Determinants of effective supply chain partnering in the context of electrical and electronics firms in Malaysia
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Date
2006
Authors
Rajagopal, Premkumar
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Abstract
Supply chain management has been recently introduced to address the partnering of
organizational functions ranging from the ordering and receipt of raw materials
throughout the manufacturing processes, to the distribution and delivery of products
to the customer.
Its application demonstrates that this idea enables organizations to achieve
improved procurement, lowered operations cost, and lower inventory. There are three
major objectives for this research.
The first objective is to have an understanding of supply chain partnering and
to examine whether the effectiveness of supply chain partnering is influenced by
factors such as supply chain infrastructure, resource sharing, information flow and
organizational linkage. The second objective is to identify a set of the most significant
factors that influence the effectiveness of supply chain partnering. The third objective
is to examine if scalable partnering moderates the relationship between effectiveness
of supply chain partnering with supply chain infrastructure, information flow,
resource sharing and organizational linkage.
This dissertation extends the previous work done on the supply chain
relationship and identifies a moderator that influences the supply chain partnering.
This study brings together information about supply chain partnering from (129)
electrical and electronics companies and detailed experiences of the supply chain
partnering from 2 leading quality electrical and electronics companies in Malaysia.
Factors which influence the effectiveness of supply chain partnering and how
level of scalable partnering influences the effectiveness of supply chain partnering,
are examined. The findings from mail survey study indicate the importance of such
factors as the supply chain infrastructure, information flow and organizational
linkage, in explaining a company's effectiveness in implementing the supply chain
partnering. At a statistical level of investigation, this implicitly suggests that the factor
of information flow and organizational linkage are the most important factor, which
influences the effectiveness of supply chain partnering.
In the second part of the study, case study survey data is used to shed light on
how the factors of supply chain infrastructure, resource sharing, information flow and
organizational linkage influence the effectiveness of supply chain partnering. The
case studies appear to suggest that the organizational linkage and information flow
have the highest explanatory power with regard to companies’ effectiveness of supply
chain partnering.
Instead, the case study suggests that the effectiveness of supply chain
partnering is less driven by resource sharing and supply chain infrastructure. High
scalable partnering is more effective than low scalable partnering for all levels of
organizational linkage and resource sharing, which influences supply chain
partnering. This dissertation presents two new variables, called “resource sharing” and
“scalable partnering” to enhance supply chain partnering effectiveness. Expected
outcomes and contributions as well as future research are also provided.
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PhD
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Management , Supply chain partnering , Electrical and electronics firms