Integrated Logistics and Supply Chain Management: the State of Practice in Ireland

Authors

Austin Smyth, Technological University Dublin
Bernd Huber, Technological University Dublin
Edward Sweeney, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

Business and Management.

Publication Details

Published: in Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Transport Research, University of California, Berkley, June 2007

Abstract

The Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were provided with aid to offset locational disadvantages in the run up to the Single European Market. Since then the Republic has emerged as the fastest growing member of the E.U. Success has not been underpinned by the transport system, suggesting that business has had to overcome locational disadvantages by strong performance elsewhere in the supply chain. The evidence indicates that there are Irish firms operating supply chain management techniques at a truly international standard. The problem is that there are so few in that category Meeting Ireland’s competitiveness challenge means closing the gap between the small group of large and foreign-owned firms, which display excellence in SCM, and the larger group of indigenous small and medium size businesses, which do not.

Recommended Citation

Smyth, A., Huber, B., Sweeney, E.: Integrated logistics and supply chain management: the state of practice in Ireland. Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Transport Research, University of California, Berkley, June, 2007.