The study sets out to explore the use of an iterative approach for designing distribution chain in an agile virtual environment; in an agile virtual environment, quick adaptation to changing market situation and automation of supply chain management processes are essential.
The purpose of this paper is to propose a wage incentive plan for branch managers of multi-branch firms. The incentive payment is calculated according to each branch’s performance and its relative rank, taking into consideration commonvariables, regional variables andmanagerial skill variables.
The purpose of this paper is to examine how organizational structural factors (namely decentralization, formalization, and specialization) influence a firm's logistics service innovation capability and firm performance.
Posits that, in recent years, more firms have chosen to use outside service vendors to provide at least a portion of their logistical support requirements. Presents projected usage trends for selected services as identified by logistics executives. Discovered differences in anticipated usage levels of external logistical services when firms of different organizational structure were examined.
Organizational structure significantly influences firm performance. A recent survey of logistics professionals revealed that centralized structures accommodated logistics system integration better than decentralized structures. Also, centralized firms spent a lower percentage of net sales on logistics costs and information system support costs than decentralized firms. On the other hand, no sig…
Agility is regarded as one of the core capabilities and the developing trend of supply chains and their enterprises. Along with the development of economical globalization, supply chain management and containerization as well as container ports as a part of supply chain take more roles like logistics or distribution centers. Under this background, the container terminal should have superior res…
Agility is regarded as one of the core capabilities and the developing trend of supply chains and their enterprises. Along with the development of economical globalization, supply chain management and containerization as well as container ports as a part of supply chain take more roles like logistics or distribution centers. Under this background, the container terminal should have superior res…
Within the supply chain the need for much closer, long‐term relationships is increasing due to supplier rationalisation and globalisation and more information about these interactions is required. The research specifically tested the well‐accepted Williamson's economic organisations failure framework as a theoretical model through which long‐term collaborative relationships can be viewed.
Presents a model that hypothesizes relationships between logistical complexity and both the importance of JIT manufacturing and the most appropriate organization structure for implementing JIT manufacturing. Logistical complexity can be defined in terms of the number of manufacturing steps or the number of different part numbers handled in a factory. Hypothesizes that the greater a factory′…
Manufacturers have begun to develop and implement strategies that focus on strengthening the operations/marketing interface with customers. Claycomb et al. originally identified and described one such strategy, just-in-time (JIT)-with-customers, and assessed its impact on organizational structure. Generally, this study seeks to replicate their original work with two primary differences: marketi…
The recent emergence of new organizational forms, for which the term demand satisfaction communities (DSC) is proposed, raises the question as to whether supply chain management practices are about to become obsolete. By tracking the history of practices and comparing them with those required to support the newly emerging forms of organizational relationships, it is possible to conclude that …
Drawing on the experience gained from the recent turnaround of fortunes at The CERT Group, describes the key role of customer service and the challenges associated with establishing a service culture in one of the UK's leading third party logistics providers. The process was so successful that the company branded it success with service'', thereby helping internal staff buy into the company's m…
This work presents the results of the survey “Organisational structures and logistics in the branded product history of the grocery section in Italy” developed with the aim of pointing out the organisational structures for the logistics co‐ordination of successful firms. Starting from a review of the literature on the main logistics organisation theories, this paper presents an organisati…
This study aims to assess the impact of a JIT-selling strategy on organizational structure by generally replicating the previous work of Germain et al.
The emergence of the network organization is a phenomenon that has given rise to much comment and analysis. These virtual organizations are characterized by a confederation of specialist skills or capabilities provided by the network members. It is argued that in turbulent environments such collaborative arrangements can provide a more effective means of satisfying customer needs at a profit th…
The research empirically investigates the relationships among supply chain B2B e-commerce, environmental uncertainty, organizational structure, and time-based delivery performance. The results show that B2B e-commerce enhances time-based delivery performance. The process turbulence component of environmental uncertainty has direct influence on B2B e-commerce implementation and an indirect influ…