Abstract
Paper aims To identify factors to measure the cooperation between an agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative and input suppliers. Originality A performance measurement tool applicable in real-life industry practices related to input suppliers, based on critical success factors. Research method The performance measurement tool was calculated based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) procedure, constituted by two essential elements, the critical success factors and the key performance indicators, organized in a hierarchical structure. The key performance indicators are used to detail the critical success factors, measuring the supplier’s performance in relation to specific cooperation characteristics. Main findings In general, 77% of suppliers are fully or potentially cooperative with an established performance in risk sharing and information sharing factors. For the remaining 23% of suppliers classified as partially cooperatives, suggestions were proposed for changes to be implemented which improve their cooperation level performance. Finally, a direct relation between a low proportion of input discards and a established cooperative performance between suppliers and the analyzed agro-industrial pork cooperative was not verified. Implications for theory and practice To provide a performance measurement tool developed with methodological rigor to be used by researchers and agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative managers to improve the Brazilian pork slaughterhouse supply chain context.
Highlights
In any agro-industrial sector, the cooperation between input suppliers and agro-industrial cooperatives is essential to achieve greater productivity and reduce losses in the production systems
The main contributions of this paper are (a) to provide a systematic method for measuring the input supplier cooperation that can be applied to any agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative context, regardless of the number of different inputs provided by the supplier; (b) to verify the relation between a low proportion of discards and a high cooperative performance between input suppliers and the analyzed agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative; and (c) to study the impact of lean supply chain management factors, such as information and risk-sharing contracts, on cooperation between the agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative and input suppliers
The present study resulted in a performance measurement tool to measure the cooperation between an agro-industrial pork slaughterhouse cooperative and input suppliers, applied in a Brazilian company
Summary
In any agro-industrial sector, the cooperation between input suppliers and agro-industrial cooperatives is essential to achieve greater productivity and reduce losses in the production systems. One way to improve the supply service quality is to increase cooperation between the agro-industry and suppliers to coordinate supply collaboration and achieve mutually beneficial goals (Ziggers & Trienekens, 1999; Flynn et al, 2010; Jasti & Kodali, 2015; Sjauw-Koen-Fa et al, 2016). Using lean supply chain management concepts as a basis for cooperation increases competitiveness for the whole chain, achieving improvements in productivity and reduction in the costs to develop new products for consumers and to control the input supply operations (Larson & Greenwood, 2004; Singh & Pandey, 2015; Abreu et al, 2017)
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