Supply Chain Integration and Customer Relationship Management in the Airline Logistics

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to explain the relationship between supply chain integration (SCI) and customer relationship management (CRM) in the Emirates airline (EA) logistics. The paper adopts qualitative research methodology and presents an interpretive case study approach. The study uses triangulation method of data collection including interviews, observations, and documents and archival records. This study can be considered as one of important studies because it links between logistics and airlines management in the emerging economy. It provides a model for an aspiring company to strategically manage customer relationships and shows that good CRM can promote business growth, customer retention, and revenues generation. The study provides important implications for both academics and practitioners alike through the implementation of CRM to gain a competitive advantage over their rivals. The study concludes that the ability to promote the operating leverage, innovation, and entrepreneurship ideas, as well as a visionary management team, is essential for EA. It also concludes that the process of SCI can be improved from internal logistics processes to external integration with suppliers and customers, and such integration can be achieved via the CRM system. The study recommends that airlines industry need to make strategic efforts to be more competitive in the supply chain core of business by reducing logistics costs and satisfying the needs of their customers.

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Alshurideh, M. , Alsharari, N. and Al Kurdi, B. (2019) Supply Chain Integration and Customer Relationship Management in the Airline Logistics. Theoretical Economics Letters, 9, 392-414. doi: 10.4236/tel.2019.92028.

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