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A knowledge chain management framework to support integrated decisions in global supply chains

Liu, Shaofeng, Moizer, Jonathan, Megicks, Phil, Kasturiratne, Dulekha and JAYAWICKRAMA, Uchitha (2014) A knowledge chain management framework to support integrated decisions in global supply chains. Production Planning & Control, 25 (8). pp. 639-649. ISSN 0953-7287

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Knowledge management has been identified as a key enabler to achieve organisation’s value chain competitiveness. It, however, has been facing fresh challenges in a global supply chain setting. This paper proposes a global knowledge chain management (GKCM) framework that identifies and prioritises critical knowledge that a global supply chain can focus on to support integrated decisions. The framework explores three types of global context knowledge, namely global market knowledge, global capacity knowledge and global supply network configuration knowledge. Empirical study has been undertaken within the manufacturing industry to evaluate the GKCM framework. Analytic network process has been explored as a key method to assess the importance of the global knowledge constructs from supply chain managers’ perspectives. A key contribution of the paper is that it advances existing knowledge chain management approaches within one organisation and its local supply chain to include the global context knowledge applicable to global manufacturing settings, and highlights how the GKCM framework can support global supply chain integrated decisions.

Item Type: Article
Faculty: Previous Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Sciences > Computing
Depositing User: Uchitha JAYAWICKRAMA
Date Deposited: 01 Aug 2016 13:53
Last Modified: 24 Feb 2023 13:43
URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/2371

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