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Book Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains

Download or read book Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains written by Essila, Jean C. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization has made both operations and supply chains more complex than ever before. Inputs are sourced from many locations all over the world to serve different needs and market segments throughout the planet, making it a global challenge that necessitates a global strategic response. Managing Operations Throughout Global Supply Chains is a crucial academic resource that discusses concepts, methodologies, and applications of emerging techniques for operations and supply chain management processes that promote cost efficiency. While highlighting topics such as global operations, resource planning, and business forecasting, this publication explores how organizations manage the procurement of all necessary resources at every stage of the production cycle from the original source to the final consumers. This book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, practitioners, professional organizations, policymakers, and government officials.

Book Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices

Download or read book Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices written by Fred Sollish and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest best practice guidance on all aspects of global strategic sourcing-including environmental and international issues Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices covers the latest trends and leading edge processes in global strategic sourcing, including supply management, t, sustainability, financial decisions, risk management, and international strategies. Offers the latest trends and guidance for sourcing and supply managers Features coverage of understanding sourcing, procurement and supply management, procurement and best business practices, best practices in sourcing management and global sourcing management, financial strategies for sourcing, responsible procurement,diversity procurement, managing risk, supplier selection, project management for procurement and supply managers, managing supplier relationships, international sourcing, managing supplier relationships supply management operations, With the rise of global supply chains, environmental/sustainability concerns, and constantly evolving technology, the time is right for understanding Strategic Global Sourcing Best Practices.

Book An Overview of Global Strategic Sourcing

Download or read book An Overview of Global Strategic Sourcing written by Fred Sollish and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection discusses global sourcing and explores strategies for locating, qualifying, and employing suppliers that add maximum value to your business. Discover profit-boosting opportunities specific to your market environment by following Sollish's clear steps for analyzing and implementing a strategic sourcing plan. Other topics covered include investigating sourcing opportunities, co-sourcing and strategic alliances, and reducing supply risk.

Book Global Operations Sourcing Strategy

Download or read book Global Operations Sourcing Strategy written by Y. Chen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We report on a survey of global manufacturing sourcing decisions that were made by multi-national companies operating in China. Based on responses from Chinese managers, the survey explored explicit sourcing and technology company decisions. The analysis provided insights into what these firms are doing with respect to global sourcing and why they are doing so. Analysis of the responses also shed light on how these decisions were made. Our results tested the validity of various arguments that have been put forward to predict or explain the pattern of global sourcing shifts that is taking place. The key takeaways from this paper are 1) the observed pattern of decision making, which can be grouped into dominant flows, indicates that re-shoring to the developed economies is not happening on a large scale and that shifting in and out of and within China is occurring with direction and reasons dependent on the particular industry, and 2) insight into the fact that that firms are evaluating complex tradeoffs when making both technology and sourcing decisions and thus a single dominant driver, such as labor cost, does not adequately explain the observed patterns.

Book Global Sourcing Strategy

Download or read book Global Sourcing Strategy written by Masaaki Kotabe and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique book empirically explores the complex issue of how successful multinational firms manage interfaces of R&D, manufacturing, and marketing on a global basis, emphasizing the linkages among them in the value chain. For the encompassing nature of this investigation, the author calls this interface issue "global sourcing." The major objective of the book is to investigate the market performance of various global sourcing strategies employed by multinational firms. Successful Japanese cases are also highlighted. Based on extensive research findings, the book provides practical and normative guidelines for managing new product design and development, manufacturing, and marketing around the world in an era of global competition.

Book Global Supply Chain and Operations Management

Download or read book Global Supply Chain and Operations Management written by Dmitry Ivanov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this textbook comprehensively discusses global supply chain and operations management (SCOM), combining value creation networks and interacting processes. It focuses on operational roles within networks and presents the quantitative and organizational methods needed to plan and control the material, information, and financial flows in supply chains. Each chapter begins with an introductory case study, while numerous examples from various industries and services help to illustrate the key concepts. The book explains how to design operations and supply networks and how to incorporate suppliers and customers. It examines how to balance supply and demand, a core aspect of tactical planning, before turning to the allocation of resources to meet customer needs. In addition, the book presents state-of-the-art research reflecting the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, and emerging, fast-paced developments in the digitalization of supply chain and operations management. Providing readers with a working knowledge of global supply chain and operations management, with a focus on bridging the gap between theory and practice, this textbook can be used in core, specialized, and advanced classes alike. It is intended for a broad range of students and professionals in supply chain and operations management.

Book Global Operations Strategy

Download or read book Global Operations Strategy written by Yeming Gong and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many business schools are teaching Global Operations Strategy with self-made teaching materials, there are no such textbooks. Combining practical approaches with detailed theoretical underpinnings, this book provides theories, tools, frameworks, and techniques for global operations strategy, and brings real world perspectives to students and managers. Each chapter includes definition of key terms, introduction of fundamental theories, several short case examples, one long new case to explain the associated theories, and recommended further reading.

Book Global Sourcing   The Strategic Reorientation of Purchasing

Download or read book Global Sourcing The Strategic Reorientation of Purchasing written by Wolfgang Schneid and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2010-05-08 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,3, Heidenheim University of Cooperative Education, course: International Management, language: English, abstract: "Es ist nicht genug zu wissen, man muß es auch anwenden; Es ist nicht genug zu wollen, man muß es auch tun." Goethe Globalisation of markets progresses rapidly and leads to more competition. In times of Supply Chain Management, Cost Saving Measures and Outsourcing companies have to reorient their business planning. New concepts are necessary to reach a cost efficient production. In this context, globalisation must not only be considered as global selling of own products. With the same effort global logistics and procurement have to be taken into account to gain global success. Global Sourcing is already known as conscious orientation of a purchasing strategy. However, its implementation hasn't gone far yet. Increasing economical interweaving and better technological possibilities make Global Sourcing, even for middle-class companies more relevant than never before. Global Sourcing is more than just buying goods and services in foreign countries. In bounds of company philosophy, efficient strategies have to be developed to ensure international competitiveness. Extending of purchasing options, access to world-wide know-how or even increasing sales of own products are just some features of this concept. Before integrating the Global Sourcing Concept in other company strategies a closer look is necessary. The focus of this term paper remains in showing Global Sourcing as a part of the reorientation of purchasing, determining its features and risks as well as indicating the strategy of Global Sourcing. For not going beyond the scope of this work, I will refrain from exact determination of every single sourcing strategy (Sourcing Toolbox). Even it's not its task to set exact guidelines, concerning the integration into company's strategies. Addition

Book Implementing Strategic Sourcing

Download or read book Implementing Strategic Sourcing written by Christine Bullen and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully. Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on: Foundations of Strategic Sourcing Management, risk, governance and legal considerations Organizational change, innovation and relationship management Transition planning and the end-game Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective Future trends, summary and lessons learned Ultimately this guide will take readers from principles to how to s including: How to develop, implement, manage and govern an effective global sourcing strategy and plan How to put in place policies and processes that can be monitored to provide a balanced approach to sourcing How to build a strategic top-down framework coupled with an operational roadmap How to incorporate bottom-up implementation principles and practices that work How to ensure a coordinated, cost-effective and value-delivery plan and operating environment for strategic and tactical sourcing. In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner: Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices Covers both clients and providers Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific how to details in all chapters Provides a global view of sourcing It comes highly recommended.

Book Global Outsourcing Strategies

Download or read book Global Outsourcing Strategies written by Peter Barrar and published by Gower Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Outsourcing Strategies is a state-of-the-art guide to the best lessons to be learned for successfully implementing and outsourcing projects. The 22 chapters provide information on the different facets of the outsourcing process, such as contract negotiation, the risks involved in outsourcing, the need for service level agreements, the critical requirements needed to build and sustain outsourcing relationships, and ethical supply chain issues. There are also sections exploring the impact of outsourcing on organizational structures; the long term effects; legal issues; management control and inter-firm relationships; as well as case studies from both the public and private sector on the practical side of outsourcing. The book will appeal to practitioners and researchers alike.

Book Global Sourcing Of Services  Strategies  Issues And Challenges

Download or read book Global Sourcing Of Services Strategies Issues And Challenges written by Shailendra C Jain Palvia and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are three stages to outsourcing: The first occurred at the dawn of industrial era in the 19th century, where mass production for consumption by many, became the norm and simple domestic means could not meet such demands. With the cost of labor soaring in developed countries, manufacturing of products started moving to countries like China to take advantage of labor arbitrage in the 1900s. This is the second stage of outsourcing. This book addresses issues and challenges in the third stage of outsourcing whose focus is on movement of services at electronic speed, utilizing the Internet platform.The book includes short essay questions, multiple choice questions, mini-cases at the end of most chapters and glossary of terms. It can also serve as a good reference book for practitioners.

Book Implementing Strategic Sourcing

Download or read book Implementing Strategic Sourcing written by Gad J Selig and published by Van Haren Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative, comprehensive, yet practical guide provides readers with a complete tool-kit of how to approach global sourcing successfully. Based on real world experiences on implementing and sustaining global sourcing the book provides readers with key guidance on: Foundations of Strategic Sourcing Management, risk, governance and legal considerations Organizational change, innovation and relationship management Transition planning and the end-game Successful principles for new business development from a service provider perspective Future trends, summary and lessons learned Ultimately this guide will take readers from ‘principles’ to ‘how to’s’ including: How to develop, implement, manage and govern an effective global sourcing strategy and plan How to put in place policies and processes that can be monitored to provide a balanced approach to sourcing How to build a strategic top-down framework coupled with an operational roadmap How to incorporate bottom-up implementation principles and practices that work How to ensure a coordinated, cost-effective and value-delivery plan and operating environment for strategic and tactical sourcing. In addition, it addresses the following areas in a comprehensive, yet easy to use and practical manner: Integrates strategic and operational concepts and practices Covers both clients and providers Supports the practice of global sourcing by leveraging and integrating professional rigor for best practices Provides practical knowledge, techniques, checklists and methodologies that can be used in any environment globally Includes many examples of current and emerging best practices Is broad and comprehensive, yet drills down to specific ‘how to’ details in all chapters Provides a global view of sourcing It comes highly recommended.

Book Global Supply Chain Management

Download or read book Global Supply Chain Management written by Matt Drake and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to the development of internet- and network-based information and communication systems, virtually every product and service produced today has a supply chain that extends around the globe. For the last twenty-five years, companies such as Wal-Mart, Dell, and Toyota have enjoyed strong competitive advantages in their respective markets as a result of their world-class supply chains. As the supply chain increasingly lengthens, managers at all levels of the organization must understand the unique challenges of working with suppliers and customers located around the world--and the opportunities that can build new competitive advantages. This book will introduce readers at all levels of experience to cutting-edge methods and strategies for global sourcing and global distribution through the discussion of current research and case study vignettes from companies in every corner of the world.

Book International Sourcing

Download or read book International Sourcing written by Daniel Senft and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-09-25 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization leads to increased fierce competition and companies which do not pursue successful global sourcing within the next five years are probably not able to survive. However, global sourcing projects are highly complex and two-thirds of all sourcing projects in Europe are considered to have failed. A tool of ten steps is elaborated to show how to evaluate the success of sourcing by considering the potentials and risks in an international context. Successful managing of international sourcing, however, does not only imply the primary goal to acquire parts cheaply abroad, but it can be seen as a kind of strategic weapon to create a strong market position and to keep the company successful on the long term.

Book Global Sourcing   The reorientation in purchasing

Download or read book Global Sourcing The reorientation in purchasing written by Thomas Drabner and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Business economics - Supply, Production, Logistics, grade: 1,2 (A+), Heidenheim University of Cooperative Education (Economics and International Trade), course: International Management, language: English, abstract: One of the most important economic prerequisites for operating on the market is the efficient procurement of quality goods and services. International orientation is hereby becoming increasingly influential. Due to globalisation the world is to be seen as one single market. The impact of this perspective does not only refer to global sales but to global procurement as well. In terms of an international perspective the term ′Global Sourcing′ has evolved describing the challenging opportunity of supplementing traditional procurement by international complex activities. Worldwide suppliers, worldwide options and the access to global knowledge increase the need for detailed evaluation. Global sourcing hereby aims at ensuring a competitive advantage in terms of procurement politics. Those politics equally contain chances and risks. A variety of suppliers also means a variety of quality standards. International sources require international logistics. Therefore global sourcing is beyond simple international purchasing and rather a general strategic orientation towards international supply markets. Consequently, the focus of this term paper is to determine the strategic orientation of procurement politics towards Global Sourcing on the basis of international supply chain management.

Book E Business Strategy  Sourcing and Governance

Download or read book E Business Strategy Sourcing and Governance written by Gottschalk, Petter and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2005-12-31 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is based on the premise that it is difficult, if not impossible, to manage a modern business or public organization without at least some knowledge of the planning, use, control and benefits of information technology"--Provided by publisher.