SCM - Analytical Framework - Why It is a Separate Discipline - Simon Croom et al.

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: AN ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR CRITICAL LITERATURE REVIEW 

Dr. Simon Croom1 , Pietro Romano2  and Mihalis Giannakis1 

1 Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK 

2  Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padua, Vicenza, Italy 

Operations Management: Critical Perspectives on Business and Management, Volume 4

Michael Lewis, Nigel Slack

Taylor & Francis, 2003 - Production management - 576 pages

Page 3 of the file, page 77 in the book

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SCM Definitions

AUTHOR - DEFINITION 

Tan et al. (1998) 

Supply chain management encompasses materials/supply management from the supply of basic raw materials to final product (and possible recycling and re-use). Supply chain management focuses on how firms utilise their suppliers’ processes, technology and capability to enhance competitive advantage. It is a management philosophy that extends traditional intra-enterprise activities by bringing trading partners together with common goal of optimisation and efficiency. 

Berry et al. (1994) 

Supply chain management aims at building trust, exchanging information on market needs, developing new products, and reducing the supplier base to a particular OEM (original equipment manufacturer) so as to release management resources for developing meaningful, long term relationship. 

Jones and Riley (1985) 

An integrative approach to dealing with the planning and control of the materials flow from suppliers to end-users. 

Saunders (1995) 

External Chain is the total chain of exchange from original source of raw material, through the various firms involved in extracting and processing raw materials, manufacturing, assembling, distributing and retailing to ultimate end customers. 

Ellram (1991) 

A network of firms interacting to deliver product or service to the end customer, linking flows from raw material supply to final delivery. 

Christopher (1992) 

Network of organisations that are involved, through upstream and downstream linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of products and services in the hands of the ultimate consumer. 

Lee and Billington (1992) 

Networks of manufacturing and distribution sites that procure raw materials, transform them into  intermediate and finished products, and distribute the finished products to customers. 

Kopczak (1997) 

The set of entities, including suppliers, logistics services providers, manufacturers, distributors and resellers, through which materials, products and information flow. 

Lee and Ng (1997) 

A network of entities that starts with the suppliers’ supplier and end with the customers’ customers for the production and delivery of goods and services.