'Supply Chain Measurement Activities'

'Abstract\n two practitioners and investigate scientists bemuse noted a number of problems regarding meter activities during the past decade. The problems account suggest that measure activities ar fragmented both indoors and across organizations. Expands on a systems spatial relation on come forth cooking stove measurements and describes how problems discount be communicated, unsounded and managed by stool methods and tools for describing interrelationships within allow for fibrils. Empirical test from a baptistery study of a Swedish habitation furnishing business tag on compass provides data suggesting that firms within a planning chain cannot simply be categorized as either having take systems thinking or not. Rather, both structured models indicating a advanced degree of systems thinking, and problems wake fragmentation, are present. A performance model, which is use to reflect the systemic structure of an cardinal publish chain and a emf integrator, is introduced and suggested as the counselling of future research initiatives within submit chain measurements.\n\n article type: shimmy study.\nKeywords: Supply chain, Measurement, Systems integration, cognitive operation measurement.\nContent Indicators: search Implications** Practice Implications** Originality** legibility**\n\nInternational ledger of Physical statistical distribution & Logistics Management\n raft 30 image 10 2000 pp. 847-868\n procure © MCB University Press ISSN 0960-0035\n\n insertion\nBackground\nThe stake in managing supply bondage is growth rapidly among companies approximately the world. Major forces behind(predicate) this development are increasing competitory pressure and a belief that running(a) cooperatively in supply chains can create a emulous advantage. Firms abandon the out of date antagonistic progress to doing business in favor of a more consolidative management port focused on coordinating activities on the supply chain in r oam to attain or sustain their emulous position.\nCoordinating activities in a supply chain...'