Flexible business strategies to enhance resilience in manufacturing supply chains: An empirical study
Flexible business strategies to enhance resilience in manufacturing supply chains: An empirical study
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jmsy.2020.10.010
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发表时间：
2021-08-26
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12.1
通讯作者：
Rajesh, R.
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作者：
Rajesh, R.
在当前COVID-19疫情的危机形势下，制造业和供应链的复原力和灵活性受到广泛讨论。这是一个从业人员正在辩论的问题，即灵活性和复杂性在建立公司及其供应链的复原力方面的作用。在这项研究中，我们研究了供应链的需求，供应和流程方面的灵活业务策略，这些策略有助于提高弹性。本研究确认了五种主要的灵活经营战略，并提出了构建这些战略的单一项目。在这项研究中，我们观察的相关性结构的基础上，调查为基础的研究，在电子制造企业，其次是降维的结构，使用因子分析。收集到的数据经过了几次初步测试，以确保使用相关统计指标的有效性、可靠性和充分性。将测量模型转换为结构模型，并确定通径系数。从路径分析，潜变量有助于供应链的灵活性被发现是独立的弹性估计。除此之外，我们还观察到，用于衡量供应、流程、产品和定价策略灵活性的单个项目被证明是密切相关的。结果是有用的管理人员采取有关的灵活性实施的决策，以提高供应链的弹性。
Resilience and flexibility in manufacturing and supply chains are widely discussed at times of the present crises situation due to COVID-19 pandemic. It is a question of ongoing debate among practitioners about the role of flexibility and complexity in building resilience for firms and their supply chains. In this research, we examine the flexible business strategies at the demand, supply, and process side of supply chains contributing to resilience. Five of the major flexible business strategies were acknowledged in this research and the single items for constructing them were posited. In this study, we observe the correlations among the constructs based on surveybased research in electronics manufacturing firms, followed by a dimensionality reduction of constructs using factor analysis. The data collected were subject to several initial tests for ensuring validity, reliability, and adequacy using relevant statistical indicators. The measurement model was converted into a structural model and path coefficients were determined. From the path analysis, the latent variables contributing to flexibility in supply chains were found to be independent estimators of resilience. Adding to it, we observe that the single items for measuring the flexibility of supply, process, product, and pricing strategies were evidenced to be strongly correlated. The results are useful to managers for taking decisions related to flexibility implementation, towards enhancing resilience in supply chains.