... manufacturing. Originality/value – The authors outline a typology of digital manufacturing-driven transformations and identify propositions to be explored in further research and practice. Information technology Innovation Manufacturing Logistics Jan Holmström can be contacted...

... in this context and investigate the precise role of information technology (IT) therein. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical evidence is gathered by means of exploratory and explanatory case research, with multiple cases at the planning departments of European freight carriers operating in collaborative...

... and recently implemented planning concept. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Planning Supply chain Information technology Centralisation Implementation IKEA Supply chain management This paper is concerned with when centralised supply chain planning is appropriate, what outcomes...

... IT business value Germany Information technology Web‐based information technologies (hereafter called e‐business (EB) applications) have fundamentally changed the way companies work along their supply chain (Sanders, 2007). Despite the economic crises companies are continuously investing...

... activities; their fusion of information technology to speed up business transactions; their approach to supply chain strategy to improve bottom line results – that has restricted them from achieving global standards? The article, based on a recently concluded nationwide study titled “Supply chain management...

... dynamics, and by extension the appropriation of value, in the chain. Buyer ignorance and information asymmetries are identified as the key factors in this case that determines the appropriation of value. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Supply chaigu4n Value chain Information technology Systems...

...Hans Voordijk Argues that logistics networks in the building industry will develop in relation to transaction‐specific investments in new information technologies such as EDI and PDI. This is particularly the case where strategic considerations play a subordinate role and efficiency arguments...

.... A system to cope with traceability in potatoes will not address the issues in apples, so a retailer carrying 30,000 products or a processor using 30 ingredients may need to use many different systems. Information technology has developed over the last decade to a point where it can quickly...

... standpoints. The structural standpoint relates to the specific information technology endowment of the members that, due to the wide range of available networks, may also be equipped with incompatible systems. Indeed, a network of small firms may be unable to equip itself with an information system compatible...