Abstract
Supply chain management principles have emerged in the last decade as a strategic option to meet new challenges in global business environment. Viewing business environment as part of a chain, starting from raw material suppliers to end customers passing by producers, is at the heart of supply-chain management. Many management principles have emerged for better planning and controlling this chain to the benefit of all parties involved. This paper explores the implications of supply-chain management principles on higher education. First, a supply-chain view of higher education is described and its environment is analysed for the possibility of adopting supply-chain principles. Features that might be catalysts or hurdles towards these principles are identified. Second, a framework for supply-chain coordination and integration in higher education that takes into consideration these features are developed. Finally, existing practices that address supply-chain in higher education are identified and some new practices representing a natural extension of supply-chain management practices are suggested. A potential case study for implementing these concepts is presented.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 211-219 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | European Journal of Engineering Education |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - May 2008 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors wish to acknowledge the support provided by the King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran Saudi Arabia.
Keywords
- Higher education
- Stakeholders integration
- Supply chain management
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- General Engineering