Issues in Supply Chain Management Progress and potential

Issues in Supply Chain Management: Progress and potential. Highlights. Corporate success requires a change from managing individual functions to integrating activities into supply chain management processes. Supply chain management is about relationship management and the supply chain is managed link by link, relationship by relationship. Management should implement processes that increase the profitability of the supply chain, not just the profitability of a single firm. While transaction efficiency is important, failure to recognize the value of a relationship orientation will limit supply chain profitability. Academics can benefit from the description of the 25-year evolution of the SCM framework and the research methods used to develop it. In a 2000 article in Industrial Marketing Management , “Issues in Supply Chain Management,” Lambert and Cooper presented a framework for Supply Chain Management (SCM) as well as issues related to how it should be implemented and directions for future research. The framework was comprised of eight cross-functional, cross-firm business processes that could be used as a new way to manage relationships with suppliers and customers. It was based on research conducted by a team of academic researchers working with a group of executives from non-competing firms that had been meeting regularly since 1992 with the objective of improving SCM theory and practice. The research has continued for the past 16 years and now covers a total of 25 years. In this paper, we review the progress that has been made in the development and implementation of the proposed SCM framework since 2000 and identify opportunities for further research. Previous article in issue Next article in issue. Douglas M. Lambert (PhD The Ohio State University) holds the Raymond E. Mason Chair, is Professor of Marketing and Logistics, and Director of The Global Supply Chain Forum, Fisher College of Business, at The Ohio State University. His research interests include supply chain management, the role of partnerships in achieving a competitive advantage, and collaborating to co-create value. He has published more than 100 articles in numerous journals including Harvard Business Review , Industrial Marketing Management , Journal of Business Logistics , and Journal of Retailing , and is editor of Supply Chain Management: Processes , Partnerships , Performance , which is in its 4th edition. Matias G. Enz (PhD The Ohio State University) is an Assistant Professor in Supply Chain Management at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), and a member of the research team, The Global Supply Chain Forum at The Ohio State University. His research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, business relationships, and inter-organizational collaboration. He has published in Industrial Marketing Management , Journal of Business Logistics and Journal of Marketing Management. In addition to his PhD in Business Logistics he also holds an Industrial Engineering degree from Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina).