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Supply Chains

Supply Chains

Supply Chains is a project placed under the Centre for Logistics and Freight Transport (CLG), the Technical University of Denmark. The project is headed by professor Tage Skjøtt-Larsen, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School.
The project is headed by professor Tage Skjøtt-Larsen, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School.
Other participants:
  • Aage Michelsen, associate professor, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, the Technical University of Denmark
  • Prabir K. Bagchi, professor, George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA
    Herbert Kotzab, associate professor, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School
  • Árni Halldórsson, assistant professor, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School
  • Lars Bøge Sørensen, Ph.D. student, Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School
  • Kim Bjergelund, Ph.D. student, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, the Technical University of Denmark.
The objective of the project is to produce new knowledge of how supply chains are developed, configured, organised and managed. Furthermore, the intention is to define performance targets for supply chains and identify relationships between structures and performance targets. Finally, the objective is to suggest new cooperation models in supply chains in the light of the prospects that new IT and communication systems offer.
Many Danish companies are actors in global supply chains. Therefore, there is a need to know, which configurations of supply chains are most appropriate under various conditions. An empirical analysis of different structures and cooperation forms will be a valuable input to decision-makers in Danish business.
There is only limited knowledge on the key performance indicators applicable in measuring and controlling supply chains, just as knowledge is lacking on the relationship between configuration and internal and external efficiency. The project will add to this knowledge by including international researchers in a collaboration project.
Management and organisation of supply chains make specific demands on team management, distribution of benefits/risks, integration of information systems and mechanisms for developing competences. The project will be able to contribute with both Danish and international research results in the field.
Transport companies are increasingly included as integrated partners in supply chains. The project "third party logistics" will contribute with knowledge on how competences are developed and distribution of roles and power is changed between the parties in third party logistics collaboration.
Project activities:
1.
A PhD project on Generic elements and structures in supply chains. The project is placed at the Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, the Technical University of Denmark, with associate professor Aage Michelsen as the primary supervisor and professor Tage Skjøtt-Larsen as co-supervisor.
2.
A PhD project on Risk Managemen in supply chains. The project is placed at the Department of Operations Management, Copenhagen Business School, with professor Tage Skjøtt-Larsen as the primary supervisor.
3.
An international research project on Supply Chain Integration. The project is carried out in collaboration between the Copenhagen Business School and professor Prabir K. Bagchi, George Washington University, USA.
4.
An international research project on Key performance indicators in supply chain management carried out in collaboration between the Copenhagen Business School and Erlangen-Nürnberg University.
5.
An international research project on Third party logistics - developing competencies in supply chain relations carried out in collaboration between the Copenhagen Business School and a number of Nordic universities.
The following articles and conference papers have been published:
1.
Tage Skjøtt-Larsen & Prabir K. Bagchi:
Organizational Integration in Supply Chains. A Contingency Approach. Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2002, pp. 1-10.
2.
Prabir K. Bagchi & Tage Skjøtt-Larsen:
Integration of Information Technology and Organizations in a Supply Chain Network. International Journal of Logistics Management, Vol. 14, No. 1, 2003.
3.
Tage Skjøtt-Larsen et al:
Third Party Logistics in the Nordic Countries. Paper presented at NOFOMA 2003, Oulu 12-13 June, Finland.
4.
Arni Halldorsson & Tage Skjøtt-Larsen:
Dynamics of Relationship Governance in 3PL relationships - a dyadic perspective. Paper presented at NOFOMA 2003, Oulu 12-13 June.
5.
Prabir K. Bagchi, Byoung-Chun Ha, Tage Skjøtt-Larsen & Lars Bøge Sørensen:
Organizatinal Integration in Supply Networks. Proceedings of NOFOMA 2003, Oulu 12-13, June, Finland.
6.
Jan Mouritsen, Tage Skjøtt-Larsen & Herbert Kotzab:
The Supply Chain Management integration assumption - its dilemma, meaning and validity. Integrated Manufacturing Systems, 2003 (forthcoming).

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