The main objective of this project report is to explain logistics collaboration in supply chains. Over the last 2 decades, a new craze towards integration and collaboration in supply chains is identified among experts and also among business professionals. This philosophy is known as supply chain management and it has gained massive interest in logistics study. Collaboration determined by supply chain management is predicted to lower total cost and enhance service towards the supply chain’s end clients simultaneously. It is incongruous about what is really done when businesses collaborate and what results are realized. We need more research so as to validate present literature. In this thesis, the view of a business is taken for supply chain management and examine what it really means for an individual company. We constructed a supply chain management questionnaire which was focused to the content of the collaboration and its driving forces, barriers and effects. In addition, differences between triadic collaborations, i.e. collaborations where both supplier and client of the focal company are involved, and dyadic collaborations (collaboration with either a supplier or a customer) were researched.
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Contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND
1.2 PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY
1.3 SCOPE AND FOCUS OF THE THESIS
1.4 SOME IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
1.4.1 Supply Chain Management and Logistics Management
1.4.2 Logistics collaboration
1.5 THESIS OUTLINE
2 FRAME OF REFERENCE
2.1 THE SCOPE OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
2.1.1 The functional scope of Supply Chain Management
2.1.2 The organisational scope of Supply Chain Management
2.2 THREE PERSPECTIVES ON SCM
2.2.1 SCM from a functional perspective
2.2.2 SCM from a processual perspective
2.2.3 SCM from an organisational perspective
2.3 LOGISTICS BUSINESS CONCEPTS BASED ON THE SCM-PHILOSOPHY
2.3.1 Efficient Consumer Response, ECR
2.3.2 Vendor Managed Inventory, VMI
2.3.3 Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment, CPFR
2.4 SCM FROM A FOCAL COMPANY PERSPECTIVE
2.4.1 Process approach
2.4.2 Planning of supply chain activities
2.4.3 Information sharing
2.4.4 Supply chain orientation
3 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
3.1 THE CONTENT OF LOGISTICS COLLABORATION
3.1.1 The process approach
3.1.2 The planning of supply chain activities
3.1.3 The information sharing
3.1.4 The supply chain orientation
3.1.5 Logistics areas where collaboration is performed
3.2 DRIVING FORCES, BARRIERS AND EFFECTS OF COLLABORATION
3.2.1 Driving forces
3.2.2 Barriers
3.2.3 Effects
3.3 TYPE OF COLLABORATION
4 METHODOLOGY
4.1 RESEARCH DESIGN
4.2 THE DIFFERENT STEPS IN THE STUDY
4.2.1 Preparation of a questionnaire
4.2.2 Layout of the questionnaire
4.2.3 The pilot
4.2.4 The sample
4.2.5 Data collection and response rate
4.2.6 Missing data analysis
4.2.7 Analysis methods in SPSS
4.2.8 How the analysis was performed
4.2.9 Further analysis and discussion
4.3 VALIDITY
4.4 RELIABILITY
5 DATA ANALYSIS
5.1 BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RESPONDENTS
5.2 THE CONTENT OF LOGISTICS COLLABORATION
5.2.1 The process approach
5.2.2 The planning of supply chain activities
5.2.3 The information sharing
5.2.4 The respondents’ supply chain orientation
5.2.5 Logistics areas where collaboration is performed
5.2.6 Relations between aspects corresponding to the content of logistics collaboration
5.3 DRIVING FORCES, BARRIERS AND EFFECTS OF LOGISTICS COLLABORATION
5.3.1 Driving forces for logistics collaboration
5.3.2 Barriers for logistics collaboration
5.3.3 Effects of logistics collaboration
5.3.4 Relations between driving forces, barriers and effects of the collaboration
5.4 TYPE OF COLLABORATION
5.5 RELATIONS BETWEEN DIFFERENT RESEARCH QUESTIONS
5.5.1 The content and driving forces, barriers and effects of the collaboration
5.5.2 The content in the different types of collaboration
5.5.3 The driving forces, barriers and effects in the different types of collaboration
6 A COMPARISON TO THE LITERATURE
6.1 THE CONTENT OF LOGISTICS COLLABORATION
6.1.1 The process approach
6.1.2 The planning of supply chain activities
6.1.3 The information sharing
6.1.4 The actions undertaken in the collaboration
6.1.5 The respondents’ supply chain orientation
6.1.6 Logistics areas where collaboration is performed
6.2 DRIVING FORCES, BARRIERS AND EFFECTS OF LOGISTICS COLLABORATION
6.2.1 Driving forces
6.2.2 Barriers
6.2.3 Effects …..
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