Innovative Supply Chain Practices (ISCP) in Supply Chain Management: Development and Validation of a Measurement Scale

Abstract

Innovation is nowadays a major concern for companies seeking to improve their competitivity. Inter-organizational innovation is a lever frequently used by companies to achieve this end. In this context, businesses need to go beyond the traditional view of technological and product innovation and develop managerial innovations. In recent years the emergence of practices such as CPFR (Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment), VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory), Kanban supplier or consignment stock, has demonstrated the managerial popularity of these types of innovations and should push researchers to study them. To study such practices, a measurement instrument is necessary. However, this instrument does not exist and the existing measurement scales are fragmented. Our research goal is to develop and validate an instrument to measure Innovative Supply Chain Practices (ISCP) in Supply Chain Management (SCM). The measurement instrument consists of three independent measurement scales: ISCP deployment conditions and context, organisation’s innovation capacity, and ISCP performance. For each scale, we used a threestep methodological process: construction, purification and validation.