The Measuring the collaborative supply chain performance: a literature review

Abstract

Inter-company competition explains the increased  interest of researchers towards supply chain management, which is seen as a better way of managing logistics activities and processes from upstream to downstream. In fact, supply chain management aims to offer a better overall performance of the chain and a better return for its members by increasing consumer satisfaction. In addition, collaboration in the supply chain creates a strategy-based value creation process that allows members of the chain to coordinate and  synchronize their efforts in order to optimize their activities and rationalize their resources. Hence, to reap the expected benefits of collaboration, there is a need for continuous assessment of collaborative practices in the supply chain. In this sense, the objective of this article is to raise the main models for assessing the performance of the supply chain and particularly the collaborative aspect. However, through the analysis of the literature we realized that, despite the focus of companies on collaboration, the number of research studies on this subject remains limited.