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Challenges and Opportunities in Global Supply Chain Integration

Since the inception of supply chain management, a primary objective has been the integration of the varied internal and external components (Langley & Holcomb, 1992; Cooper et al., 1997; Schmenner & Swink, 1998; Kahn & Mentzer, 1996; Lambert & Cooper, 2000; Min & Zhou, 2002). Due to the global span and impact of the supply chain, firms instinctively understood that the synchronized flow of materials and services, information, knowledge, and finance had the potential to produce desirable outcomes. Unfortunately, obtaining supply chain integration has been an elusive quest for many companies (Fawcett & Magnan, 2002). Unlike other endeavors that a firm undertakes, there is no blueprint for integration. To complicate matters, there are various existing definitions for supply chain integration (Narasimhan & Das, 2001; Pagell, 2004). Most commonly, this term ABSTRACT