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Guiding organizations in the digital era: Tools and metrics for success Open

Italo Cesidio Fantozzi, Jan Olhager, Charlotta Johnsson, Massimiliano M. Schiraldi · 2025

This study develops a strategic framework to guide the adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies across various business sectors. Using a mixed-methods approach, the research combines an extensive literature review with empirical investigation…

Action research as a meta-methodology: insights from an operations development project Open

Jan Olhager · 2024

This research addresses action research (AR) as a meta-methodology and uses an operations development project as an illustration to provide some insights on AR as a meta-methodology. First, we report on a six-month action research (AR) pro…

Information sharing in extended supply chains: why does it have to be so difficult? Open

Joakim Kembro, Dag Näslund, Jan Olhager · 2024

Theory and practice present opposing views on whether or not companies should strive for multi-tier information sharing (MTIS) in supply chains. The purpose of this study was to identify and explore factors that influence MTIS. We performe…

The customer order decoupling point in empirical operations and supply chain management research: a systematic literature review and framework Open

Magnus Harfeldt-Berg, Jan Olhager · 2024

The customer order decoupling point (CODP) is the point in the supply chain where the product is linked to a customer order and is, by definition, the last stock point along the supply chain. The CODP decouples the upstream operations that…

A case survey of offshoring–backshoring cases: The influence of contingency factors Open

Malin Henkel, Albachiara Boffelli, Jan Olhager, Matteo Giacomo Maria Kalchschmidt · 2022

Supply chain visibility: A Delphi study on managerial perspectives and priorities Open

Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Ravi Kalaiarasan, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson · 2022

Visibility across supply chains has been a key concern for organisations for many years, but the tools and information systems to achieve real-time visibility have not been available until recently. In response to uncertainty and complexit…

Supply chain visibility for improving inbound logistics: a design science approach Open

Ravi Kalaiarasan, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge · 2022

Supply chain visibility (SCV) has been gaining recognition in recent years as a key factor for achieving analytical capabilities and improving supply chain performance. However, levels of SCV implementation lag behind current technological…

The ABCDE of supply chain visibility: A systematic literature review and framework Open

Ravi Kalaiarasan, Jan Olhager, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Magnus Wiktorsson · 2022

Supply chain visibility is a concept that is gaining increasing attention. Increasing levels of visibility in the supply chain is considered beneficial in many respects. A systematic literature review identified 47 empirical research paper…

Linking plant roles and operations strategy decision-making autonomy in international manufacturing networks Open

Jan Olhager, Andreas Feldmann · 2021

This paper is concerned with the management of multi-plant manufacturing networks. Two key concepts in this domain are plant roles and plant autonomy in the context of operations strategy decision-making. We investigate the relationship be…

Managing extended supply chains Open

Thomas Y. Choi, Sriram Narayanan, David C. Novak, Jan Olhager, Jiuh‐Biing Sheu , et al. · 2021

We address how to manage extended supply chains that lie beyond the first‐tier suppliers. The first‐tier suppliers have their suppliers who provide them with goods or services. While lower‐tier suppliers are often not an explicit concern o…

Requirements on Supply Chain Visibility: A Case on Inbound Logistics Open

Ravi Kalaiarasan, Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Magnus Wiktorsson, Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge, Jan Olhager · 2021

Understanding Supply Chain Visibility Through Experts’ Perspective: A Delphi Based Approach Open

Tarun Kumar Agrawal, Ravi Kalaiarasan, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson · 2021

Production Logistics Visibility – Perspectives, Principles and Prospects Open

Ravi Kalaiarasan, Jan Olhager, Magnus Wiktorsson, Yongkuk Jeong · 2020

Globalisation, competitive markets and increasing sustainability requirements are demanding companies to focus on visibility to improve their supply chains and ultimately their businesses. This paper aims to identify perspectives, principl…

Product architecture, global operations networks, and operational performance: an exploratory study Open

Sebastian Pashaei, Jan Olhager · 2019

This paper investigates the relationships between product architectures and global operations networks and their impact on operational performance, based on survey data from 82 Swedish manufacturers. We find that modular and integral produ…

A taxonomy of international manufacturing networks Open

Andreas Feldmann, Jan Olhager · 2019

Manufacturing firms with multiple product groups do not need to involve all factories in the production of all product groups. Some factories may specialize on a small set of products, while others participate in the manufacturing of a bro…

Hybrid manufacturing accounting in mixed process environments: A methodology and a case study Open

Andreas Myrelid, Jan Olhager · 2019

When manufacturing firms are deciding which products to produce, it is of utmost importance that they correctly allocate costs to products. It is common practice for manufacturers to use a single model for cost allocation and management ac…

Editorial: Passing the torch of Operations Management Research Open

Jan Olhager, Scott M. Shafer · 2018

Comparing offshoring and backshoring: The role of manufacturing site location factors and their impact on post-relocation performance Open

Malin Johansson, Jan Olhager · 2018

The global nature of businesses has increased the geographical dispersion of operations and has made the location decision an important strategic perspective for manufacturing firms. The consensus view is that three major plant location fa…

Offshoring versus backshoring: Empirically derived bundles of relocation drivers, and their relationship with benefits Open

Malin Johansson, Jan Olhager, Jussi Heikkilä, Jan Stentoft · 2018

This paper describes an empirically derived classification of the various factors that influence offshoring and backshoring decisions based on data from 275 offshoring and 160 backshoring projects. The study developed one set of factor bun…

Manufacturing relocation through offshoring and backshoring: the case of Sweden Open

Malin Johansson, Jan Olhager · 2017

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present recent empirical results concerning offshoring and backshoring of manufacturing from and to Sweden, to increase the understanding of manufacturing relocation in an international context. In p…

Information sharing across multiple supply chain tiers: A Delphi study on antecedents Open

Joakim Kembro, Dag Näslund, Jan Olhager · 2017

The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore antecedents associated with information sharing across multiple supply chain tiers. We conduct a Delphi study with 29 supply chain experts to collect qualitative and quantitative data, an…

Relocation of Nordic Manufacturing Open

Jussi Heikkilä, Jan Olhager, Miia Martinsuo, Teemu Laine, Petri Suomala , et al. · 2017

Manufacturing industries have had an important role in the export-driven economies of the Nordic countries. Manufacturing companies from these countries have increasingly been moving production abroad in recent years. However, backshoring …

Supply chain evolution – theory, concepts and science Open

Bart L. MacCarthy, Constantin Blome, Jan Olhager, Jagjit Singh Srai, Xiande Zhao · 2016

Purpose Supply chains evolve and change in size, shape and configuration, and in how they are coordinated, controlled and managed. Some supply chains are mature and relatively unchanging. Some are subject to significant change. New supply …

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