| Scale and item | Loadings | CR | AVE | α | MSV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Platforms | 0.78 | 0.54 | 0.77 | 0.19 | |
| IoT platforms for controlling production, logistics, or products and managing data (e.g. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, IBM Watson IoT, IoT Ticket) | 0.64 | ||||
| Integration platforms for enterprise application integration (e.g. Mulesoft, Jakamo, Liaison) | 0.81 | ||||
| Supply chain management platforms for integration of processes between companies and multiplexing interactions (e.g. Pool for Tool, SAP Ariba, Jakamo, or firm SCM portal) | 0.74 | ||||
| Digital Culture | 0.87 | 0.57 | 0.86 | 0.33 | |
| Adapted from Blatz et al. (2018) | |||||
| There is a positive attitude to digital technologies | 0.81 | ||||
| Employees are ready to take advantage of new digital operations models | 0.83 | ||||
| Employees see opportunities in digitalization | 0.88 | ||||
| There is a positive attitude in a firm to remote working with digital technologies | 0.53 | ||||
| There is a positive attitude to the training on digitalization | 0.71 | ||||
| Supply Chain Capability (SCC) Adapted from Wu et al. (2006) and Yu et al. (2018) | 0.83 | 0.56 | 0.90 | 0.28 | |
| Information Exchange (IE) | 0.92 | 0.75 | 0.93 | ||
| Our company exchanges more information with its partners than our competitors do with their partners | 0.85 | ||||
| Information flows more freely between our company and its partners than between our competitors and their partners | 0.88 | ||||
| Our company benefits more from information exchange with its partners than our competitors do from exchanges with their partners | 0.90 | ||||
| Our information exchange with our partners is superior to the information exchange of our competitors and their partners | 0.83 | ||||
| Activity Integration (AI) | 0.89 | 0.74 | 0.89 | ||
| Our company develops strategic plans in collaboration with its partners | 0.74 | ||||
| Our company collaborates on forecasting and planning with its partners | 0.93 | ||||
| Our company projects and plans future demand collaboratively with its partners | 0.90 | ||||
| Responsiveness | 0.85 | 0.60 | 0.85 | ||
| Compared to our competitors, our supply chain responds more quickly and effectively to changing customer and supplier needs | 0.78 | ||||
| Compared to our competitors, our supply chain develops and markets new products more quickly and effectively | 0.70 | ||||
| In most markets, our supply chain competes effectively | 0.88 | ||||
| The relationship with our partners has increased our supply chain responsiveness to market changes through collaboration | 0.71 | ||||
| Coordination | 0.66 | 0.42 | 0.69 | ||
| Our company conducts transaction follow-up activities more efficiently with our partners than do our competitors with their own partners | 0.66 | ||||
| Our company spends less time coordinating transactions with our partners than our competitors with their own partners | 0.60 | ||||
| Our company has reduced partnering costs more than our competitors | 0.66 | ||||
| Our company can perform the business at less cost than our competitors | Deleted | ||||
| Operational Performance Adapted from Ward and Duray (2000); Wong et al. (2011) | 0.72 | 0.41 | 0.86 | 0.33 | |
| Delivery performance | 0.86 | 0.61 | 0.85 | ||
| Our delivery times are shorter than industry average | 0.59 | ||||
| Our delivery punctuality is good or better than the industry average | 0.96 | ||||
| The reliability of our delivery is good or better than industry average | 0.96 | ||||
| We have been able to reduce the time it takes to process the order more than the industry average | 0.54 | ||||
| Cost performance | 0.84 | 0.56 | 0.84 | ||
| Our production costs are below industry average | 0.81 | ||||
| The cost of storing our products is lower than industry average | 0.60 | ||||
| Overheads of our products are lower than industry average | 0.78 | ||||
| Price competitiveness of our products is better than industry average | 0.80 | ||||
| Quality performance | 0.87 | 0.77 | 0.87 | ||
| The quality of our products has been steady and quality deviations are less common than the industry average | 0.89 | ||||
| Our products are reliable and match our customers' standards better than the industry average | 0.87 | ||||
| Production flexibility | 0.87 | 0.78 | 0.87 | ||
| Our ability to change production volume is better than industry average | Deleted | ||||
| Our ability to customize products is better than industry average | 0.79 | ||||
| Our ability to make rapid changes in product offering is better than industry average | 0.96 |
| Scale and item | Loadings | CR | AVE | MSV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IoT platforms for controlling production, logistics, or products and managing data (e.g. Microsoft Azure IoT Hub, IBM Watson IoT, IoT Ticket) | 0.64 | ||||
| Integration platforms for enterprise application integration (e.g. Mulesoft, Jakamo, Liaison) | 0.81 | ||||
| Supply chain management platforms for integration of processes between companies and multiplexing interactions (e.g. Pool for Tool, SAP Ariba, Jakamo, or firm SCM portal) | 0.74 | ||||
| Adapted from | |||||
| There is a positive attitude to digital technologies | 0.81 | ||||
| Employees are ready to take advantage of new digital operations models | 0.83 | ||||
| Employees see opportunities in digitalization | 0.88 | ||||
| There is a positive attitude in a firm to remote working with digital technologies | 0.53 | ||||
| There is a positive attitude to the training on digitalization | 0.71 | ||||
| 0.92 | 0.75 | 0.93 | |||
| Our company exchanges more information with its partners than our competitors do with their partners | 0.85 | ||||
| Information flows more freely between our company and its partners than between our competitors and their partners | 0.88 | ||||
| Our company benefits more from information exchange with its partners than our competitors do from exchanges with their partners | 0.90 | ||||
| Our information exchange with our partners is superior to the information exchange of our competitors and their partners | 0.83 | ||||
| 0.89 | 0.74 | 0.89 | |||
| Our company develops strategic plans in collaboration with its partners | 0.74 | ||||
| Our company collaborates on forecasting and planning with its partners | 0.93 | ||||
| Our company projects and plans future demand collaboratively with its partners | 0.90 | ||||
| 0.85 | 0.60 | 0.85 | |||
| Compared to our competitors, our supply chain responds more quickly and effectively to changing customer and supplier needs | 0.78 | ||||
| Compared to our competitors, our supply chain develops and markets new products more quickly and effectively | 0.70 | ||||
| In most markets, our supply chain competes effectively | 0.88 | ||||
| The relationship with our partners has increased our supply chain responsiveness to market changes through collaboration | 0.71 | ||||
| 0.66 | 0.42 | 0.69 | |||
| Our company conducts transaction follow-up activities more efficiently with our partners than do our competitors with their own partners | 0.66 | ||||
| Our company spends less time coordinating transactions with our partners than our competitors with their own partners | 0.60 | ||||
| Our company has reduced partnering costs more than our competitors | 0.66 | ||||
| Our company can perform the business at less cost than our competitors | |||||
| 0.86 | 0.61 | 0.85 | |||
| Our delivery times are shorter than industry average | 0.59 | ||||
| Our delivery punctuality is good or better than the industry average | 0.96 | ||||
| The reliability of our delivery is good or better than industry average | 0.96 | ||||
| We have been able to reduce the time it takes to process the order more than the industry average | 0.54 | ||||
| 0.84 | 0.56 | 0.84 | |||
| Our production costs are below industry average | 0.81 | ||||
| The cost of storing our products is lower than industry average | 0.60 | ||||
| Overheads of our products are lower than industry average | 0.78 | ||||
| Price competitiveness of our products is better than industry average | 0.80 | ||||
| 0.87 | 0.77 | 0.87 | |||
| The quality of our products has been steady and quality deviations are less common than the industry average | 0.89 | ||||
| Our products are reliable and match our customers' standards better than the industry average | 0.87 | ||||
| 0.87 | 0.78 | 0.87 | |||
| Our ability to change production volume is better than industry average | |||||
| Our ability to customize products is better than industry average | 0.79 | ||||
| Our ability to make rapid changes in product offering is better than industry average | 0.96 |
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