From buyer to integrator: The transformation of the supply-chain manager in the vertically disintegrating firm

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Parker, GG; Anderson, EG Jr
• 署名单位: Tulane University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• 刊物名称: PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1059-1478
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 75-91
• 关键词: Supply chains; new product development; integration; Outsourcing; organization design

摘要

Using case study data, we describe how a large personal computer manufacturer changed its supply-chain management strategy after outsourcing the majority of its design and manufacturing activities to a network of focused suppliers. To cope with this new structure, the firm created highly skilled generalists, supply-chain integrators, who coordinate product development, marketing, production, and logistics from product concept to delivery across firm boundaries. We particularly focus on the skill-set that characterizes these integrators. Finally, we use the case evidence, combined with previous theory, to suggest a specific program of research into coordinating product development across disaggregated supply chains.