Organization for logistics: the contingency approach

Pfohl, Hans‐Christian; Zöllner, Werner

doi:10.1108/09600039710175895

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“…Other research has identified differences among firms with respect to span of control on the basis of the following: organizational growth (Pfohl and Zöllner 1987;Hanks and Chandler 1994), organizational structure (Dröge and Germain 1989), and characteristics of the top functional executive (Salancik and Pfeffer 1977). This research, therefore, suggests that changes to span of control occur as firms grow, as organizational structures change, and as new functional executives (e.g., chief purchasing officer) are appointed.…”

Section: Previous Research Functional Span Of Controlmentioning

confidence: 82%

Gaining and Losing Pieces of the Supply Chain

Johnson

Leenders

2003

J Supply Chain Manag

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SUMMARY This research focused on changes in supply chain responsibilities. The primary research question was: What are the reasons (drivers) for major changes in supply chain responsibilities? Over 200 such changes, comprising 158 additions and 44 deletions, were documented in the research. The findings are based on 10 case studies in large multi‐business unit companies, seven head quartered in the United States and three in Europe, representing a variety of industries. Findings indicated three drivers of change for supply chain responsibilities. The chief purchasing officer and his or her staff members had a great deal of influence, particularly in additions to category 1 (acquisition of specific organizational needs) and category 2 (activities within the total supply chain).

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Section: Previous Research Functional Span Of Controlmentioning

confidence: 82%

Gaining and Losing Pieces of the Supply Chain

Johnson

Leenders

2003

J Supply Chain Manag

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“…Aronsson and Huge-Brodin [8], Kalenoja, et al [25], McKinnon [39], Pfohl and Zöllner [23] Establishing responsibilities for the environment and transported products, just-in-time deliveries, returns…”

Section: Logistics Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

Wehner

2018

Sustainability

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Logistics operations are energy-consuming and impact the environment negatively. Improving energy efficiency in logistics is crucial for environmental sustainability and can be achieved by increasing the utilisation of capacity. This paper takes an interactive approach to capacity utilisation, to contribute to sustainable freight transport and logistics, by identifying its causes and mitigations. From literature, a conceptual framework was developed to highlight different system levels in the logistics system, in which the energy efficiency improvement potential can be found and that are summarised in the categories activities, actors, and areas. Through semi-structured interviews with representatives of nine companies, empirical data was collected to validate the framework of the causes of the unutilised capacity and proposed mitigations. The results suggest that activities, such as inflexibilities and limited information sharing as well as actors' over-delivery of logistics services, incorrect price setting, and sales campaigns can cause unutilised capacity, and that problem areas include i.a. poor integration of reversed logistics and the last mile. The paper contributes by categorising causes of unutilised capacity and linking them to mitigations in a framework, providing a critical view towards fill rates, highlighting the need for a standardised approach to measure environmental impact that enables comparison between companies and underlining that costs are not an appropriate indicator for measuring environmental impact.

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“…Managers have always sought the best way to deal with the broad scope of supply chain management decisions and have focused on how different supply chain objectives should be prioritized. Pfohl and Zollner (1997) indicate that the answer to these questions requires an extensive analysis of important logistical contingency factors and their relationships to supply chain management choices. Under a contingency perspective, the right thing to do depends on contextual factors.…”

Section: Contingency Approach To Supply Chain Managementmentioning

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The relationship between the logistics complexity of manufacturing companies and their supply chain management

Corrêa

2013

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This study aims to investigate whether, and the means by which, supply chain managers of large manufacturing companies adopt a context-dependent approach (also called contingency approach) in their supply chain decisions; it empirically explores the correlation between logistics complexity-related contextual conditions and supply chain management (SCM) objectives and decision areas. The study involves a comprehensive literature review, followed by an analysis of survey data (based on a sample of 108 large manufacturing companies in Brazil), using cluster analysis, factor analysis and binary logistic regression. In this study, we not only investigate the major effects of supply chain objectives and decision areas as predictors of the logistics complexity of manufacturing but also investigate their second order interactions. Statistically significant relationships were found between logistics complexity-related contextual conditions and objectives and decision areas involving the supply chain. The managers of large companies who were surveyed considered different objectives and decision areas to be critical to the achievement of supply chain excellence when their companies had different levels of logistics complexity.

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Organization for logistics: the contingency approach

Cited by 29 publications

References 23 publications

Gaining and Losing Pieces of the Supply Chain

Gaining and Losing Pieces of the Supply Chain

Energy Efficiency in Logistics: An Interactive Approach to Capacity Utilisation

The relationship between the logistics complexity of manufacturing companies and their supply chain management

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