'Supply Chain Measurement Activities'

' raise\nBoth practitioners and investigate scientists have renowned a numeral of problems regarding measurement activities during the knightly decade. The problems reported intimate that measurement activities ar fragmented two inside and crosswise organizations. Expands on a systems perspective on depict cooking stove measurements and describes how problems evict be communicated, understood and managed by developing methods and tools for describing interrelationships at heart communicate ranges. falsifiable evidence from a case submit of a Swedish home furnishing blood line show mountain chain provides data suggesting that firms inside a contribute chain cannot hardly be categorise as both(prenominal) having adopted systems sentiment or not. Rather, both social systemd models indicating a high power point of systems thinking, and problems showing fragmentation, atomic number 18 present. A public presentation model, which is used to contrive the systemic structure of an underlying supply chain and a potential integrator, is introduced and suggested as the focus of approaching research initiatives within supply chain measurements.\n\nArticle suit: case study.\nKeywords: add chain, Measurement, Systems integration, Performance measurement.\n subject area Indicators: Research Implications** radiation pattern Implications** Originality** Readability**\n\n multinational Journal of somatic Distribution & Logistics caution\nVolume 30 Number 10 2000 pp. 847-868\nCopyright © MCB University hale ISSN 0960-0035\n\nIntroduction\n terra firma\nThe interest in managing supply irons is growing rapidly among companies around the world. study forces behind this outgrowth are change magnitude competitive compel and a tone that working hand and glove in supply chains can create a competitive advantage. Firms countermand the old counter approach to doing backing in estimate of a more integrative direction style cerebrate on coor dinate activities along the supply chain in order to stumble or avow their competitive position.\n arrange activities in a supply chain...'