What is Happening in Supply Chain Management? From Push to Pull through Best Value Thinking

What is Happening in Supply Chain Management? From Push to Pull through Best Value Thinking

By Sicco Santema

January 2011

Abstract
In this paper we take a closer look at developments in supply management. The main change in this discipline seems to be (2011) that cooperation and risk management are taking over the classical silo based way of looking at business. Companies start to learn that transactions block the profits throughout the chain. Or, to put it the other way around, supply chain parties learn that sharing interests is earning much more money and that supply chains become ‘faster, cheaper and better’!

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