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Coordination modalities as vehicles for successful learning supply chain partnerships

Effective supply chain management requires the creation of synergistic relationships between the supply and distribution companies with the objective of maximizing profitability and customer satisfaction. It has the purpose to leverage skills and capabilities of member companies, besides achieving individual gains in efficiency, especially cost savings. Castells (2000) has argued that the new economy is fundamentally distinct from the traditional business making due to its superiority gained through the effective use of information (knowledge), global concepts (organized on a global scale), and networks among economic agents (interaction among business networks). However, it is the relationships and established knowledge networks that are truly valuable not only because they ensure knowledge availability, but because they propel continuous learning (Scherer, 2000). Learning supply chain partnerships nourish the learning orientation by continuously discovering learning opportunities across the integrated supply chain. The aim of this study is to identify a framework of coordination modalities required for integrating processes within a learning supply chain partnership in order to develop and sustain its learning orientation. For that purpose four learning partnership coordination modalities have been identified: partnership knowledge management, partnership organizational learning, learning partnership culture and transformational leadership.

Learning supply chain partnerships; coordination modalities; organizational learning

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