Download or read book Chains of Opportunity written by Harrison C. White and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engaging Smallholders in Value Chains Creating new opportunities for beekeepers in Ethiopia written by Shekhar Anand and published by Oxfam. This book was released on with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sustainable Supply Chains written by and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2018 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This case study examines Marks & Spencer's "Plan A" brand strategy for sustainability in general and, in particular, the development of Marks & Spencer's new "Plan A" vehicle. The new lorry has not only reduced the company's carbon emissions but has also lowered costs by increasing load capacity while reducing fuel consumption.
Download or read book Sustainable Logistics and Supply Chains written by Meng Lu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the main challenges affecting modern logistics and supply chains and is organized according to five main themes: supply chain strategy and management, information and communication technology (ICT) for logistics and related business models, vertical and horizontal collaboration, intelligent hubs (e.g. ports and cities) and policy for sustainable logistics. The key findings presented are based on both extensive research and on business cases. The book examines logistics from a comprehensive viewpoint embracing the entire supply chain. The overarching advanced logistics and supply chain concept at the heart of this book endeavors to contribute to a sustainable intelligent transport system by making it more efficient, cost-effective, safe, reliable and competitive. Specifically, the book focuses on the need for a variety of supply chain, logistics and transport options, on the potential offered by technological developments, infrastructural and organizational aspects, information flows, the financial and legal domain, harmonization and the complexity of implementation. In closing, the book presents new approaches to the coordination of sound business and governance models.
Download or read book Creating Entrepreneurial Supply Chains written by William B. Lee and published by J. Ross Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on opportunities for growth and innovation through entrepreneurial supply chains, taking the reader through the entire process of opportunity identification, due diligence, writing the business plan, managing risks, integrating the entrepreneurial supply chain venture, and reaping the payoff.
Download or read book Understanding Value Chains written by Sarah Faust and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Value Chains first examines the process of the institutionalization of the main theoretical foundations of the global value chain since its conception in the academic field and, subsequently, in international organizations. The authors analyse the evolution of Mode 5 services jobs and salaries in the EU, assessing whether there are signs of functional upgrading and how it affects female jobs and the gender pay gap. The coffee global value chain is broken down into five segments: primary production, processing, trade, roasting, and marketing. An investigation of 34 Indonesian provinces was conducted in an effort to reformulate the policies relating to circular sustainable reverse logistics. Four new components: vision, mission, and managerial orientation; infrastructure capabilities; human resource and organizational commitment; and regulation are used to assess the readiness of each level of government. The authors discuss how, as the UK had no trade agreement with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries immediately after the referendum vote, this transition period presents an excellent opportunity to negotiate a new trade agreement. Value chain analysis is used to help understand how Guyana participates in the gold value chain, and to help develop appropriate policies to address its supply-side limitations. Guinéa-Bissau's position in the cashew value chain is assessed, and recommendations to address challenges are proposed. This compilation presents the agricultural value chain framework, introducing the main ideas of the system dynamics methodology and demonstrating the application of system dynamics modeling to a real-world case.
Download or read book Paradoxes in Food Chains and Networks written by J.H. Trienekens and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-28 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains the proceedings of the 5th international conference on chain and network management in agribusiness and the food industry. Papers will focus on the paradoxes caused by conflicting interests in the fields of economics and ethics, technology and environment, legislation and internationalisation, etc. The modern consumer demands highquality products, in broad assortments throughout the year, and for competitive prices. Society imposes constraints on companies in order to economize on the use of resources, ensure animal-friendly and safe production, and restrict pollution. Together with technological developments and increased international competition, these demands have changed the production, trade, and distribution of food products beyond recognition. Demand is no longer confined to local or regional supply. The food industry is now swiftly becoming an interconnected system with a large variety of complex relationships. This is changing the way food is brought to the market. Currently, even fresh produce shipped from halfway around the world can be offered at competitive prices. These developments are accompanied by national and international regulations and legislation in the area of food quality and safety. In response to these changes, business strategies must now focus not only on traditional economical and technological interests, but also on topical issues such as the safety and healthfulness of food products, animal friendliness, the environment, etc. To effectively address paradoxical demands facing businesses, many problems and opportunities must be approached from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and trade-offs must be made between different aspects of production, trade and the distribution of food.
Download or read book Global Supply Chains and Multimodal Logistics Emerging Research and Opportunities written by Sinha, Deepankar and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International trade has made logistics a strategic consideration for firms. The decision-making framework is substantially different in the case of international logistics, as this involves cross-border movement of goods and multimodal transportation. An integrated framework based on customer's requirement, their country regulations, risk, and cost specific to goods and countries needs to be developed. Global Supply Chains and Multimodal Logistics: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential reference source that provides concepts of global logistics and its risk factors and provides an integrated framework for effective decision making. Highlighting such topics as enterprise resource planning, forecasting models, and logistics systems, this publication is ideally designed for managers, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students in fields including but not limited to supply chain management, international business, and logistics.
Download or read book Breaking The Chains Of Darkness written by Tella Olayeri and published by GOD'S LINK VENTURES. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a series of peaks and valleys. Sometimes you are up, sometimes you are down. Situations are not permanent! It is in the difficult times we face reality of life, either to sink or flow. Battle of life is not fun fare, it is warfare. You don’t wait for your destiny to be delivered to you. You must wrestle your destiny out of the hands of the enemy. Chain of darkness gradually kills destiny and reduces you to a pauper. You must, therefore, come to the point of desperation where a change must occur. Your destiny is not just glorious, it is precious. This is what enemies know that make them attack you and put you in chain. Today the chain is broken! Chains of darkness must be broken. Sometimes life seems like too hot to handle, jobs are lost, relationships break, people die, financial troubles loom, famines are experienced, poverty and stagnancy are recorded, bad health take over homes, bareness affects homes, while spirit of backwardness take tolls of lives. Witchcraft chains that scatter hope bind souls to one spot. The evil chain behind it is what this book is all about. No one is free from satanic opposition. God created us for glory, but Satan marks us for destruction. You must be violent in prayer, before you can achieve great things of life. There is no free lunch anywhere. You must wrestle for freedom. Something has to be done to turn your captivity around. Every oppression has an end. This is the reason this book is written. To break every manner of chain, enemy used to captivate destiny. It is fatal to be in chain. Enemies are cruel. They want you to be in chain till eternity. It is you that must be violent against their decision to keep you stagnant and be a failure. There is no man that is free from this battle. There is no one that is not being attacked by the enemy. You are not free neither from evil chain. Every chain of darkness designed for you shall break to pieces by fire! This book teaches you how to pray. Nobody can pray for you like yourself. Every man shall bear his burden. This book is loaded with violent prayers to achieve the following: 1. Every chain of darkness against your success shall break. 2. Powers of darkness shall bow and back out. 3. You shall be a prayer War Lord that destroys works of darkness. 4. Your foundation shall be healed and experience breakthrough. 5. Blood of Jesus shall cancel every mark of darkness in your life. 6. Deep problems are solved, yokes are broken. 7. The light of God shall shine upon you. 8. Every closed door against your success shall break open. 9. Mountains are levelled, barriers broken. 10. You shall experience sudden deliverance from the hands of darkness. 11. Every manner of frustration and confusion shall expire. 12. At last, you shall dance your dance and sing songs of praises to the Lord.
Download or read book Renold Chains written by Basil Tripp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the history and company of Renold Chains and the rise of the Precision Chain Industry between 1879 and 1955. Originally published in 1956, Renold Chains Limited, as the largest precision chain and chain accessory producing organisation in the world.
Download or read book Chain Store Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Africa s Development Dynamics 2022 Regional Value Chains for a Sustainable Recovery written by African Union Commission and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Africa’s Development Dynamics uses lessons from Central, East, North, Southern and West Africa to develop policy recommendations and share good practices. The 2022 edition explores how developing regional value chains can help African countries rebound from the socio-economic shocks of the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate productive transformation.
Download or read book Industry 4 0 Technologies Sustainable Manufacturing Supply Chains written by K E K Vimal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings forth the fundamental understanding of the role of Industry 4.0 technologies in sustainable manufacturing supply chain. Readers will get an overview of the challenges, opportunities, and requirements for the implementation of digital technologies and how they can support manufacturing supply chains to be sustainable. The book presents many applications of Industry 4.0 including integration of IoT, AI, Big Data, Blockchain, Procurement 4.0, Logistics 4.0, and Lean 4.0 in different contexts. The book therefore provides a platform for researchers, academicians, and professionals from diverse backgrounds to gain state-of-the-art knowledge for using Industry 4.0 in sustainable manufacturing supply chains. Readers will also be able to identify the practical significance and opportunities for future work directions.
Download or read book Supply Chains written by David A. Taylor and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Taylor shows readers how to assemble a killer supply chain using the knowledge, technology, and tools employed in supply-chain success stories. Using his signature fast-track summaries, graphics, and sidebars, Taylor offers a clear roadmap to understanding and solving the complex problems of supply-chain management.
Download or read book Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainable Supply Chains in the Post global Economy written by Natalia Yakovleva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of studies on current best practices for delivering sustainable development policies within supply chains. It critiques the limitations of existing business theory and practice on sustainable supply chain management, and discusses opportunities for new conceptual models for businesses to engage with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It examines how businesses can work towards implementing Sustainable Development Goals in the contexts of entrepreneurial initiative, industry collaboration and regional development. SDGs renew the sustainable development agenda for global communities and ask businesses and organisations to reset their sustainable development policies. A strategy to embed sustainable development principles into business operations along the supply chain operations, which has been a conceptual and, in many instances, practitioner, business and industry achievement of the past decades, is not enough to shift the economic and social conditions of poor populations around the world. How would the global supply chains of the future look like? What social relations does it envisage? How will businesses and organisations engage with societies, environments and complex institutional contexts in emerging markets and developing countries, which are faced with issues of population growth, needed leaps in infrastructure provision, educational and health improvements, cultural and institutional shifts? The books challenges current approaches to sustainable supply chain practices guided by discussion on SDGs. It reviews implementation issues of existing sustainable development approaches, assesses the advancement of sustainable development strategies and examines the opportunities for global value chains to increase their positive social and environmental inputs in regions, communities and organisations. The book collects both conceptual and empirical studies set in a variety of business and organisational contexts, such as manufacturing, retail, procurement, cities and industrial parks. It contests the accepted axioms of sustainable practices in the global supply chains and proposes new models for organisations and production networks to engage with societies and address market and production effects on communities and institutions.
Download or read book Dynamic Quality Models and Games in Digital Supply Chains written by Pietro De Giovanni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book bridges the fields of Supply Chain Management, Digital Transformation, and Dynamic Quality models in order to illustrate how digital transformation affects the work of researchers and managers in Supply Chain Quality problems. It aims to address the gap in scholarship regarding new technologies, updating the established literature to reimagine theoretical models, dynamic games, knowledge management, supply chain coordination solutions, interfaces in circular economies, and other functional spaces for a digital era. Written for researchers, managers, and practitioners, this book offers an accessible approach to the topics through clear, management-oriented chapters, reserving mathematical background for the Appendices. It discusses an array of modern challenges in digitization, including smart device installation, Cloud data accessibility, applications of AI systems, Supply Chain monitoring via Blockchains, using sensors in operations, and digital tool integration within traditional IS frameworks.
Download or read book Certification s Impacts on Forests Stakeholders and Supply Chains written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People like forests- they have many emotional and cultural attachments to them. They also like forest products - and need increasing quantities of them. But they often don't like, don't understand, and don't trust what comes in between: forest management, which lies at the interface of public services (biodiversity, watersheds, etc) and private goods (timber, food, etc). Certification was developed to independently verify the quality of forest management, to communicate this to market players, and so to improve market benefits for the products of good management. The growing influence of the Forest Stewardship Council is one of the most striking recent developments in forestry. Certification is increasingly common in all continents. But has it actually improved forest management? Has it created sufficient market incentives? Above all, has it enabled trust to develop between stakeholders, so that they can work together better, to build the institutions required for sustainable forest management? This book is the result of two years' study by IIED and collaborators in several countries: it provides evidence for considerable policy and institutional change as a result of certification, and the beginnings of change in forest and market practice.
