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Class Assignment 02 - What is SCM?

2024

Student: Ho Nhat Linh

Research: James R. Stock Stefanie L. Boyer, (2009),"Developing a consensus definition of


supply chain management: a qualitative study", International Journal of Physical Distribution
& Logistics Management, Vol. 39 Iss 8 pp. 690 - 711

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I. Research purpose:

There are many definitions of Supply chain Management. However, these definitions are not
consistent or confused with some other definitions. For example, In early definitions, the
term SCM was used, or perhaps misused, synonymously with traditional definitions of
logistics management. However, the consensus today seems to be that SCM is somewhat
more than logistics (Johnson and Wood, 1996; Lambert et al., 1998a, b).

Therefore this study reviewed 173 definitions of SCM across a diversity of journals and
books to find a single consensus definition because the author thought 'An integrated
definition of SCM would greatly benefit researchers' efforts to study the phenomenon of SCM
and those practitioners attempting to implement SCM'.

II. Methodology:

The ABI/INFORM database was searched with the keywords “supply chain management,”
“supply chain,” and “SCM.” The results of that search turned up more than 1,000 articles and
other documents containing definitions of SCM. If a definition of SCM is provided and the
author(s) has taken it from another source, the original origin of that definition has been
acknowledged.

A total of 173 unique definitions of SCM were identified from published sources up to 2008.
NVivo7, a popular quality analysis software package, was used to analyze these SCM
definitions ( QSR International, 2006).

As a result, a number of key SCM topics were generated from the most common concepts in
these definitions, helping to create a consensus definition for SCM.
To ensure the reliability of the results, Graneheim and Lundman's method was used to check
the reliability of the research results.

III. Results:

- Utilizing the themes and nodes identified from the qualitative analysis of the 173
definitions, the researchers attempted to discover if there were any trends evident
from the definitions offered by authors over the years that could result in the creation
of a consensus definition of SCM: (1) activities; (2) benefits; and (3)
constituents/components.
- A detailed analysis of the definitions and descriptions resulted in the identification of
several themes and sub-themes that occurred repeatedly throughout the dataset.
The sub-themes were labeled as:

- Each of these themes and sub-themes are included in the final definition to insure
that it includes the most salient aspects of each previously published definition. By
integrating these disparate, yet encompassing aspects, the research propose the
following encompassing definition of SCM:

´The management of a network of relationships within a firm and between interdependent


organizations and business units consisting of material suppliers, purchasing, production
facilities, logistics, marketing, and related systems that facilitate the forward and reverse flow
of materials, services, finances and information from the original producer to final customer
with the benefits of adding value, maximizing profitability through efficiencies, and achieving
customer satisfaction¨

IV: Comment on research

I believe that this study is capable of covering a very large definition of approximately 1000
articles and studies by authors around the world and drawing a final definition based on
more than 173 accepted and accepted definitions. However, because the final definition is
based on a synthesis of previous definitions, it may not bring new value or new definitions to
SCM and if the old definitions, although widely accepted, still have potential shortcomings.
then the universal definition will eventually be affected as well.

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