Review on Role of Knowledge Management in Supply Chain Management

There is a little dispute that supply chain management is an area of importance in the field of management research, yet there have been few literature reviews on this topic. Knowledge is a fundamental asset for firms in the contemporary economy. Increasingly, knowledge is distributed across individuals, teams, and organizations. Drawing on the knowledge-based view of the firm and theory from the information processing and organizational learning literatures, this study has been devised a model linking knowledge development to cycle time in strategic supply chains. Therefore, the ability to create, acquire, integrate, and deploy distributed knowledge has emerged as a fundamental organizational capability. This paper is also focusing on the role of knowledge management in managing supply chain. Many studies in this area so far distinguish different methodological attributes of the process that present knowledge management application in supply chain. This paper identifies that there is hardly any prove available on the improving collaboration between company’s outcome and IT strategies they use. They are still areas that are not clearly studied issues with outdated information in supply chain management is one of them. Further researches on the processing of the collection of knowledge promise new frontiers. This essay discusses building theories and empiric way of investigation at the end.