The relationship between interorganizational information systems and operations performance

Despite extensive research and practitioner literature on inter-organizational information systems (IOIS), our understanding of non-adoption still has some under-explored issues. This paper offers an explanation of non-adoption that focuses on the potential structural changes that IOIS adoption entails; in particular, we contend that the contradictions between the initial social structure and the structure enacted in the use of an IOIS can be a cause of non-adoption. This paper analyses adoption from a logic of opposition where non-adoption occurs because forces of transformation are offset by forces of persistence. Relying on the concepts of social structure, duality of structure, and structural contradiction from Structuration theory, we develop a framework that categorizes the underlying social structure where an IOIS is to be adopted, and formulate some theoretical propositions. From a practitioner perspective, this paper contends that the fact that IOIS management uncovers the contradictions in the social structure that result from IOIS adoption can help avoid dead ends. Accordingly, this framework, which can be used as a coarse-grained picture for anticipating adoption problems, can inform managers when devising an IOIS implementation strategy.

Kenya government, in collaboration with other stakeholders involved in enhancing teaching and research in the learning institutions have constructed a terrestrial fiber-optic network that connects most institutions of higher learning to enable them integrate their facilities for the purpose of sharing resources. Despite these efforts, adoption of Inter-Organization Information Systems (IOIS) by universities inKenyais far from being realized. This creates the need of finding out the relationship between the IOIS technological factors and the IOIS adoption. This study filled this gap by analyzing IOIS technological determinants of IOIS adopting in the universities in Kenya, given the mixed results from empirical evidence on IOIS adoption generally. A logit regression procedure was used to analyze the collected data. Two factors were found to hinder the IOIS adoption, while one factor was found to motivate IOIS adoption.

Facilitating conditions for successful adoption of inter-organizational information systems in seaports

Supply chain digitalization: An integrated MCDM approach for inter-organizational information systems selection in an electronic supply chain

As corporations rely on collaborations with partners to enhance their competiveness, they use interorganizational information systems (IOIS) as a powerful tool to link with their partners in the supply chain. The purpose of this study is to measure IOIS performance in the supply chain. The proposed framework considers both internal and external organisational perspectives and is based on the balanced scorecard. This study also uses experts’ pairwise comparisons in the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process approach to consider the relative weight or importance of diverse indicators of the framework. Then, this study applies the proposed framework to the Taiwanese information technology industry. The results provide references for managers and future researches when assessing IOIS performance in the supply chain. The proposed model can serve as a useful instrument for helping managers to better understand the main facets of IOIS performance, to be more capable of prioritising improvement projects, and to adopt the right solutions to enhance overall performance.

PT.X is a company engaged in lubricant manufacturing. Based on the results of field studies, several risks hinder the company's supply chain process, and PT.X has never conducted a risk assessment. Therefore, risk analysis and mitigation are needed to minimize the risks that arise in the company's supply chain. This research uses the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model to map the company's supply chain activities and the House of Risk (HOR) method to identify risks in the supply chain, including risk events, risk agents, and their correlations. The results reveal a total of 32 risk events and 26 risk agents. Then, a Pareto diagram calculation is conducted, identifying 3 priority risk agents that need to be addressed: supplier inability to provide raw materials, lack of work supervision, and inadequate workforce competence. From these 3 priority risk agents, 8 risk mitigation measures have been determined: evaluating supplier performance, establishing contracts with suppliers, planning alternative supplier selection, conducting periodic supervision, establishing company standard operating procedures, providing skills training and work discipline, recruiting workers more selectively and rigorously, and placing workers according to their expertise.

This study analyzes the performance of a company's supply chain as measured by an approach using the SCOR method or the Supply Chain Operations Reference. SCOR is divided into 5 basic supply chain management processes, namely plan, source, make, deliver and return. Due to schedule delays of 3%, it is affected by the late delivery of raw materials ordered from suppliers and the quality of raw materials is below standard. Performing a performance measurement approach is also supported by the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method to determine the weight of each performance indicator and is calculated using the Expert Choice v11 program in this study. The purpose of this study was to determine how much value the PT Adhi Commuter Properti supply chain performance and what performance indicators should be improved. The results of the study resulted in a 75.444 overall supply chain performance achievement score of the GOOD category in achieving total company performance appraisal and priority improvement recommendations of 4 performance indicators that are expected to help improve the company's supply chain performance, namely the fulfillment of raw materials, structures, defective products and demand that the company can fulfill.

In light of the information revolution, this study aims to clarify the impact of artificial intelligence and supply chain resilience on the supply chain performance of engineering, electrical, and information technology companies registered with the Jordan Chamber of Industry. This study expands knowledge by exploring the relationships between artificial intelligence and the moderating supply chain dynamism. This study looks at artificial intelligence as an important resource, in addition to resilience supply chains, an important resource in raising the supply chain performance for companies. The questionnaire was conducted via e-mail and the study sample included (208) companies registered with the Jordanian Chamber of Industry and Commerce. The data was analyzed using the smart (Pls) software and its direct link with artificial intelligence and supply chain resilience. In addition, the analysis shows that there is a direct relationship between the mediating variables supply chain dynamism and supply chain resilience and supply chain performance. These results provide an insight into the relationship between artificial intelligence and supply chains, and the Moderating variable on the performance of a company's supply chains, which may be an entry point for companies to enhance their performance due to the importance of this sector to the Jordanian economy.KeywordsArtificial intelligenceSupply chain ResilienceSupply chain performanceSupply chain dynamismEngineering electricalInformation technologyJordan

This research was conducted in a case study of a rubber processing factory involving several parts, namely gardens, processing plants, and final processing. In the last 2 years, the company has started with the implementation of green supply chain management program included the waste treatment system and recycle of solid and liquid waste. Therefore it was necessary to evaluate and measure the performance of the green supply chain to find out how well the performance of the company's supply chain. The purpose of this study was to measure the performance of the green supply chain in the processing of Ribbed Smoke Sheet (RSS) by using the application of Green Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) method. This study employed the model Green Supply Chain Operations Reference (Green SCOR) and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) method. Data collection was reached through interview and questionnaire techniques to the experts. The Green SCOR model was implemented to design business processes and measure performance using the Key Performance Indicator (KPI). The AHP method was required to reach weight and rank to each indicators used in this study. This study employed 24 KPIs to measure the performance of the company's supply chain. Performance value of green supply chain in the company has a value of 72.03% which was classified into good level. Another low score indicators was used as a basic to develop proposed recommendations for company’s green supply chain improvement program

Management Summary: With widespread coverage in the media, at conferences and in numerous articles in economy magazines, Supply Chain Finance (SCF) has become one of the hottest topics in business administration. SCF is not a recent concept. It has long been known as a significant part at the intersection of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and trade finance. What has changed during recent years is the decision of numerous companies to convert the approach and its opportunities into deliverable benefits. The rules of the game in trade finance have changed. With the latest credit crisis, companies see their supply chains threatened by a lack of liquidity. This cash dry-up makes corporates look to more tangible sources of financing their businesses. Financial institutions are increasingly responding to corporate demands to increase efficiency in their financial supply chains. With competition no longer among individual companies but among entire supply chains, every area of end-to-end cost reduction is being explored. Therefore, SCF solutions could help leading companies make their whole supply chain more competitive. Recent research seems to confirm that the credit crunch is driving the adoption of SCF. Both banks and corporates are keener than ever to make their scarce capital stretch as far as possible. The global economic crisis has resulted in reactions that are fueling the widespread adoption of SCF. The credit crunch is making buyers and suppliers deplete their cash positions. Whereas suppliers are trying to encourage their customers to pay earlier, buyers are increasing their payment terms. In an attempt to cope with these problems and fully utilize the value creation potential of a company's supply chain, SCF promises rewards. By taking a more holistic view of flows of trade, this approach focuses on collaboration between trading partners as well as the increased transparency, automation and dematerialization of the entire supply chain, thereby reducing overall costs and risks for all affiliated parties. SCF promises to enhance enterprise value because it decreases tied-up working capital and enables higher capital efficiency. Because of the novelty of SCF, there are still many research gaps. On the one hand, the lack of research leads to hesitation about the implementation of SCF solutions within companies because there is little quantified evidence about achievable cost savings and other potential benefits. On the other hand, there is very little information about the market potential for SCF solutions. This study aims at providing orientation within this new topic by investigating the need and nature as well as characteristics and enablers of SCF. Based on an exemplary SCF model, the worldwide market size for such solutions and potential cost savings to companies engaging in this area are analyzed and calculated. These underline the generally stated attractiveness of SCF solutions by creating win-win situations; for the affiliated actors in the end-to-end supply chain as well as for external service providers.

This paper has a conceptual character and explores an approach between transaction cost analysis theory and network theory when applied to supply chains in a broader context: industrial management research. This approach raises the assumptions that fast supply chains, i.e., supply chains made of short time relationships and multiple partners can contribute to destroying trust and collaboration between companies, ending up by stressing actual systems’ arrangements in somehow stable supply chains/network chains. As a consequence, transforming them in distrust arrangements and thus giving birth to new (old) approaches based only on transaction cost analysis theory: opportunism and limited rationality as the continuum for relationships between companies in a globalized world with numerous potential agents/companies that can play several roles. Too high levels of entropy can show this reality: the number of potential players (suppliers, customers or complementors) with theoretically equal probability of establishing partnerships with one focal company in a supply chain or network arrangement is excessive in relation to the number of current suppliers, customers and complementors, and for that reason, the focal company is somehow dissipating energy in identifying several potential players and in a state of giving one way or another equal importance to them all, situation that can affect stable relations with current partners. Theoretically, this will create what looks like strategic fast supply—demand chains or network chains: fast because they are rapidly settle down and fast as they are also rapidly dismantled. Those arrangements are the ones responsible for several possible and fast relations (internalizing resources from the environment and/or externalizing resources to the environment) but, anyway, contributing to loose trust, credibility and running against profitable games with partners already involved with focal companies in stable supply chains.

Supply chain management, is the active management of supply chain activities to maximise customer value and achieve sustainable competitive advantage. It represents a conscious effort by the supply chain firms to develop and run supply chains in the most effective and efficient ways possible. Supply chain activities cover everything from product development, sourcing, production, and logistics, as well as the information systems needed to coordinate these activities. Currently, supply chain management has evolved into a complex system where there is a need for redesign and integration into the corporate strategy for strategic fit. The study focuses on: • establishing and analysing corporate strategies used by select FMCGs in KZN South Africa; • examining the challenges impacting on achieving competitive advantage; and • determining performance measures for ensuring consistency between customer satisfaction and the supply chain capabilities (strategic fit). The study followed an exploratory case study design and employed a descriptive, evaluative quantitative analysis method. The results showed that across supply chain companies, the ultimate goal of integration has still to be achieved. There is a lack of trust and companies operate in separate silos. A major recommendation is that supply companies should revisit their supply chain designs to synchronise with intra-intercompany integration built on achieving competitiveness and sustainable profitability through incremental continuous improvement and customer satisfaction. The study concluded that it is imperative that all the elements of McKinsey’s 7- s resource capability model stay interconnected as a web to ensure the successful implementation of integration for strategic fit and superior business performance

When a company's supply chain has achieved a desirable degree of eco-friendliness in all regards, from a sustainability perspective, its performance will be satisfactory. Since the closed-loop e-waste supply chain's operations are primarily focused on achieving sustainability objectives related to the manufacturing, distribution, reusing, and discarding electrical components, it is crucial to evaluate its success in this area. In order to monitor the performance of supply chains and enhance the processes, the supply chain operations reference model offers suggestions and benchmarking tools. In this study, a conceptual framework is illustrated to show how these standards could be used in the E-waste supply chain to link business processes, metrics, industry standards, and technology in order to enhance the relationship and coordination between the supply chain members and to increase sustainability throughout the supply chain. Insufficient attention so far has been paid to the SCOR model's sustainability criteria, according to an assessment of the literature. Consequently, in the wake of portraying the structure of Supply Chain Operation Reference model, we make sense of which credits should be included in Supply Chain Operation Reference so to reflect manageability and which cycles and practices are related with every standard or should be remembered for Supply Chain Operation Reference to lay out the connection between execution, cycles, and practices.

The utilization of glass eel (eel seeds) in the Cimandiri River Palabuhanratu has a very important role to support the supply chain for the eel culture industry. The purpose of this study was to estimate the amount of glass eel catch, describe the glass eel eel supply chain system, and measure the performance of the supply chain in eel culture. The research method uses quantitative methods through direct observation and interviews, as well as case studies of supply chain actors. The results showed that the highest catch of glass eel in 2019 was in June at an average of 14,859 grams (14.9 kg). The highest catch of glass eel occurred in the dry season (June - August), with a total catch of 21,884 grams (21.8 kg). The glass eel supply chain mechanism consists of supply chain flow pattern on the product flow, a good and transparent flow of information on each link, and the distribution of two payment systems, namely cash and credit payments. The supply chain performance in the eel culture industry obtained a performance value of 82.63 which indicates that the achievement of the company's supply chain performance is in the good category, and improvements need to be made especially on the deliver process performance indicators with a value of 2.70.
 Keywords: : glass eel, supply chain, eel, Cimandiri River

This paper illustrates a new diamond shape architecture based on multi agents for supply chain in an uncertain environment. There are many situations in which a convincing answer to a query cannot be found in the supply chain of a company such as disruptions or sanctions, etc. Thus there is a need of connection between different supply chains of different companies in a particular industry. The proposed architecture addresses a Meta information agent as the core of the architecture in order to connect information agents of various supply chains in a same industry and keep information flowing through them. The brokering method has been used to establish this connection. Fuzzy query approach is considered to tackle uncertainty problems. The results show that our proposed approach is more reliable than other architectures and can increase the flexibility and responsiveness of a supply chain.