Developing a Measurement Instrument for Supply Chain Event Management-Adoption

Abstract

Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) is an emerging topic in bothbusiness practice and academia. It receives increasing attention as morecompanies implement SCEM-systems. However, despite its practicalrelevance, no general definition of SCEM exists in literature or withincompanies until today. Also, so far SCEM has not been operationalizedfor quantitative studies. Thus, the goal of this paper is to contributeto an understanding of SCEM by defining a measurement instrument tomeasure the level of SCEM-adoption in companies. This has beenapproached on the one hand by pursuing a literature review of bothpractitioners and academic literature and on the other hand byconducting case studies in companies using SCEM-systems. First, a commondefinition of SCEM is generated from a combination of findings fromliterature and expert interviews, and second, a measurement instrumentfor SCEM-adoption is developed. Implications include advice on how totest the SCEM-adoption measurement instrument statistically in order toasses its ability to measure SCEM-adoption with high validity.