title: Understanding transferable supply chain lessons and practices to a "high-tech" industry using guidelines from a primary sector industry: a case study in the food industry supply chain.
abstract: Flexibility and innovation at creating shapes, adapting processes, and modifying materials characterize composites materials, a "high-tech" industry. However, the absence of standard manufacturing processes and the selection of materials with defined properties hinder the configuration of the composites materials supply chain. An interesting alternative for a "high-tech" industry such as composite materials would be to review supply chain lessons and practices in "low-tech" industries such as food. The main motivation of this study is to identify lessons and practices that comprise innovations in the supply chain of a firm in a perceived "low-tech" industry that can be used to provide guidelines in the design of the supply chain of a "high-tech" industry, in this case composite materials. This work uses the case study/site visit with analogy methodology to collect data from a Spanish leading producer of fresh fruit juice which is sold in major European markets and makes use of a cold chain. The study highlights supply base management and visibility/traceability as two elements of the supply chain in a "low-tech" industry that can provide guidelines that can be used in the configuration of the supply chain of the composite materials industry.
authors.affiliation: School of Management, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK.
authors.forename: Adrian E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Coronado Mondragon
authors.affiliation: Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada A1C 5RE.
authors.forename: Christian E
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2128-1035
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Coronado Mondragon
authors.affiliation: Networking and Telecommunications Professional Services, Montreal, QC, Canada H3S 1T2.
authors.forename: Etienne S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Coronado
mesh_terms: D002244:Carbon / Q000600:supply & distribution; D000077482:Carbon Fiber; D003188:Composite Resins / Q000600:supply & distribution; D019649:Food Industry; D005523:Food Supply; D007221:Industry; D018581:Technology Transfer
chemical_list: D000077482:Carbon Fiber; D003188:Composite Resins; D002244:Carbon