Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:26:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Luciana Garcia Sobral.pdf: 3252050 bytes, checksum: 47c963ace331b8a086f4c776c4cc2daa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-06 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The capabilities development, as a combination of resources and competencies, have been studied to understand the competitiveness of companies. Accordingly, this study sought to verify the influence of capabilities in the relation between strategy and operational performance of the Brazilian automotive industries. The theory presented is based in authors of Supply Chain Management, operations strategy and dynamic capabilities such as Teece and Pisano (2003), Christopher (2003), Barney (1991), Ferdows e DeMeyer (1990) e Morash (2001). This research was performed in two phases: The first phase, consisted of a qualitative exploratory study, which main s objective was to deepen the understanding of the Brazilian automotive chain, as well as to identify the competitive priorities as an element of fit between second tier suppliers, first tier suppliers and OEMs, in the dyadic context. Data was collected using in-depth interviews with five companies that were in the automotive sector. Data was analyzed using content analysis, and it was verified that there were three common competitive priorities among those companies: cost, reliability and flexibility. These competitive priorities were then translated into strategies, capabilities and performance, concentrating the focus on the automotive suppliers. The second phase of this research consisted of verifying the influence of capabilities in the relation between strategy and performance. This phase consisted of a quantitative exploratory research, that included a sample of 48 automotive suppliers, whose respondents were managers of the operations, supply chain and procurement areas. The data was treated using multivariate statistics, and revealed that capabilities in general have a mediation effect in the relation between strategy and performance. It was concluded that Braziian s automotive suppliers have their biggest focus in capabilities related to processes (combination of resources and competencies) to influence performance. / O desenvolvimento de capabilidades como uma combinação da utilização dos recursos e competências, tem sido objeto de estudos para compreender a competitividade das empresas. Nesse sentido, este estudo, buscou verificar a influência das capabilidades operacionais na relação entre estratégia e desempenho operacional das empresas da indústria automotiva. Fundamentada, do ponto de vista teórico, em autores da gestão da cadeia de suprimentos, operações, estratégias e capabilidades dinâmicas, como Teece e Pisano (2003), Christopher (2003), Barney (1991), Ferdows e DeMeyer (1990) e Morash (2001), realizou-se um trabalho de pesquisa composto de duas etapas principais. A primeira, de natureza exploratória do tipo qualitativo, teve como objetivo aprofundar o entendimento da cadeia automotiva, bem como identificar as prioridades competitivas como elemento de alinhamento (ou direcionador) entre fornecedores, empresa foco e clientes, em contexto de cadeia de suprimentos diádicos. Foram coletados dados, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade junto a cinco empresas representativas da cadeia automotiva. Estes foram tratados pela técnica de análise de conteúdo, revelando três prioridades competitivas comuns: custo, confiabilidade e flexibilidade. As prioridades identificadas foram desdobradas em estratégias, capabilidades e desempenho, concentradas nas empresas foco (no caso, empresas de autopeças). Assim, seguiu-se para a segunda etapa com o objetivo de verificar, na empresa foco, a influência da capabilidade na relação entre estratégia e desempenho. A pesquisa de natureza exploratória do tipo quantitativo utilizou-se de uma amostra de 48 empresas de autopeças automotivas, coletada junto aos gestores de operações, cadeia de suprimentos e logística. Os dados coletados, tratados pela estatística multivariada, revelaram que a capabilidade tem um papel mediador na relação entre estratégia e desempenho. Deste resultado pode-se concluir que as empresas de autopeças focam em capabilidades relacionadas a processos (combinação de recursos e competências) para influenciar o seu desempenho.

Application of supply chain management is still relatively recent practice, but it's importance is growing over time. Today, in the era of customer centricity, in order to become competitive firms shouldn't avoid collaboration with it's supply chain partners. Purpose of my thesis was to find out how supply chain management can contribute to building relationship with customers, who are the basis of any existing company. First part summarizes knowledge about supply chain, compeptitive strategies, customers, types of supply chains and customer relationship management. Particular part is dedicated to customer service and how supply chain management can contribute to it's improving. It describes also what meaning has customer service for future competitiveness. In second part, I presented the case of Zappos.com. E-retailer, which aligning entire functional strategies and whole supply chain to common strategic purpose managed to build excellent relationship with it's customers.