A Taxonomy for Supply Chain Management Literature

Abstract

This paper presents a scheme for classifying the Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. SCM is broadly defined to include all classical business functions and theoretic management disciplines which impacted this emerging field. Consequently, its literature is very disjoint and disparate. It transcends several academic disciplines and professions. This paper presents a way to define the field in its entirety and delineate all of its facets in a manner that is parsimonious yet discriminating. Sample articles are classified to illustrate the descriptive power and the parsimony of this taxonomy.

The Use of Social Media in the Supply Chain: Survey and Extensions

“…Finally, this same approach could be used to investigate related concerns, such as supply‐chain taxonomies (e.g. Capar et al , ), and how they might evolve over time.…”

A taxonomy of supply chain innovations

“…A taxonomy has been offered for supply chains by Chandra and Tumanyan (2005), the generalization of planning problems in supply chain management. Capar et al (2004) introduce a supply chain management taxonomy structure that includes definitions. We adopt and extend the structure in their taxonomy in our supply chain attributes dimension.…”

“…Secondly, it creates a taxonomy of supply chain attributes that show how supply chains differ from each other. The study analyzes case studies reported in literature and in the Supply Chain Innovation Award (SCIA), and taxonomy papers (Capar et al, 2004) to construct an extensive classification of attributes of supply chains. Then, as the final dimension, the study classifies the innovations based on their attributes.…”

Research on Pricing-Inventory Models for New Products under Uncertainty

“…In our example, triangular variables have been adopted to describe the uncertain parameters of model (3) because it simplifies the operations on fuzzy sets. It is defined by three bounds [i,m, U], where / is a lower bound, m is a mean value and u is an upper bound.…”

“…Some literature reviewed fuzzy models in supply chain (SC) [3,4]. For instance, about fuzzy pricing, Chen and Wang [5] forecasted product price and order quantity with fuzzy variables, and put forward many methods of forecast; Bernhard et al [6] research monopoly's pricing for products without constraints under fuzzy information.…”