Development of strategies for shortening supply chain and demand chain

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hwang, Ming-Hon^{a; b} | Rau, Hsin^{b; *}

Affiliations: [a] Department of Information Management, Diwan College of Management, Taiwan | [b] Department of Industrial Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. Tel.: +886 3 2654417; E-mail: hsinrau@cycu.edu.tw.

Abstract: Supply chain management (SCM) recently has attracted a lot of attention from industrial practitioners and academics worldwide. Moreover, shortening a supply chain has been a main issue in supply chain management. Shortening supply chain means reducing the process time required for supply chain activities, which are logistics, business, information, cash flow and design process, etc. This study proposes methods of shortening supply chain based on the activities listed above together with their classification and descriptions. To analyze the cause and effect between those solutions and methods of shortening supply chain, this study uses the cause and effect diagram as a supporting method. Additionally, to understand the efficiency of these methods, this study builds up a supply chain performance measure to evaluate the efficiency of methods of shortening supply chain.

Keywords: Supply chain, competitive strategy, demand chain

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-2006-25404

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 255-263, 2006