfaction, time cost, warehousing and long-term supplier relation (Tolossa et al, 2013) to achieve competitive advantage (Wouters et al, 2009), enhance effectiveness (Janvier-James, 2012). Though supply chain, collaboration can be operationalized in many forms but according to Holweg et al (2005), the most significant and important person is the one to speed up the demand and supply by bringing overall efficiency in the whole supply chain.…”

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“…But this is insignificant success compared to the other performance indicators,as a result the combined effect of each performance indicator results lower performing capacity sector were found. As assault the performance of the sector in GDP contribution, competitiveness, and sectorial performance is low [27][28][29][30][31][32].…”

“…Netsanet Jote Tolossa, 2013 [31] Using literature analysis, the infancy of integration between industrial cluster and supply chain management theories were investigated. Also shows the needs for further investigations on the role of industrial clusters in a global supply chain management and benchmarking of best practices manufacturing firms.…”