Supply chain management: Some Reflections to Improve its Influence in Business Strategy

• Carlos Raúl Arredondo ^[1] ; José Antonio Alfaro Tanco ^[2]
  1. [1] Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

     Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Universidad de Navarra

     Universidad de Navarra

     Pamplona, España

     
• Localización: Innovar: revista de ciencias administrativas y sociales, ISSN 0121-5051, Vol. 31, Nº 81 (julio-septiembre), 2021, págs. 7-19
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.15446/innovar.v31n81.95568
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Supply Chain Management:: algunas reflexiones para mejorar su influencia sobre la estrategia empresarial
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    El supply chain management (SCM) es una disciplina reciente del management que puede ser abordada desde múltiples perspectivas. Sin embargo, solo un enfoque estratégico del SCM, resultado de decisiones tácticas y su correcta implementación, permitirá alcanzar los beneficios que este modelo promete. Así, con el objetivo de determinar el alcance del SCM, surge el interés de estudiar la evolución de esta disciplina desde sus inicios como parte de la gestión de operaciones (GO) hasta su consolidación como campo independiente. Para ello, analizamos documentos en los que se ha discutido la agenda de investigación de la GO y el SCM desde sus orígenes hasta nuestros días, con lo cual se espera mostrar su evolución como disciplina de gran relevancia dentro del campo de la GO. Este trabajo enfatiza la naturaleza estratégica del SCM y la importancia de considerarlo de esta manera. Además, se argumenta que resulta limitado pensar directamente en la logística como el foco principal del SCM, puesto que esta visión crea un sesgo que restringe su verdadero alcance. Para que una visión estratégica de este enfoque sea implementada correctamente, resulta fundamental definir el rol y el perfil del gerente de SCM.

  • English

    Supply Chain Managment (SCM) is a nearly new discipline of management that can be seen in different ways. However, only a strategic approach of SCM that leads to subsequent tactical decisions and operational implementation will provide the benefits that SCM promises. A presentation of the evolution of SCM from its beginnings as part of Operations Management (OM) to an independent field in management has the objective of determining its correct scope. Therefore, this work examined papers where the research agenda of both OM and SCM -from the beginnings of these disciplines to these days- has been discussed, in order to show the evolution of SCM as a field of high relevance in OM. The strategic nature of SCM and the importance of considering this discipline in such a way is emphasized, arguing that is a narrow view thinking of SCM as directly related to logistics as its main focus, since this logistic vision creates a bias that limits the real scope of SCM. In order for this strategic vision of SCM to be correctly implemented, it is crucial to know both how the role and the profile of SC managers should be.

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