Title :
Drivers affecting strategic configuration of global supply chain: A literature review and a research agenda
Author :
Guang Song ; Mangiaracina, Riccardo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Econ., Manage. & Ind. Eng., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
Abstract :
This research aims to identify the main drivers affecting the global supply chain design on the basis of literature research. 29 drivers, classified into five categories, were collected from 30 papers published since 1974, and the effects of each driver on different operational processes of supply chain system were analyzed. In addition, the potential research directions on the basis of identified drivers were proposed.
Keywords :
strategic planning; supply chain management; global supply chain design; strategic configuration; Companies; Economics; Manufacturing; Reliability; Supply chains; Vehicles; global supply chain; influencing factors; location decision; strategic configuration;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (SOLI), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dongguan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0529-4
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2013.6611460
