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Towards a sustainable fashion retail supply chain in Europe: Organisation and performance

“…It is affected by wider issues, deriving from both the internal organisation of each actor of the supply chain (intra organisational issues, such as the quality of product, human resources management), and from the quality of the relationship among the actors of the SC (inter-organisational issues, such as logistics and transport organisations). Moreover, there are new demands from end customers and other stakeholders that can affect the performance and therefore should be taken into account in its assessment (Mentzer et al, 2001;Al-Mudimigh et al, 2004).…”

Survey on the relation between road freight transport, SCM and sustainable development

“…Several articles have separately discussed the concept of SCM [10]- [19], sustainable development [20]- [26] or the road freight transport [1], [4], [27]- [37].…”

The role of business-to-business electronic services in buyer-supplier collaboration

“…For example, ERP systems such as SAP, via Extranets connect not only different functions within a firm but also among the firms supply chain partners (i.e. suppliers, distributors, and third party logistics (3PL) providers), enabling the partners to share information such as order status, product schedules, and sales records, to integrate major supply chain processes and to plan production, logistics and marketing promotions (Overby and Min, 2001). Naylor et al (Naylor et al, 1999) discuss the role of Information Technologies in integrating the lean and agile manufacturing paradigms in the total supply chain.…”

“…Supply chain management activities are defined by (Mentzer et al, 2001 Supply chain management is a cross-function approach to manage the movement of raw materials into an organization, certain aspects of the internal processing of materials into finished goods, and then the movement of finished goods out of the organization toward the end-consumer. As organizations strive to focus on core competencies and becoming more flexible, they have reduced their ownership of raw materials sources and distribution channels.…”

“…Mentzer, DeWitt et al define supply chain as "a set of three or more entities (organizations or individuals) directly involved in the upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances, and/or information from a source to a customer" (Mentzer et al, 2001). For Nagurney (2006) a "supply chain is the system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer".…”