文档介绍：The current orthodoxy in supply chain
Power, value and thinking
supply chain What is the current orthodoxy in supply chain
management management thinking? In very general terms
it can be described as (Cox, 1997a):
Andrew Cox . . . a way of thinking that is devoted to
discovering tools and techniques that provide for
increased operational effectiveness and efficiency
throughout the delivery channels that must be
created internally and externally to support and
supply existing corporate product and service
offerings to customers.
This way of thinking has its lineage in the
work that was originally undertaken to un-
derstand the phenomenal ess of Japanese
The author industry in the 1970s and 1980s, primarily in
the automotive sector (Womack et al., 1990).
Andrew Cox is Professor of Business Strategy and
Indeed, it can be argued that a great deal of
Procurement at Birmingham Business School, University
supply chain management practice today
of Birmingham, Birmingham, England.
appears to be nothing more than an attempt
to replicate, in a variety of product and service
Keywords
supply chains, the approach to external
Supply chain, Value chain, Supply chain management, resource management originally pioneered by
Channel relations Toyota. This approach (often referred to as
``lean thinking'') is based on attempts to
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