Abstract
Supply chain management (SCM) utilizes lean, agile and hybrid (leagile) supply chain models to stimulate consequences of increased globalization and behavioral changes of information rich consumers. Although SCM conceptually inherits a holistic view, firm level analysis occupies the majority of research. This research work attempts to uncover a new approach for SCM, exploring leanness and agility of value networks. Through a case study of six different global apparel value networks, the research provides important insights to SCM. While providing evidence that SCM is more accurately measured in the value network level, results reveal that different value networks focus on different areas of SCM. Further, owing to lean-agile characteristics of value networks, they develop unique capabilities in SCM. The paper proposes and tests a framework with lean-agile filtration for customer segmentation in a B2B context.
