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Unlocking the Supply Chain to Build Competitive Advantage

Walker, Brian; Bovet, David; Martha, Joseph - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 11 (2000) 2, pp. 1-8

Customer demands on manufacturers and retailers are increasing relentlessly. Spurred by the Internet's “click it and get it” value proposition, a growing number of consumers and business buyers want customized products, convenient ordering, and rapid fulfillment. Delivering against these...

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Supply Chain Management as a Competitive Advantage in the Spanish Grocery Sector

Giménez, Cristina; Ventura, Eva - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 14 (2003) 1, pp. 77-88

Adversarial relationships have been traditional in business, but Supply Chain Management (SCM) entails a new perspective. SCM requires a movement away from arms‐length relationships toward partnership style relations. In this paper, we studied the Spanish grocery sector to analyze the...

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Transportation Effectiveness and Manufacturing Firm Performance

Tracey, Michael - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 15 (2004) 2, pp. 31-50

Transportation is considered an important element of logistics and supply chain success. Yet it is often ignored as a …

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Technology usage in the supply chain: the case of small 3PLs

Evangelista, Pietro; Sweeney, Edward - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 17 (2006) 1, pp. 55-74

of third party logistics (3PLs) providers as they play a key integrative role linking the different supply chain elements …PLs such as the Italian logistics industry. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of ICT adoption in small … logistics service providers. The focus of the study is the Italian 3PL market. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology …

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Changing perspective of capabilities in the dynamic supply chain era

Clifford Defee, C.; Fugate, Brian S. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 21 (2010) 2, pp. 180-206

advantage. Design/methodology/approach – Logistics and supply chain literature is reviewed to provide a foundation for …

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Elaborating a dynamic systems theory to understand collaborative inventory successes and failures

Fawcett, Stanley E.; Waller, Matthew A.; Fawcett, Amydee M. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 21 (2010) 3, pp. 510-537

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a holistic paradigmatic lens through which the supply chain collaboration phenomena – including collaborative inventory management – can be understood and explained. Design/methodology/approach – As theory‐building research, the paper...

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Retail service‐based operant resources and market performance

Skinner Beitelspacher, Lauren; Tokman, Mert; Adams, Frank G. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 23 (2012) 3, pp. 408-434

Purpose – The service‐dominant logic (SDL) concept is reshaping the view of business‐to‐business research and practice. Thus, understanding the role of knowledge‐based operant resources, a key component of the SDL paradigm, in the ability of supply chains to shape competitive advantage...

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Achieving Competitiveness Through Logistics

Persson, Göran - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 2 (1991) 1, pp. 1-11

Logistics management has always been concerned with lead‐times. In particular, the order‐to‐delivery cycle has been … the way in which ‘time’ is managed throughout the logistics system ‐ from procurement of materials through to the receipt … reduced through a shortening of total logistics lead‐time, but responsiveness and flexibility to market place requirements is …

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Customer and Non‐Customer Perceptions of Third Party Services: Are They Similar?

Sarel, Dan; Zinn, Walter - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 3 (1992) 1, pp. 12-22

Competitive performance analysis typically relies on customer service surveys. This research highlights the importance of systematically including non‐customer input to customer service surveys. Findings indicate that perceptions of customers and non‐customers both on service importance and...

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Disintegration and Re‐Integration: Logistics of the Twenty‐First Century

La Londe, Bernard J.; Powers, Richard F. - In: The International Journal of Logistics Management 4 (1993) 2, pp. 1-12

‐integration of the channel will present significant, new challenges and opportunities to the corporate logistics function. The … logistics function of the firm will provide the ideal “boundary spanning” role to re‐integrate and position the firm for global …

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