supply chain management
Supply chain management is the management of the flow of goods and services and includes all processes that transform raw materials into final products. It involves the active streamlining of a business’s supply-side activities to maximize customer value and gain a competitive advantage in the marketplace
Supply chain logistics management
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In todays competitive marketplace companies need to find new ways to create and deliver value. Managers start to understand that cost reduction and improved service can go along. This course provides an in-depth understanding of logistics and the change to Supply Chain
Effective supply chain management
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Packard. als, through factories and warehouses, to demand in a store for a finished product. the performance of suppliers, the reliability of manufacturing and transportation processes, and the changing desires of customers. The author describes several cases in which entire
Supply chain management and advanced planning
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More than 15 years have passed since we started working on the first edition of this book. A lot has happened in the meantime. A dot-com bubble has grown and burst. Another wave of lean management has rolled over the planning landscape. Some people still seem to think
Supply chain strategy: the logistics of supply chain management
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SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY: The Logistics of Supply Chain Manage-ment teaches the best practices and basics in logistics and supply chain management . The book is richly illustrated with 238 fig-ures featuring logistics principles in action at the worlds best logistics
Supply chain management : from vision to implementation
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7. There are four supply chain cost-reduction strategies employed by competent procurement functions as cited in the text. They include (1) productivity enhancement,(2) ________,(3) locating facilities in countries with low-cost inputs, and (4) sourcing from the
The 7 principles of supply chain management
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Unsuccessful efforts likewise have a consistent profile. They tend to be functionally defined and narrowly focused, and they lack sustaining infrastructure. Uncoordinated change activity erupts in every department and function and puts the company in grave danger of dying the
Lean supply chain and logistics management
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What Is Lean . . 1 Lean Failure .2 Implementing Lean 2 Supply Chain and Logistics Management Defined . . 3 Why All the Interest in Lean Supply Chain
The supply – chain management effect
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T en years ago, supply – chain thinking was limited to the managers of a few global companies struggling to coordinate internal information and materials.Their early success led to an exciting boom in cross-business coordination based on SL1pply-cl1ain
The integrated supply chain management system
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Abstract: This paper describes the goals and architecture of the Integrated Supply Chain Man- agement System (ISCM) being developed at the University of Toronto. ISCM provides an approach to the realtime performance of supply chain functions This paper describes the
The implementation of green supply chain management practices in electronics industry
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This research aims to survey current green activities in computer parts manufacturers in Thailand and to evaluate green supply chain management . To survey current green activities in computer parts manufacturers in Thailand, 11 manufacturers are case studies
Research methodologies in supply chain management
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For reseach in all subjects and among different philisopical paradigms, research methodologies form one of the key issues to rely on. This volume brings a series of papers together, which present different research methodologies as applied in supply chain
Postponement, product customization, and market-oriented supply chain management
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Market-oriented organizations often segment the markets and differentiate products and services to create and retain satisfied customers and surpass the competition. Scholarly work in this area suggests that market-oriented firms:(1) put the customer first; 1 (2)
An empirical study of the implementation of green supply chain management practices in the electrical and electronic industry and their relation to
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This study aims to investigate the green supply chain management practices likely to be adopted by the electrical and electronic industry in Taiwan, which is dominated by Original Equipment Manufacturing and Original Designing and Manufacturing manufacturers, after
A negotiation-based multi-agent system for supply chain management
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This paper describes an ongoing effort in developing a Multiagent System (MAS) for supply chain management . In our framework, functional agents can join in, stay, or leave the system. The Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) functionality is implemented
Examining RFID applications in supply chain management
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Operationally, RFID allows data from a tag attached to a pallet, case, or individual product to be captured by a reader device. Functionally, this data can be used to identify all of these items passing the readers location at a point in time. This technology provides a means of
A new introduction to supply chains and supply chain management : Definitions and theories perspective
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Abstract Supply Chain and Supply chain Management have played a significant role in corporate efficiency and have attracted the attention of numerous academicians over the last few years. Academic literature review discloses an important spurt in research in practice
Green supply chain management : A literature
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Sustainable development has made remarkable progress in establishing environmental and social sustainability towards operations management and the supply chain . Manufacturers in the late 1980s went beyond what was required in the legislation and went for a greener
Study of performance measurement practices in supply chain management
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Considerable research has been carried out and literature available in the field of Supply Chain Performance Management since 1990. Different perspectives of Supply Chain Performance Measures are cost and non-cost perspective; strategic, tactical or operational
Supply chain management in a networked economy
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Why a special issue of Journal of Retailing on Supply Chain Management The first, and probably the most obvious reason is that the retailer and its customer are at the end of the supply chain . In fact, several recent initiatives in industry have expanded the traditional
Supply chain management and multiagent systems: an overview
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This chapter introduces the topic of this book by presenting the fields of supply chain management , multiagent systems, and the merger of these two fields into multiagent-based supply chain management . More precisely, the problems encountered in supply chains and