Design and Development of Migration Path for Supply Chain Integration for Manufacturing Industries.

There is a need to integrate the information systems and also organizational activities of the supply chain among the supply chain partners for collective and effective coordination. However, so far research in supply chain integration has paid little observation in identifying and developing a migration path to know the present position of integration among the supply chain members. Therefore the objective of the paper is to evolve a framework for supply chain integration. In the proposed research, the informational, organizational and information technology integration is operationalized for the evolution of Supply Chain Integration framework for manufacturing industries. Developed framework for supply chain integration is validated through a pilot study to help the organizations to know the present level and provides a migration path to move to the next level of supply chain integration. Present work builds on to the authors who have set forth study in the domain of supply chain integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]