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The Rhetoric And Reality Of Supply Chain Management In Irish Business, Edward Sweeney
The Rhetoric And Reality Of Supply Chain Management In Irish Business, Edward Sweeney
Practitioner Journals
A strong focus of NITL’s research activity is on monitoring the extent to which SCM principles and concepts are adopted by organisations based in Ireland. For more than a decade this work has aimed to develop a profile of SCM adoption, as well as identifying some of the critical success factors and barriers influencing firms in their attempts to improve supply chain capability and performance. This article explains the role of SCM in Ireland’s economic recovery and provides an overview of NITL’s latest findings in relation to the adoption of SCM practices by firms in Ireland.
Putting Supply Chain Management (Scm) Theory Into Practice: The Role And Importance Of The People Dimension, Edward Sweeney
Putting Supply Chain Management (Scm) Theory Into Practice: The Role And Importance Of The People Dimension, Edward Sweeney
Practitioner Journals
This article deals with a number of supply chain management (SCM) issues:
- SCM’s “Big Idea” – integration
- Divergence of Theory and Practice - the limitations of “hard-wiring”
- The “Human Chain”
- The Way Forward – asking the right question?