Supply Chain Management: It's All About the Journey, Not the Destination

With over three decades of the use of the term “supply chain management,” five academic and practitioner perspectives of supply chain management are described. Much ink has been devoted to defining and developing the concept and analyzing its use or nonuse. The focus of this article is on academic e...

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Published inThe journal of supply chain management Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 8 - 20
Main Authors Ellram, Lisa M., Cooper, Martha C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wheat Ridge Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.01.2014
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Subjects
Analysis
Business enterprises
Councils
Forecasts and trends
Impact analysis
Inventory control
Literature reviews
Logistics
Management
Materials management
Methods
Name changes
Operations management
Organization theory
Product development
Research methodology
Studies
Supply chain management
supply chain management conceptualization
Supply chains
United States
United States > US
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Summary:With over three decades of the use of the term “supply chain management,” five academic and practitioner perspectives of supply chain management are described. Much ink has been devoted to defining and developing the concept and analyzing its use or nonuse. The focus of this article is on academic effort, with suggestions of how to proceed in the future.
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ArticleID:JSCM12043
ISSN:1523-2409
1745-493X
DOI:10.1111/jscm.12043