期刊名称:Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management
印刷版ISSN:1984-3046
出版年度:2012
卷号:5
期号:1
页码:16-30
DOI:10.12660/joscmv5n1p16-30
语种:English
出版社:FGV-EAESP
摘要:The research objective is verifying the strategic alignment of supply practices between automakers and suppliers in the Brazilian automotive supply chains. It makes an exploratory-descriptive study of objectives, using quantitative/qualitative procedures and inductive reasoning. The concept used for analyzing the alignment of practices was based on Vachon et al. (2009). The main conclusion of this study is that suppliers and automakers seem to align their supply strategy, giving support to a desirable situation of single chain project. The subsidiary conclusion is the lack of relationship between intensity of the link and misalignment in these companies. The main contributions are the analysis of the relationship established in tiers that are the furthest removed from the focal companies; identification of practices that support the expansion of a new model of arrangements implemented by automakers in Brazil; and understanding of the processes that companies have adopted in order to manage their supply chains and the implications of these activities for the competitiveness of both the company and the supply chain as a whole.
关键词:Supply practices, supply chain alignment, Brazilian automotive industry