Exploring Supply Chain Relationships and Information Exchange in UK Grocery Supply Chains: Some Preliminary Findings

Abstract

Despite the concept of supply chain management having existed since the early 1980s (Oliver and Webber, 1982; Houlihan, 1984, 1985), there is still significant confusion as to the meaning of the concept and particularly as to how to implement it (Kearney, 1994; Neuman and Samuels, 1996). Such confusion is further enhanced by the multitude of terminology and definitions (New, 1996; McGuffog, 1997) arising from the academic and practitioner literature.