ǂA ǂframework for managing future supply chain trends

utilization of lean, agile and leagile strategies

Waleed Rashad (Avtor), Zlatko Nedelko (Mentor), Vojko Potočan (Komentor)

Povzetek

The supply chain has become very essential to run any business nowadays. Throughout the history of business, the professionals have been trying always to find out the best practice, and as long as the business concept is evolved over time, the practice, methodologies and techniques of doing the business also have been evolved. This evolvement led to the concept of supply chain initially and then later it became essential to have strategy for supply chain. The evolvement of the markets, globalization, and new technologies became very decisive subjects for building any supply chain and developing its strategy, but there are many other events that may take place which could enforce the supply chain decision makers to change the current approach of running their business. The dynamic business environment and the possible future trends of the global markets represent a real challenge for development of appropriate supply chain strategies, like lean, agility, and leagility. Therefore, it is very important to assess how different possible strategies are suitable for the future changes of the markets? This is to enable the supply chain to be prepared with adequate strategies for different future scenarios. To achieve this aim of preparing the supply chains for the future with adequate strategies, a deep study is done to research lean, agility and leagility, explaining the similarities and differences of these concepts. These strategies are dealing with the most important factors in supply chains; the time and the cost, what is the key reason for selecting these particular strategies lies in the fact, that they are concerned with improving the effectiveness and responsiveness in the supply chain and this is extremely important for the future. We continued study of these strategies by development of three possible future scenarios for energy scarcity, new international monetary system, and wars. The reason of developing these particular scenarios is because they are concerned with the most important political and economic events which could happen and affect the supply chains in the future (EY, 2013; Cook, 2006; Sokov, 2015). These scenarios are established to anticipate the possible challenges which could face the supply chain strategies in the future and to evaluate the suitability of supply chain strategies for such future scenarios. A survey of 150 supply chain professionals, who are working currently in the field of supply chain management, is done in two phases. The first phase is focusing on recognition of the opinions of surveyed supply chain professionals towards the supply chain strategies and their utilization. Based on the theoretical knowledge of the academic literature reviewed in this research, proposed scenarios, and the feedback of professionals in the survey, it was evident that supply chains’ managers need adequate framework, which will support improvement of current and future supply chain management. Therefore, the grounded theory methodology is used to create a new conceptual framework. The core idea of the proposed framework is to improve the global sourcing practice, which consequently will enable improving the management of supply chains according to the predicted scenarios. A second phase of survey is conducted to present the proposed framework to the supply chain professionals for evaluation. The proposed framework adds value to the global sourcing process, which enhancing the supply chain collaboration and helps to support the selected supply chain strategies for consideration – i.e., lean, agility, and leagility, to work better in the future. The proposed framework represents scientific contribution to the supply chain strategies utilization in practice. The results of this contribution are obviously to fill the gap highlighted by the supply chain professionals in the survey, who highlighted the essential need for improvement to the supply chain collaboration globally, and this will be the basic c

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Keywords: supply chain strategies;lean;agility;leagility;supply chain future trends;supply chain management;grounded theory;scenario planning;supply chain collaboration;sourcing.;

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Jezik:	Angleški jezik
Leto izida:	2020
Tipologija:	2.08 - Doktorska disertacija
Organizacija:	UM FL - Fakulteta za logistiko
Založnik:	[W. Rashad]
UDK:	005.51(043.3)
COBISS:	53906435
Št. ogledov:	570
Št. prenosov:	74
Ocena:	0 (0 glasov)
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Sekundarni jezik:	Slovenski jezik
Sekundarni naslov:	Okvir za management prihodnjih trendov v oskrbovalnih verigah – uporaba vitke, agilne in leagilne strategije
Sekundarni povzetek:	Povzetek Management oskrbovalne verige je dandanes postal bistven pri vodenju katerega koli posla. Strokovnjaki se skozi zgodovino poslovanja trudijo najti najboljše prakse in medtem ko se poslovni koncept postopoma razvija, se razvijajo tudi prakse, metodologije in tehnike poslovanja. Ta razvoj je najprej vodil do koncepta oskrbovalne verige, kasneje pa je postalo bistveno imeti ustrezne strategije za management oskrbovalne verige. Razvoj trgov, globalizacija in nove tehnologije so postale zelo odločilne teme za gradnjo katere koli oskrbovalne verige in razvijanje njene strategije, vendar se lahko zgodijo številni drugi dogodki, ki bi lahko prisilili odločevalce v oskrbovalni verigi, da spremenijo trenutni posopek vodenja svojih poslov. Dinamično poslovno okolje in možni prihodnji trendi globalnih trgov predstavljajo na področju razvoja in pri uporabi primernih strategij oskrbovalnih verig vedno nove izzive, kot so vitkost, agilnost in leagilnost. Torej postavi se vprašanje, ali je zelo pomembno oceniti, v koliki meri so različne možne strategije ustrezne za prihodnje delovanje oskrbovalnih verig. Na podlagi takšnega izhodišča je mogoče doseči, da je oskrbovalna veriga pripravljena z ustreznimi strategijami za različne prihodnje scenarije. Za dosego cilja priprave oskrbovalne verige na prihodnost z ustreznimi strategijami je bila izvedena poglobljena študija za raziskavo uporabe vitkosti, agilnosti ter leagilnosti v različnih okoliščinah. Te strategije obravnavajo najpomembnejša dejavnika v oskrbovalnih verigah - čas in stroške; glavni razlog za izbiro točno teh strategij se nahaja v dejstvu, da se le-te ukvarjajo z izboljšanjem učinkovitosti in odzivnosti v oskrbovalni verigi, kar je izredno pomembno za prihodnost, kakor tudi seveda sedanje delovanje. V nadaljevanju preučevanja teh strategij smo nadaljevali z razvojem treh možnih prihodnjih scenarijev za primere pomanjkanja energije, novega mednarodnega denarnega sistema ter vojne. Razlog za razvijanje teh določenih scenarijev je v tem, da le-ti zadevajo najpomembnejše politične in gospodarske dogodke, ki bi se lahko zgodili, in bi tako vplivali na oskrbovalne verige in njihovo delovanje v prihodnosti (EY, 2013; Cook, 2006; Sokov, 2015). Namen teh scenarijev je poskus predvidevanja možnih izzivov, s katerimi bi se utegnili soočiti zaradi uporabe strategij oskrbovalne verige v prihodnosti in tako oceniti ustreznost strategij oskrbovalne verige za podobne prihodnje scenarije. Anketo smo izvedli med 150 strokovnjaki, ki trenutno delujejo na področju managementa oskrbovalne verige in predstavljajo pomemben gradnik v rezultatih naše raziskave. Raziskava je potekala v dveh fazah. Prva faza raziskave se osredotoča na prepoznavanje mnenj anketiranih strokovnjakov oskrbovalne verige glede strategij same oskrbovalne verige. Na podlagi teoretičnega znanja iz znanstvene literature, ki je bila proučena za to raziskavo, predlaganih scenarijev ter povratne informacije strokovnjakov v anketi je postalo jasno, da potrebujejo managerji za management oskrbovalne verige ustrezen okvir, ki bo podpiral izboljšanje trenutnega in prihodnjega managementa oskrbovalne verige. Tako je utemeljena teorija (ang. Grounded theory) uporabljena v ta namen, da ustvari nov teoretični okvir, v katerem je osnovna ideja predlaganega okvira izboljšati svetovno prakso pridobivanja virov, ki bo posledično omogočala izboljšanje managementa oskrbovalne verige glede na napovedane scenarije. Druga faza ankete je bila izvedena z namenom, da se strokovnjakom oskrbovalne verige predstavi predlagan okvir za postopek ocenjevanja. Predlagani okvir dodaja vrednost globalnemu procesu koriščenja zunanjih izvajalcev, hkrati pa krepi sodelovanje znotraj oskrbovalne verige in pomaga podpirati ter upoštevati izbrane strategije oskrbovalne verige – tj. vitkost, agilnost in leagilnost za boljše delo v prihodnje v različnih okoliščinah. Predlagan okvir predstavlja znanstveni prispevek k uporabi strategij oskrbovalne verige v praksi v
Sekundarne ključne besede:	strategija;vitkost;agilnost;le-agilnost;trendi;utemeljena teorija;scenarijsko planiranje;sodelovanje;logistika;Oskrbovalne verige;Disertacije;Management;
Vrsta dela (COBISS):	Doktorska disertacija
Komentar na gradivo:	Univ. v Mariboru, Fak. za logistiko
Strani:	XLI, 252 str.
ID:	11988926