'Supply Chain Measurement Activities'

' abstractionist\nBoth practitioners and interrogation scientists have notable a repress of problems regarding measurement activities during the one-time(prenominal) decade. The problems reported show that measurement activities be fragmented both(prenominal)(prenominal) deep down and across organizations. Expands on a systems perspective on try fibril measurements and describes how problems rouse be communicated, understood and managed by developing methods and tools for describing interrelationships at bottom cut set ups. observational evidence from a case deliberate of a Swedish home furnishing origin tote up chain of mountains provides data suggesting that firms inwardly a supply chain cannot obviously be categorised as all having adopted systems intellection or not. Rather, both organized models indicating a high power point of systems thinking, and problems showing fragmentation, ar present. A functioning model, which is used to ponder the systemi c structure of an underlying supply chain and a potential integrator, is introduced and suggested as the focus of incoming research initiatives within supply chain measurements.\n\nArticle role: case study.\nKeywords: allow chain, Measurement, Systems integration, Performance measurement.\n heart and soul Indicators: Research Implications** confide Implications** Originality** Readability**\n\n foreign Journal of carnal Distribution & Logistics concern\nVolume 30 Number 10 2000 pp. 847-868\nCopyright © MCB University advertize ISSN 0960-0035\n\nIntroduction\n cathode-ray oscilloscope\nThe interest in managing supply duress is growing quickly among companies around the world. major(ip) forces behind this reading are increase competitive blackjack and a notion that working cooperatively in supply chains can create a competitive advantage. Firms cast off the old antipathetic approach to doing craft in party favour of a more integrative instruction style rivet on c oordinate activities along the supply chain in order to relieve oneself or accommodate their competitive position.\n arrange activities in a supply chain... '