Journal of Management Information Systems
The impact of information systems on organizations and markets
Communications of the ACM
Journal of Management Information Systems
The flexibility of production processes: a general framework
Management Science
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Multivariate data analysis (4th ed.): with readings
Does information technology lead to smaller firms?
Management Science
Electronic markets and electronic hierarchies
Communications of the ACM
The impact of information technology on coordination costs: implications for firm productivity
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
The intangible benefits and costs of investments: evidence from financial markets
ICIS '97 Proceedings of the eighteenth international conference on Information systems
The Business Value of Computers: An Executive's Guide
The Business Value of Computers: An Executive's Guide
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
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This chapter describes an empirical analysis of the mediating effects of supply chain coordination strategy and manufacturing IT infrastructure on the relationship between business complexity and inventory turnover. Business complexity describes the diversity and volatility associated with a firm's product markets. To cope with this complexity, firms deploy inventory buffers. This deployment should decrease inventory turnover. An extensive manufacturing IT infrastructure can increase a firm's "sense and respond" capability, reducing the need for buffers, and can thereby improve inventory turnover. As this technology enables enhanced coordination, and as firms' efforts to reduce buffers within their own organizational boundaries earn diminishing marginal returns, firms attempt to optimize performance across organizational boundaries within the supply chain, i.e., adopt a cooperative supply chain coordination strategy. This supply chain coordination should improve inventory turnover.