作者: Sunder Kekre , Tridas Mukhopadhyay , Kannan Srinivasan
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-4949-9_12
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摘要: Supply chains today are increasingly depending on effective and efficient information exchanges between the value chain partners. Over last decade, practices such as just in time management, quick response manufacturing lean production systems have required coordinated reliable trading partners (HBS 1991). Massive investments technology (IT) been made by manufacturers, suppliers logistics providers with hope of achieving successful JIT implementation their supply (Kekre et al., 1992; Schonberger 1986). From a managerial standpoint, these companies face following questions: What operational gains accrued manufacturer suppliers? Does payoff?