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Electronic Integration of Supply Chain Operations: Context, Evolution and Practices

In: Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management

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  • Aristides Matopoulos
  • Maro Viachopoulou
  • Vicky Manthou

Abstract

Successful companies seem to be, nowadays, those that have carefully linked their internal processes to external suppliers and customers in unique supply chains (Frohlich and Westbrook 2001, Boyer, Frohlich and Hult 2004). In this effort towards linking internal processes to external suppliers and customers, the sharing of information among enterprises is absolutely critical. Electronic data interchange (EDI) in the past and the internet in the last decade have enabled supply chain partners to act upon the same data (Christopher 2005). This reality explains much of companies’ initial enthusiasm regarding the introduction of the internet and internet-based application in the early 1990s. Companies’ ultimate goal of process integration across the entire supply chain was now much more feasible than ever before.

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  • Aristides Matopoulos & Maro Viachopoulou & Vicky Manthou, 2009. "Electronic Integration of Supply Chain Operations: Context, Evolution and Practices," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ashish Dwivedi & Tim Butcher (ed.), Supply Chain Management and Knowledge Management, chapter 12, pages 217-231, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-23495-6_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230234956_12
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