Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com

Abstract Due to the fact that supply chain collaboration (SCC) can achieve synergies and superior performance, it has become the trend of supply chain development and the goal for many companies. Especially, in the last 30 years, e-commerce has grown in popularity, its supply chain also tends to...

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Main Author: Zhu, Yilin
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2016
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36438/
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description Abstract Due to the fact that supply chain collaboration (SCC) can achieve synergies and superior performance, it has become the trend of supply chain development and the goal for many companies. Especially, in the last 30 years, e-commerce has grown in popularity, its supply chain also tends to collaboration. Hence, the purpose of this dissertation is to analyze JD.com, the biggest direct sales e-commerce company in China, as a case study to research its supply chain collaboration condition and supplier management. There are six chapters to introduce and illustrate the supply chain collaboration of JD.com. This case will focus on what is JD.com operation model and its collaboration model? How does JD.com collaborate with their main and minor suppliers? Through collaborating, what benefits did JD.com and collaborating suppliers gain? What can we learn from JD.com SSC and supplier development? This paper concludes that there exist some issues in JD.com’s current supply chain collaboration and that SCC is not widely applied. Actually, all those existing problems are resulted from the immature development of e-commerce in China. Thereby, together with some knowledge background in literature review, we are offering some suggestions with regards to the current condition of JD.com to help them improve. Key words: supply chain collaboration; e-commerce; suppliers collaboration; information sharing; JD.com
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spelling nottingham-364382017-10-19T16:58:00Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36438/ Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com Zhu, Yilin Abstract Due to the fact that supply chain collaboration (SCC) can achieve synergies and superior performance, it has become the trend of supply chain development and the goal for many companies. Especially, in the last 30 years, e-commerce has grown in popularity, its supply chain also tends to collaboration. Hence, the purpose of this dissertation is to analyze JD.com, the biggest direct sales e-commerce company in China, as a case study to research its supply chain collaboration condition and supplier management. There are six chapters to introduce and illustrate the supply chain collaboration of JD.com. This case will focus on what is JD.com operation model and its collaboration model? How does JD.com collaborate with their main and minor suppliers? Through collaborating, what benefits did JD.com and collaborating suppliers gain? What can we learn from JD.com SSC and supplier development? This paper concludes that there exist some issues in JD.com’s current supply chain collaboration and that SCC is not widely applied. Actually, all those existing problems are resulted from the immature development of e-commerce in China. Thereby, together with some knowledge background in literature review, we are offering some suggestions with regards to the current condition of JD.com to help them improve. Key words: supply chain collaboration; e-commerce; suppliers collaboration; information sharing; JD.com 2016-09-09 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36438/1/SCC%20In%20JD.com--Zhu%20YL.pdf Zhu, Yilin (2016) Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
spellingShingle Zhu, Yilin
Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title_full Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title_fullStr Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title_full_unstemmed Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title_short Supply Chain Collaboration and Supplier Development in Chinese E-commerce Industry: a case study of JD.com
title_sort supply chain collaboration and supplier development in chinese e-commerce industry: a case study of jd.com
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/36438/