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Article: Strategic buyer-supplier relationships, information technology and external logistics integration.
- Article from:
- Journal of Supply Chain Management
- Article date:
- March 22, 2007
- Author:
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INTRODUCTION
Supply chain management (SCM) seeks to improve performance through elimination of waste and more efficient use of internal and external supplier capabilities and technology, creating a seamlessly coordinated supply chain and thus elevating interfirm competition to inter-supply chain competition (Anderson and Katz 1998). Many firms have recently embraced the notion of strategic buyer-supplier relationships to (1) improve efficiency and effectiveness across the value chain and (2) seamlessly integrate their physical distribution function with supply partners to achieve greater benefits.
Logistics management is the part of SCM that plans, ...