A study on establishing a strategy of supply chain management: focusing on Korean automobile industry

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present a new strategic framework of Supply Chain Management (SCM) in the automobile industry. For our purpose, we first had studied about the structure of relationship between supplier and buyer in Korean automobile industry. With this study, we searched for factors which compose a strategy of SCM, and whether or not the companies’ performance that are influenced by specific SCM strategy factors. Of course, our study based on existing researches, especially Cox et al.(1995) and Venkatraman et al.(1992), but the existing researches is differentiated in this paper that is treated several power factors as resource, value, environment and relation. So, results of our paper are what a good strategy of SCM composed by these factors and how to adopt this strategy on global logistics. And our methodology has some using of statistics method by SPSS 14(v) such as factor analysis, reliability analysis, and SEM(Structural Equation Model) with AMOS.