Supply chain collaboration of the manufacturing firms in China: perspective from the practitioners
conference contribution
posted on 2024-10-31, 17:34authored byMeihua 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.
History
Start page
16
End page
22
Total pages
7
Outlet
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