Postgraduate level- Managerial Report- Global Supply Chain Management

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Postgraduate level- Managerial Report- Global Supply Chain Management
Please, read all attached material carefully, show evidenced of deep research and understanding and cove all Learning Outcomes.

Note: Reading material, power point slides slide (very important file names from S.0 TO S6 uploaded) and Lecture Topic are (attached) below but only as starting point. So, Please use reliable sources and kindly expand more in both academic and practical sources (including Journals) to support your critique – give evidence and use multiple sources

The task is maximum of 2000 word excluding references and appendix
Managerial Report Format not an essay
Q/ Provide a critical analysis of HOW and WHY successful global supply chain management practices may impact on an organisation’s overall performance.
You will need to consider how you define:
Overall performance
‘How’
‘Why’
Successful GSCM practices
NOT necessarily in that order!
You should use both academic and practical sources to support your critique – give evidence and use multiple sources, not just single sources. You may use appendices.

Omega 34 (2006) 107 – 124
www.elsevier.com/locate/omega
The impact of supplychain management practices on competitive
advantage and organizational performance
Suhong Lia,*, Bhanu Ragu-Nathanb, T.S. Ragu-Nathanb, S. Subba Raob
aComputer Information Systems Department, Bryant University, 1150 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, RI 02917-1284, USA
bCollege of Business Administration, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA
Received 20 March 2004; accepted 16 August 2004
Available online 29 September 2004
Abstract
Effective supplychain management (SCM) has become a potentiallyv aluable wayof securing competitive advantage and
improving organizational performance since competition is no longer between organizations, but among supplychains. This
research conceptualizes and develops five dimensions of SCM practice (strategic supplier partnership, customer relationship,
level of information sharing, qualityof information sharing, and postponement) and tests the relationships between SCM
practices, competitive advantage, and organizational performance. Data for the studywere collected from 196 organizations
and the relationships proposed in the framework were tested using structural equation modeling. The results indicate that
higher levels of SCM practice can lead to enhanced competitive advantage and improved organizational performance. Also,
competitive advantage can have a direct, positive impact on organizational performance.
2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Supplychain management; Competitive advantage; Organizational performance; Structural equation modeling
1. Introduction
As competition in the 1990s intensified and markets became
global, so did the challenges associated with getting
a product and service to the right place at the right time
at the lowest cost. Organizations began to realize that it is
not enough to improve efficiencies within an organization,
but their whole supplychain has to be made competitive.
The understanding and practicing of supplychain management
(SCM) has become an essential prerequisite for staying
competitive in the global race and for enhancing profitably
[1–4].
Council of Logistics Management (CLM) [5] defines
SCM as the systemic, strategic coordination of the
* Corresponding author. Tel.: +1-401-232-6503; fax: +1-401-
232-6435.
E-mail address: sli@bryant.edu (S. Li).
0305-0483/$ – see front matter 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
doi:10.1016/j.omega.2004.08.002
traditional business functions and tactics across these businesses
functions within a particular organization and across
businesses within the supplychain for the purposes of improving
the long-term performance of the individual organizations
and the supplychain as a whole. SCM has been
defined to explicitlyrecognize the strategic nature of coordination
between trading partners and to explain the dual
purpose of SCM: to improve the performance of an individual
organization, and to improve the performance of the
whole supplychain. The goal of SCM is to integrate both
information and material flows seamlesslyacross the supply
chain as an effective competitive weapon [1,6].
The concept of SCM has received increasing attention
from academicians, consultants, and business managers
alike [4,6–8]. Manyor ganizations have begun to recognize
that SCM is the keyto building sustainable competitive edge
for their products and/or services in an increasinglycro wded
marketplace [9]. The concept of SCM has been considered