Analysis of Flexibility and Supply Chain Management in Selelct Indian Industries

This paper presents a framework to assess the performance and lend of flexibility of supply chain management in an organization. A concept of Supply Chain Index and the Flexibility Index have been introduced in the framework and adopted to carry out this study on the Indian industries. A field study was carried out to understand the importance of different variables used to assess the supply-chain performance of organizations. The results revealed that majority of the factors affecting supply chain management, are associated with the information sharing across the internal and external stakeholders. This establishes the fact that high importance should be given to collaborative set up in order to enhance the efficiency of supply chain in different industry segments. Web offers a unique opportunity to achieve this as it is the cheapest and the most flexible media for collaboration, and therefore, is an apt choice to facilitate the collaborative network.