INTBUS 6 Lecture 7:
23 Oct 2020
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Managing internal supply chain integration: integration mechanisms and requirements. Internal supply chain integration (sci): integration within the firm"s own boundaries. Varying organizational contexts pose different needs for integration. Different integration requirements are also likely to drive organizations to use different integration mechanisms. Understanding the integration requirements and the means for actually accomplishing integration is critical. Integration: the quality of the state of collaboration that exists among organizational units. Achieved integration: when achieved integration is high, the organization works as a unified whole and is able to transfer, process, and exploit information across the organization. Integration mechanisms: facilitate the coordinated action across large numbers of interdependent roles: impersonal mechanisms rules, regulations, standards, personal mechanisms teams, integrator roles, direct contacts. The integration mechanisms need to support ( fit ) the integration requirements in order for integration to be achieved. Two complementary forces that drive integration requirements (if they are in place the firm needs to integrate cross-functionally: uncertainty.
