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This paper is dedicated to the problems of cooperation of supply chain members aiming to make use of synergic effects resulting in a number of benefits, e.g. lower costs, improved customer services, increased negotiation power, enhanced performance, or maximization of the value perceived by the customer. The paper aims to describe, analyse, and evaluate the methods of cooperation of the members of supply chains in metallurgy from the point of view of a particular company processing steel coils which is selling their products on B2C market. The analysis was based on the method of a comparison of outcomes acquired through the method of in-depth interviews conducted with managers of the given enterprise in accordance with a questioning scenario with the outcomes of the performed scientific literature research, which focuses on forms, prerequisites, benefits, and risks of cooperation within supply systems with respect to their characteristics and structure.
Keywords: supply chain, metallurgy, cooperation in supply chain, company processing steel coils© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.