Understanding Collaboration and Supply Chain Process: A Critical Review

Previous research in supply chain management and collaboration emphasized on examining the attributes that make collaboration process successful. Others attempted to measure the collaboration process and the performance gained from such ventures. This paper managed to identify critical issues, regarding collaboration, in supply chain management. By reviewing previous researched and papers published regarding the said subject, it is discovered that most of the research discussed about conventional collaboration and there is lack of research on non-liner supply chain process. The author's intention to relate the collaboration issues within Malaysian context revealed lack of existence of reported research on the supply chain collaboration among Malaysian manufacturers. Therefore this paper attempts to identify issues related to non-linear supply chain process and collaboration activities and relate the issues into Malaysian context.