A STUDY OF SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION WITHIN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

摘要

Central to the idea of Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the coordination that a company has with their supply chain members. Under the backdrop of information technology use, this paper investigates a company's use of coordinating activities. Principal components analysis was used to develop sets of coordination variables, one for customers and one for suppliers, from data collected from a survey of the food industry. It is shown that firms approach the use of coordination activities differently, depending on whether the supply chain member is a supplier or a customer.