Download or read book Supply Chain Flexibility Uncertainty and Firm Performance written by Ulf Merschmann and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chain flexibility is widely seen as one major response to increasing uncertainty and competition in the marketplace. Researches and practioners acknowledge the competitive advantage of supply chain flexibility. However, flexibility is costly. Thus, a match between flexibility and environmental uncertainty seems to be an appropriate option. Empirical research on the relationship between environmental uncertainty and supply chain flexibility is sparse. This paper contributes to the emerging body of research by addressing the relationship between environmental uncertainty, supply chain flexibility, and firm performance through a survey of German manufacturing companies. We use structural equation modeling to analyze one of the key questions of operations management: Does a match between environmental uncertainty and supply chain flexibility lead to competitive advantages? More precisely, we present evidence that in uncertain environments companies with highly flexible supply chains perform better than companies with less flexible supply chains while in certain environments the opposite holds.
Download or read book Flexibility in supply chains of clothing retailers written by Junaid Javaid and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Project Report from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: B-, University of Bedfordshire, course: Logistics and supply chain management project, language: English, abstract: This dissertation will be based on the idea of analytically reviewing the supply chain flexibility concept and is based on the thorough understanding of given concept in the textile industry. In this research report, models of firm performance and supply chain traits will be critically analysed. As a result, this research will outline suggestions in regard to the enhancement of supply chain flexibility. This research project will be instrumental for giving recommendations to other tradition clothing retailers. In this manner, clothing retailers would be able to improve their supply chain flexibility. There are certain objectives of this research project that are outlined below: - To learn about the relationship between flexibility-firm performance and flexibility-uncertainty. - To analyse the link between the supply chain characteristics and firm performance. - To identify certain areas where potential improvement will be induced. This will be made sure through in-depth analysis of both companies’ (discuss in case study section) supply chain flexibility.
Download or read book Effects of Flexibility and Supply Chain Agility on Firm Performance in the Fashion Industry written by Tick Lun Alan Chan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used for testing measurement and structural models. The data from 141 samples revealed that both strategic flexibility and manufacturing flexibility positively influence supply chain agility. Meanwhile, strategic flexibility and supply chain agility positively influence firm performance but not manufacturing flexibility. Supply chain agility also plays a significant mediating role in firm performance. Based on these findings, the present study adds to the growing evidence of supply chain agility in both the academe and the practitioners' arena. The results provide solid implications to practitioners in the industry to help them beef up their firepower in today's fiercely competitive market. The result is consistent with those arguments that promote the importance of supply chain agility in association with firm performance. However, the statistical findings do not support the hypothesis that manufacturing flexibility positively influences firm performance. Manufacturing flexibility positively influences firm performance with only supply chain agility as the mediator. The present study articulates the perspective that firms should not look at flexibility in isolation from the rest of the supply chains, but should orchestrate the supply chain capability in a holistic manner and strive for a strategic level of supply chain agility in a broader sense.
Download or read book Supply Chain Design Operational Capabilities and Firm Performance written by Kuldeep Singh (Ph.D.) and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chain agility has been the cornerstone of research in supply chain management field. Despite the benefits associated with pursuing agile supply chain strategy, little is known about how the agile supply chain strategy stimulate better performance for the firms. Also, there is a lack of understanding of the conditions under which agile supply chain strategy impacts the performance. Through the theoretical lens of strategy, structure, performance paradigm, knowledge-based view, and contingency theory, this research examines the linkages from agile supply chain strategy to mass customization capability (MCC), and operational ambidexterity (OA).This study also examines the association between MCC, OA and multiple dimensions of the performance. Moreover, this research examines the role of MCC and OA as the means to achieve the objective of agile supply chain strategy. Furthermore, this study investigates the critical role played by strategic integration, environmental uncertainty, and internal integration from a contingency perspective.The data was collected from 302 supply chain professionals working at US manufacturing firms. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the hypothesized relationships. The results demonstrate that agile supply chain strategy is positively associated with MCC and OA. This research shows that MCC and OA are critical capabilities that enable the company to compete on multiple dimensions of performance. Also, the results indicate that MCC partially mediates the relationship agile supply chain strategy and cost, quality, delivery, flexibility, and business performance. On the other hand, OA partially mediates the relationship between agile supply chain strategy and cost, delivery, and flexibility. Further, OA fully mediates the relationship between agile supply chain strategy and quality.The results uncover the importance of strategic integration by demonstrating that strategic integration has a direct association with MCC in addition to moderating the relationship between agile supply chain strategy and MCC. This study also indicates that the relationship between MCC and cost, quality, flexibility, and business performance becomes stronger under the condition of high environmental uncertainty,thereby providing evidence of the effectiveness of MCC. Further, the results reveal the importance of internal integration by showing that higher the internal integration, the stronger the association between OA and cost, and flexibility. Based on the findings of this study, research and managerial implications are discussed.
Download or read book Supply Chain Management written by John T. Mentzer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a comprehensive model of supply chain management. Experienced executives from 20 companies clearly define supply chain management, identifying those factors that contribute to its effective implementation. They provide practical guidelines on how companies can manage supply chains, addressing the role of all the traditional business functions in supply chain management and suggest how the adoption of a supply chain management approach can affect business strategy and corporate performance.
Download or read book Key Factors of Sustainable Firm Performance written by Mustafa Emre Civelek and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncertainty and volatility of modern commercial environments have shifted the foundations of business success and survival. Key factors that affect firm performance and determine sustainability now include knowledge creation, knowledge management, uncertainty management, organizational intelligence, and supply chain administration. This book proposes an analytical approach to identifying and enhancing these critical factors and describes how firms can exploit their strengths and compensate for their disadvantages. Sustaining business success requires competitive strategies that are rational and analytical. Firms that know their goals have an advantage over their rivals; those that can innovate and incorporate the knowledge they develop will prosper, even in the most competitive situations. Managers and business practitioners can learn from this book how to identify the key factors that make their firms effective and successful, and how to ensure they remain sustainable over time.
Download or read book Managing the Supply Chain written by David Simchi-Levi and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003-11-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's environment of tight budgets and even tighter turnarounds, effective supply-chain management has become a core business requirement. Managing the Supply Chain adapts the number one supply-chain book on the college market to examine how professionals can consistently turn supply-chain strategy into a competitive advantage. This results-based book examines the experiences of today's most accomplished companies to demonstrate supply-chain innovation at work in the marketplace.
Download or read book Complexity Management in Supply Chains written by Thorsten Blecker and published by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply chains are faced with a rising complexity with manifold effects. Because of the strong link between a supply chain's complexity and its efficiency, supply chain complexity management becomes a major challenge of today's business management. Therefore logistics and the supply chain management can play a significant role in mastering and managing complexity. The new book, edited by Thorsten Blecker and Wolfgang Kersten, is exemplifying the current progress in complexity management. Separate chapters are dedicated to clarify complexity management in transportation, networks and supply chains. It offers important insights of global and flexible network modelling to manage complexity, complexity in supply chains - developing human resource strategy, performance measurement of green supply chain management, complexity in transportation by means of containers and air-cargos. The volume, written by well-known experts of supply chain management from all over the world, shows applicable solutions, practical examples and use cases to illustrate complexity management and its application in logistics and supply chain management. It presents the central perspectives for a modern complexity management in supply chains. Therefore the book offers a fundamental understanding for workable complexity management concept their implementation to practitioners. The book offers fundamental insights into actual problems of an general complexity management concept and their implementation to practitioners in industry, logistics, management, service sector, research and apprenticeship. In addition to this it gives a valuable insight to the status of complexity management also for lecturers and students.
Download or read book System Performance and Management Analytics written by P. K. Kapur and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shares key insights into system performance and management analytics, demonstrating how the field of analytics is currently changing and how it is used to monitor companies’ efforts to drive performance.Managing business performance facilitates the effective accomplishment of strategic and operational goals, and there is a clear and direct correlation between using performance management applications and improved business and organizational results. As such, performance and management analytics can yield a range of direct and indirect benefits, boost operational efficiency and unlock employees’ latent potential, while at the same time aligning services with overarching goals.The book addresses a range of topics, including software reliability assessment, testing, quality management, system-performance management, analysis using soft-computing techniques, and management analytics. It presents a balanced, holistic approach to viewing the world from both a technical and managerial perspective by considering performance and management analytics. Accordingly, it offers a comprehensive guide to one of the most pressing issues in today’s technology-dominated world, namely, that most companies and organizations find themselves awash in a sea of data, but lack the human capital, appropriate tools and knowledge to use it to help them create a competitive edge.
Download or read book Supply Chain Performance written by Yvan Nieto and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revisiting Supply Chain Risk written by George A. Zsidisin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a bridge between our current understanding of supply chain risk in practice and theory, and the monumental shifts caused by the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution. Supply chain risk and its management have experienced significant attention in scholarship and practice over the past twenty years. Our understanding of supply chain risk and its many facets, such as uncertainty and vulnerability, has expanded beyond utilizing approaches such as deploying inventory to buffer the initial effects of disruptions. Even with our increased knowledge of supply chain risk, being in the era of lean supply chain practices, digitally managed global supply chains, and closely interconnected networks, firms are exposed as ever to supply chain uncertainties that can damage, or even destroy, their ability to compete in the marketplace. The book acknowledges the criticality of big data analytics in Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) processes and provides appropriate tools and approaches for creating robust SCRM processes. Revisiting Supply Chain Risk presents a state-of-the-art look at SCRM through current research and philosophical thought. It is divided into six sections that highlight established themes, as well as provide new insights to developing areas of inquiry and contexts on the topic. Section 1 examines the first step in managing supply chain risk, risk assessment. The chapters in Section 2 encompass resiliency in supply chains, while Section 3 looks at relational and behavioral perspectives from varying units of analysis including consortiums, teams and decision makers. Section 4 focuses on examining supply chain risk in the contexts of sustainability and innovation. Section 5 provides insight on emerging typologies and taxonomies for classifying supply chain risk. The book concludes with Section 6, featuring illustrative case studies as real-world examples in assessing and managing supply chain risk.
Download or read book Building A Responsive And Flexible Supply Chain written by Yoshiteru Minagawa and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies accounting-based management control system practices for managing integrated and flexible supply chains and increasing customer satisfaction. It further explores how a company can enhance its supply chain integration. The book considers the effects of allocating supply chain's joint profit and incentive alignment as managerial instruments to facilitate integration and cooperation among partners. Furthermore, the book examines how to flexibly manage integrated supply chains from the perspectives of the product/service lifecycle, partner switching, and strategic flexibility. It also examines the use of management accounting systems to improve customer satisfaction in supply chains. Management accounting practices examined in the book involve balanced scorecard, switching cost, target costing, value-based pricing, target-pricing, and quality costing.The book also investigates the different types of supply chains: fabless supply chains, an inter-firm network comprising of parts suppliers and assemblers, non-profit supply chains.
Download or read book Using Supply Chain Flexibility to Account for Uncertainty in Demand written by Thomas Mark Kelsch and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizations and Environments written by Howard Aldrich and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cited the book for its innovative answer to this question: Under what conditions do organizations change? Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essential features of relations between organizations and their environments. This model explains organizational change by focusing on the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle. The "environment," as conceived by Aldrich, does not refer simply to elements "out there"beyond a set of focal organizationsbut rather to concentrations of resources, power, political domination, and most concretely, other organizations. Scholars using Aldrich's model have examined the societal context within which founders create organizations and whether those organizations survive or fail, rise to prominence, or sink into obscurity. A preface to the reprinted edition frames the utility of this classic for tomorrow's researchers and businesspeople.
Download or read book Global Supply Chain Performance and Risk Optimization written by Rob Smith and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rob Smith quantifies the financial value of Real Options in the form of operational and managerial flexibility in the real-life world of the global automotive industry using an existing, operational supply chain specifically designed to support world car vehicle platform production.
Download or read book Uncertainty Modeling In Knowledge Engineering And Decision Making Proceedings Of The 10th International Flins Conference written by Cengiz Kahraman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 1373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINS, originally an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended to Computational Intelligence for applied research. The contributions to the 10th of FLINS conference cover state-of-the-art research, development, and technology for computational intelligence systems, both from the foundations and the applications points-of-view.
Download or read book Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving written by Millie Pant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proceedings of SocProS 2015 will serve as an academic bonanza for scientists and researchers working in the field of Soft Computing. This book contains theoretical as well as practical aspects using fuzzy logic, neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, swarm intelligence algorithms, etc., with many applications under the umbrella of ‘Soft Computing’. The book will be beneficial for young as well as experienced researchers dealing across complex and intricate real world problems for which finding a solution by traditional methods is a difficult task. The different application areas covered in the proceedings are: Image Processing, Cryptanalysis, Industrial Optimization, Supply Chain Management, Newly Proposed Nature Inspired Algorithms, Signal Processing, Problems related to Medical and Health Care, Networking Optimization Problems, etc.
