... have a lower number of different outside contacts; smaller firms have less experience with EDI and are less likely to impose EDI systems on their suppliers or carriers. Globalization International operations Just‐in‐time Logistics Shipping Supply‐chain management It would follow...

... of supply chain participants to reduce total logistics costs (Harrington, 1987). Lambert and Stock (1993) discuss a case in which ILM yielded annual logistics cost savings of about $15 million. The term “supply chain management” is virtually synonymous with ILM. The supply chain includes buyers, suppliers...