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Supply chain collaboration of the manufacturing firms in China: perspective from the practitioners

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posted on 2024-10-31, 17:34 authored by Meihua Gu, Kwok Hung LauKwok Hung Lau, M Sri Daran P Madhavan Nair
Through a comprehensive desktop research reviewing the relevant literature and analysing secondary data, this paper evaluates the supply chain collaboration competency of the indigenous Chinese manufacturing firms from five key aspects: aligned strategies, collaborative planning and forecasting, information sharing, integrated and optimized logistics process, and collaborative training. It also identifies four major institutional barriers encountered by the manufacturers, including transactional relationship, poor inter-organizational information system, low performance of third-party logistics service providers (3PLs) and guanxi. The findings reveal that an increasing number of manufacturing firms have started to recognize that supply chain collaboration can be an effective tool to improve efficiency. Nevertheless, adoption of supply chain collaboration practices in China is not widespread and is limited to leading enterprises and regions only. Few Chinese companies have set up formal forecasting, demand management, or market intelligence unit for capacity and inventory planning. Their suppliers are often reluctant to provide detailed information about their operations. Furthermore, to improve the supply chain collaboration capability of the Chinese manufacturing firms, multiple institutional barriers will also need to be overcome.

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16

End page

22

Total pages

7

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Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2013) - Resilient Supply Chains in an Uncertain Environment

Editors

K S Pawar, H Rogers

Name of conference

18th International Symposium on Logistics (ISL 2013) - Resilient Supply Chains in an Uncertain Environment

Publisher

Centre for Concurrent Enterprise, Nottingham University Business School

Place published

Nottingham, UK

Start date

2013-07-07

End date

2013-07-10

Language

English

Copyright

© Copyright Nottingham University Business School, 2013

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2006044692

Esploro creation date

2020-06-22

Fedora creation date

2014-06-10

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