Supply Chain Measurement Activities

abridgment\nBoth practitioners and search scientists arrive noted a chip of problems regarding measurement activities during the past decade. The problems inform suggest that measurement activities argon fragmented both(prenominal) in spite of appearance and across organizations. Expands on a systems perspective on bestow image measurements and describes how problems can be communicated, understood and managed by exploitation methods and tools for describing interrelationships at heart imparting trains. experiential evidence from a upshot study of a Swedish home furnishing business supply range of a function provides data suggesting that firms within a supply chain cannot simply be categorise as either having espouse systems thinking or not. Rather, both organised models indicating a noble degree of systems thinking, and problems showing fragmentation, argon present. A performance model, which is utilise to reflect the systemic structure of an underlying supply chain and a potential integrator, is introduced and suggested as the focus of future research initiatives within supply chain measurements.\n\nArticle type: national study.\nKeywords: Supply chain, Measurement, Systems integration, Performance measurement.\n matter Indicators: Research Implications** Practice Implications** Originality** readability**\n\nInternational Journal of sensual Distribution & Logistics Management\n hatful 30 Number 10 2000 pp. 847-868\nCopyright © MCB University Press ISSN 0960-0035\n\n knowledgeability\nBackground\nThe interest in managing supply chains is growing rapidly among companies around the world. major forces behind this development are increasing competitive oblige and a belief that working cooperatively in supply chains can puddle a competitive advantage. Firms throw in the towel the old antagonistic go on to doing business in party favor of a more integrated management style center on coordinating activities along the supply chai n in order to attain or sustain their competitive position.\n set up activities in a supply chain...