Authors : Guilherme Frederico and Thamires Trindade de Souza
Abstract: Researches focused on supply chains have gained relevance from 1990’s due to the opportunities of adding value to the companies through SCM-Supply Chain Management. The correct understanding of practices applied on this management is very important to obtain higher levels of performance in a supply chain. However is important having the correct understanding between practices and SCM maturity since that the adequate adoption of practices to each level of maturity can lead SCM to higher level of maturity and consequently higher level of performance in the supply chain. Thus, taking into consideration that there is a lack in terms of researches approaching this matter, this study will present the SCM practices which are aligned with SCM maturity dimensions. Aiming to achieve the purpose of this research as a first step a systematic literature review method was adopted in order to identify practices for SCM proposed in the literature. After that a correlation between these practices and SCM maturity was proposed. Future empirical researches are needed in order to get more evidences and validate the findings obtained on this first step of research.
Guilherme Frederico and Thamires Trindade de Souza, 2017. Alignment between Supply Chain Management Practices and Maturity: A Framework Proposal. International Business Management, 11: 807-813.