Supply Chain Management and Clusters--A Case Study on Guangdong Automobile Clusters

Supply chain and industrial cluster are the results of competition economy. The distinguish and relation of them were discussed in order to put forward that supply chain and industrial cluster could be introjected. This paper illustrates the clusters theory, supply chain management theory and the linkages between supply chain management and Porterpsilas clusters theory. Clusterspsila characteristics enable more efficient supply chain management practices, and supply chain management improves clusters competitive advantage. Taking Guangdong automobile clusters for example, analyzing the present situation of Guangzhou automobile industrial cluster, the paper considers that the establishment of the cluster should take the improvement to fits supply chain as the base and the key factors that determine the development of Guangzhou automobile industrial supply chain and the industrial cluster are enterprise core competitiveness, maturity structure of automobile industrial supply chain, clusters and automobile industrial clusters system based on supply chain management. This is the theory base for application of the supply chain management methods in the industrial cluster construction and obtaining the competition advantage of industrial cluster based on global supply chains.