Knowledge management practices in supply chain: A sectorial analysis

Author

Kant, R. ; Patel, D.P. ; Singh, Moirangthem Dennis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Sardar Vallabhbhai Nat. Inst. of Technol., Surat, India

fYear

2011

fDate

14-17 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

520

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the similarities in knowledge management (KM) practices in supply chain (SC) among different selected sectors of Indian manufacturing organizations through formulation and testing of some hypotheses. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted on four sectors namely Automobile (Auto), Engineering, Process and FMCG (Fast Moving Consumer Goods). The findings of the sectorial analysis show that selected sectors do not significantly differ on use of various channels in managing the explicit knowledge of SC, use of KM in improving SC efficiency and its SC effectiveness.

Keywords

knowledge management; supply chain management; supply chains; Indian manufacturing organization; automobile; engineering; fast moving consumer goods; knowledge management practices; questionnaire-based survey; sectorial analysis; supply chain; Analysis of variance; Knowledge engineering; Knowledge management; Manufacturing; Organizations; Supply chains; Efficiency; Indian manufacturing organizations; KM; SC; effectiveness; sectors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality and Reliability (ICQR), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangkok

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0626-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICQR.2011.6031593

Filename

6031593