Concerns with Supply Chain Management: Recent Developments and Future Prospects

Abstract

Lambert and Cooper laid forth a framework for Supply Chain Management (SCM), discussed potential implementation challenges, and suggested avenues for further study in their 2000 paper "Issues in Supply Chain Management" published in Industrial Marketing Management. An innovative approach to supplier and customer relationship management was proposed by the eight cross-functional, cross- firm business processes that made up the framework. Research by a group of academics and executives from non-competing companies who had been meeting frequently since 1992 to improve SCM theory and practice formed the basis of it. The study has now spanned 25 years since it has persisted for the last 16 years. This article identifies areas for further study and reviews the development and execution of the proposed SCM framework since 2000.