Requirements for forming an ‘e-supply chain’

Structured AbstractPurpose: The aim of this study is three-pronged. Firstly, to review the existing critical success factors (CSF) literature in the context of supply chain management (SCM). Secondly, to analyse the occurrence frequency of every possible CSF in SCM literature. Thirdly, to identify the 'vital few' and the 'useful many' CSF that are harmonized across the SCM field.Design/methodology/approach: A time-specific and term-sensitive literature review technique is undertaken to generate a list of possible CSF in SCM. The review yielded 55 papers, but only 26 empirical CSF papers were selected for analysis as the reliability and validity of the factors had been rigorously tested. Consequently, a Pareto analysis approach was applied to trace the CSF frequency of occurrence in SCM literature. By performing a Pareto analysis, this present study is able to id entify and categorize the 'vital few' and 'useful many' CSF that are consistent throughout various fields of SCM. The review and results are tabulated and a Pareto diagram has been constructed to provide a summary of findings.Findings: Out of the 26 selected empirical papers, 25 potent CSF in SCM literature have been extracted. From the Pareto analysis, 9 CSF represent 80.68 percentage of occurrence which is regarded as the 'vital few' CSF in SCM. The remaining 16 CSF represent 19.32 percentage of occurrence and is regarded as the 'useful many' CSF in SCM. The 9 'vital CSF' are immensely important, because in order to achieve supply chain and operation success, one must recognize the few vital factors that are responsible for the larger impact onto the industry compared to the other 16 'useful many' CSF. Practical implications:The study offers some sense of assistance to SCM managers in highlighting the vital few CSF that matter most, regardless of their nature of SCM fields. Thus, saving their energy, time, and resources in determining the critical pieces of information. For academicians, this study provides a platform for future SCM CSF research and the results could aid researchers in developing the research instrument.Originality/value: This study is the first attempt to apply Pareto analysis for SCM CSF studies and critically analyzing a wide range of SCM CSF literature. The result could allow supply chain managers to focus on the internal factors, as it could implicate the external factors, and is vital for sustainable supply chain operation, plus, it could stimulate potential researcher opportunities in linking SCM CSF and firm performance.

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Section: E-commerce In Supply Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical success factors of supply chain management: a literature survey and Pareto analysis

Talib

Hamid

Thoo

2015

EuroMed Journal of Business

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“…In the literature, a number of distinctive terms were used to describe the new communicated global business systems to fulfill customer orders, such as e-supply chain (Akyuz and Rehan, 2009), Ambient Intelligence (Kloch et al, 2010), Internet of Things or IoT (Ma, 2011), industrial Internet (Evans and Annunziata, 2012), physical Internet (Montreuil, 2011), smart factory (Hessman, 2013), smart environment (Weiser et al, 1999), and smarter supply chain (Butner, 2010). While e-commerce promotes transactions performed on the traditional Internet, the concept of 'e-supply chain" makes one further step to integrate processes across supply chain stages (Akyuz and Rehan, 2009).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Smart supply chain management: a review and implications for future research

Yue

Jin

et al. 2016

The International Journal of Logistics Management

326

269

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Structured Abstract:Purpose: As traditional supply chains are increasingly becoming intelligent with more objects embedded with sensors and better communication, intelligent decision-making and automation capabilities, the new smart supply chain presents unprecedented opportunities for achieving cost reduction and enhancing efficiency improvement. The purpose of the paper is to study and explore the currents status and remaining issues of smart supply chain management (SSCM) .Design/methodology/approach: A literature review is conducted to synthesize the earlier work in this area, and to conceptualize and discuss the smart supply chain characteristics. Further, we formulate and investigate the five key research topics including information management, IT, process automation, advanced analytics, and supply chain integration.Findings: Studies in those aforementioned subject fields are reviewed, categorized, and analysed based on the review questions defined in the study. It is notable that while the topics of converging atoms with digits are increasingly attracting attention from researchers and practitioners alike, there are many more interesting research questions needing to be addressed.Originality/value: The paper provides original and relevant guidance for SCM researchers and practitioners on developing smart supply chains.

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“…This idea is fully supported by numerous literature items with regards to ERP, IT-supply chain interaction and enterprise application integration. It is also fully in line with the extended enterprise view, using internal integrity and ERP implementations as the backbone and proceeding with add-ons like CRM and SRM (Akyuz and Rehan, 2009;Xu, 2011). …”

Section: Further Efforts To Develop New Collaborative Quality Modelsmentioning

confidence: 71%

Collaborative Quality Management

Akyüz¹

2011

Supply Chain Management - Pathways for Research and Practice

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Requirements for forming an ‘e-supply chain’

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Critical success factors of supply chain management: a literature survey and Pareto analysis

Critical success factors of supply chain management: a literature survey and Pareto analysis

Smart supply chain management: a review and implications for future research

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