Supply Chain Management: A framework to characterize the Collaborative Strategies
Résumé
Intense competition forces enterprises to pay attention to supply chain collaboration with their upstream and downstream partners. Different collaboration strategies such as Quick Response (QR), Efficient Consumer Response (ECR), Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) or Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) have been proposed. The key to ensuring that the supply chain partners are progressing on the right track of creating the best-in-class practice lays on their ability to choose the appropriate strategy. This paper proposes a framework based on analysis grids and graphical representations that help better characterizing these strategies. The analysis grids use several characterization criteria to express the collaboration nature and its extent. For a better understanding, this framework is then applied to the CPFR strategy.