Some fundamental theories concerning supply chain collaboration

This article is a review of the research about the origin and development of supply chain collaboration. Describing supply chain collaboration as two or more independent firms, jointly working to align their supply chain processes as to create the best value at the end for customers and stakeholders with greater success than acting alone. The classification. of the relationships can present four fields: the supplier partnerships, the customer relationships, the external partnerships and the internal partnerships. However, the supply chain collaboration is not very successful. Why? We think there are many reasons explaining this disparity. It seems that the main reason is the absence of the fundamentals of supply chain collaboration. This paper reviews the impact on supply chain collaboration of the new theories of organization, the theory of the principal-agent, the business process reengineering and the win-win thought, the outsourcing.