Download or read book Selected Essays on Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Nils-Ole Hohenstein and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Angelo Canzaniello and published by . This book was released on 2017* with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Innovation Product Development and Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Anand Nair (Graduate of Michigan State University) and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Innovation Product Development and Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Anand Nair and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets written by Micha Hirschinger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micha Hirschinger emphasizes the importance of foresight on logistics and institutions in particular for effective decision making as distinct research in this context is limited. He applies a systematic and transferable multi-method approach based on Delphi studies and fuzzy c-means cluster analysis to develop profound scenarios for the future. He uses the relevance of information-processing requirements to investigate whether centralization of purchasing organizations increases functional efficiency. The author finally shows how a sharing-economy business model transfer could help to overcome the limited access to factor markets, especially trucks, at the base of the pyramid.
Download or read book Strategic Technology Partnering and Supply Chain Risk Management written by Irène Kilubi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-11 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With her work, Irène Kilubi builds a bridge between two areas of business research, on the one hand the supply chain management, and on the other hand innovation and technology management. In the context of her work, she proposes to expand the usual instruments of supply chain risk management by strategic technology partnerships, which not only provide procurement alternatives but also the possibility to develop technological alternatives at short notice. More precisely, she advocates that the capabilities needed for STP serve as enablers for effective SCRM. Accordingly, connections between supply chain risk management and strategic technology partnering are presented and a conceptual framework is correspondingly created.
Download or read book Strategic Supply Chain Management written by Syed Abdul Rehman Khan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-30 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the scope of supply chain and logistics, which has continued to grow with a rapid speed. The book includes core aspects of supply chain and logistics philosophy and practice. The authors then cover the general principles of supply chain and logistics that can be applied in countries throughout the world. Where concepts cannot be generalized, they are based primarily on a European model. The authors have also added some international material and examples from China, Pakistan, India, and the USA. The book is intended to help in the quest of supply chain and logistics to reduce cost and improve service, as well as to keep up-to-date the different facets of supply chain and logistics in a global market. In addition, this book helps candidates to who are undertaking examinations for universities and professional institutes, and bachelor and master students who are studying for degrees in supply chain management. In addition, the book covers technical terminologies, definitions, and a supply chain dictionary.
Download or read book Perspectives in Operations Management written by Rakesh K. Sarin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fall of 1992 a conference honoring Elwood S. Buffa was held at the Anderson Graduate School of Management of the University of California, Los Angeles. This book is a collection of the work presented at that conference. The scholars who gathered to honor El are the prominent researchers in the field of Operations Management. Their collective work published in this book represents the richness of the field and provides the reader with valuable insights into its important issues and problems. While any grouping of the articles by these distinguished scholars will be arbitrary, I have organized the book in four sections. In the first section the articles dealing with the strategic issues in Operations Management are compiled. The articles deal with continuous improvement, quality, services, supply chain management, and creating value through operations. The articles that explore the interface of Operations Management with other functional areas, e.g. engineering and marketing, are grouped in the second section. The third section of the book contains articles that attempt to model some important planning problems that arise in the management of production and operations. Some of the papers in this section provide state of the art reviews of selected topic areas. Finally, the fourth section contains articles that deal with future directions for Operations Management. The authors offer several insights into the future evolution of the field. The book begins with the keynote address given by El Buffa at the start of the conference on November 2, 1991.
Download or read book Critically evaluate the development of Supply Chain Management over the last 30 years from its roots in physical distribution into a strategic boardroom level business issue written by Christian Bernhardt and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-21 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, language: English, abstract: ‘The real challenge is to improve the capabilities across supply chains significantly in order to drive out cost and realize revenue benefits – fast’ (Gattorna 2003, p.4). This statement both demon-strates the importance for enterprises and emphasizes the complexity of the supply chain require-ments these days. In times of strong competition almost everywhere it is especially important to meet customer needs and thus ‘achieving high levels of service’ (Taylor 1997, p.3). But where does Supply Chain Management (SCM) have its roots and what stands behind it? The purpose of this essay is to critically evaluate the development of SCM. It will both include an explanation of the differences between logistics and SCM and its reasons as well as an explana-tion why supply chain managers are now part of the senior management group. Therefore, the history of physical distribution, logistics and SCM will be mentioned, these three central terms will be defined precisely and four academic strategic approaches will be introduced briefly.
Download or read book Four Essays on the Interface Between Marketing and Operations in Supply Chain Management written by Pietro De Giovanni and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of four essays that contribute in the investigation of the interface between marketing and operations in supply chain management (SCM). The main motivation behind this work relate to the evolution of SCM, which goes from a mere logistics function expanded across inter-organizational boudaries to a systematic coordination and integration of traditional business functions. This evolution pushes researchers and practitioners to think about SCM as a sophisticated and complex phenomenon that needs to be further explored. This dissertation provides four essays and each of them carries out specific motivations and addresses price issues. The first essay empirically investigates which business function, between marketing and operations, contributes the most to firm's corporate performance in SCM. On the other hand, the research provides prescriptive insights to managers on how to boost the effectiveness of SCM on corporate performance when focusing either on operations or on marketing activities while adopting specific managerial levers. The second essay draws a detailed map identifying the current research gaps to be eventually filled. It elaborates information from 108 papers published over the last thirty years and provides the ongoing research directions to be undertaken by future studies investigating the interface between marketing and operations in SCM. The third essay introduces a differential game of marketing and operations modeling both vertical coordination and horizontal SC competition. It highlights the interfaces between marketing and operational strategies in a context of symmetric competition. The main result concerns the effect of coordination on competition. When the SCs are not coordinated, competition is played only by price. Conversely, When the SCs are coordinated, competition is played on both pricing and advertising. Coordination intensifies SC competition and turns out to be economically ineffective. The last essay shows the advantages of integrating marketing and operational strategies in an atypical supply chain(e.g., closed-loop supplay chain) where economic, environmental and social issues occur simultaneously. The main result concerns the effectiveness of coordination and the additional knowledge supplied when having dynamic returns to better understand the interfaces between marketing and operations. Summarizing, this dissertation shows the evaluable research findings obtainable when a complex phenomenon like SCM is analyzed from different persepctives, such as marketing and operations. Future research in the domain of SCM should pay more attention to the interfaces and the integration between business function's strategies to provide realible, complete and prescriptive managerial insights and research findings.
Download or read book Critically evaluate the development of Supply Chain Management over the last 30 years from its roots in physical distribution into a strategic boardroom level business issue written by Ralph Strubbe and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh (School of Management and Languages), language: English, abstract: When logistics is debated in general public, people mostly consider trucks, truck-drivers and noise. These aspects certainly belong to the broad business area related to logistics and nowadays Supply Chain Management (SCM). However it is easy to say that logistics and SCM contain a lot more than this. Critically evaluating the development of SCM over the last 30 years is the purpose of this essay. Doing so it is meant to involve a description of the development from physical distribution, via logistics to SCM, a confrontation of logistics and SCM and an explanation why supply chain managers are now part of the senior management group.
Download or read book Essays on Competition and Technology Strategies written by Zach Zhizhong Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on competition and technology strategies in three scenarios. Chapter 1 examines whether a lock-in strategy will indeed benefit proprietary software vendors in the competition. Developing a two-period duopoly model, we find that the answer could be either way. Lock-in strategy may be counter-productive in competing against open source software. This is in contrast to the competition between two proprietary software providers, whereas lock-in strategy could be beneficial under certain conditions. We find that lock-in reduces social welfare, but certain customers may be better off with lock-in. Finally, we show that the lock-in strategy works differently for different types of customers in the software market (i.e. forward-looking vs. myopic customers). Chapter 2 examines the impact of competition from open source software on proprietary software providers. We use an analytical model to capture two important features of open source software: (1) its zero licensing price, and (2) its lower usability compared with proprietary software. We find that competition from open source software can induce the proprietary software provider to increase its software quality and price relative to the monopoly case when the proprietary software provider's cost of enhancing software quality is moderate. This result is different from those in prior literature. Surprisingly, we also find that competition from open source software can also lead to a reduction in social welfare. Chapter 3 studies information transparency in a two-level supply chain with competing firms in both upstream and downstream. We find that information transparency can create value for the overall e-market, yet it affects downstream manufacturers and upstream suppliers very differently: one side will be hurt, depending on the competition mode (Cournot or Bertrand) in the downstream. Unfortunately, it never unanimously benefits the two sides; conflict of interest persists. To deal with this issue, we propose a pricing mechanism for the e-market operator to internalize informational benefits among suppliers and manufacturers so that the online market can be sustainable. Finally, we find that information transparency reduces consumer surplus. This is a surprising result given expectation that IT could create substantial value to consumers.
Download or read book Supply Chain Management and Its Integration with Strategy written by Makoto Nakaie and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay briefly introduces Supply Chain Management and its collaboration with Strategic Management in business. In this essay we try to highlight aspects of supply chain in strategic level. The essay is a part of the project of Supply Chain Management module under Taylor's University Undergraduate Business Programs. We send this paper to share our findings with those who are interested in business strategic management and supply chain management. Hope our paper invites and brings further researches to contribute and work more in this area of knowledge and collaboration of supply chain management and business strategic management.
Download or read book Essays in I Strategic Ordering with Endogenous Sequence of Events in Supply Chain II Strategic Management of New Product Innovation and Process Improvement written by Yongjae Kim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Supply Chain Disruptions written by Mikaella Polyviou and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global and interconnected supply chains have changed the risk profile of organizations by increasing their vulnerability to interruptions in the flow of materials or products within supply chain networks. Such supply chain disruptions have become more frequent and have proven to be damaging both to companies and to society more generally. Considering their negative implications, it is imperative to enhance our scientific understanding of supply chain disruptions and to identify ways to prevent them from occurring or to mitigate their effects when they do occur. In this dissertation, I focus on individuals, who are tasked with disruption resolution, and I examine how they react to supply chain disruptions of varying characteristics. Drawing insights from the Ancient Rhetors, specifically from Aristotle’s `pieces of circumstance’, as well as from contemporary Philosophers that conceptualized `events’, I propose a schema that helps Supply Chain Management scholars and professionals ask the right questions about supply chain disruptions and points to dimensions and characteristics that may be used to describe disruptions more holistically. With this schema, Supply Chain Management scholars and professionals can begin to assess supply chain disruptions more comprehensively, and to examine relationships between disruptions of specific characteristics and any outcomes of interest. Furthermore, utilizing two dimensions that derive from the schema for supply chain disruptions, I proceed to examine the effects of supply chain disruptions, which vary on those dimensions, on buyers’ negative emotions and strategic supplier decisions. I focus on emotions and decisions, because the former have received little attention in Supply Chain Management research; yet, they were shown to be powerful determinants of judgements and decisions in various contexts. Using two scenario-based role-playing experiments across two subject populations, I demonstrate that supply chain disruptions, of varying characteristics, trigger distinct negative emotions in buyers, who are tasked with disruption resolution. Moreover, I show that supply chain disruptions influence buyers’ decisions regarding strategic suppliers both directly and indirectly through negative emotions. Finally, I provide evidence to suggest that negative emotions, which are triggered by supply chain disruptions, influence buyers’ decisions in new contexts that are unrelated to the original context of the disruption. In this way, I demonstrate that buyers are not always acting as rational decision-makers, but they are in fact influenced by their prior experiences and by psychological processes, which spill over to bias buyers’ subsequent decisions.
Download or read book Essays in Supply Chain Management written by Mahesh Nagarajan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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