supply chains

Description In 2009, Canada ranked ninth among OECD countries with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $46,243,1 a measurement generally used to compare societies’ standards of living. That same year, our main trading partner, the United States, ranked third with a per capita GDP of...

Description It presents a learning-based approach as an effective way of engaging members of the supply chain, working with 'messy problems' (those that are complex, hard to define and involve many people and issues), and embedding change in policies and practice. S US TAI NAB I L I T Y I N S...

Description The study explores how organizations competing in the personal computers (PCs) industry can manage a dual business model comprised of the forward supply chain of brand new products and the reverse supply chain of end-of-life (EOL) equipment, in order to maximize their profitability...

Description This report are principally directed towards sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) where the lack of farm power and appropriate machinery is having a deleterious effect on rural livelihoods. The farm power and machinery supply chain1 includes a range of stakeholders from manufacturers and...

Description A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities involve the transformation of natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished...

Description Supply chain optimisation is now a major research theme in process operations and management. A great deal of research has been undertaken on facility location and design, inventory and distribution planning, capacity and production planning and detailed scheduling. Only a small...

Description Supply chain management involves the selection, coordination and motivation of independently operated suppliers. The central planner’ perspective in operations management translates poorly to vertically separated chains, where suppliers recurrently seem to object to benevolent...

Description Supply Chain Management (SCM) and shows that supply chains in some shape or form are required to deliver products and services that either we - or our organisation - need or think are needed. For every business transaction there is a supplier and a customer and there are activities...

Description A supply chain is a system of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. Supply chain activities involve the transformation of natural resources, raw materials, and components into a finished...

Description Supply chain units are connected by both physical and in- formation ows. Electronic services are used to perform a large part of activities in modern supply chains. The traditional supply chain configuration models pay the main attention to optimization of the physical flows...

Description Cost reduction is among the most cited objectives in supply chain management. Additionally, if costs are to be reduced, companies increasingly turn their attention to their supply chain partners, so both suppliers and customers reach out for new frontiers of competitiveness and...

Description Using transaction cost analysis, gap analysis and the key dimensions of long-term buyer–seller relationships (satisfaction, trust and power-dependence), it is possible to demonstrate that the supply chain for potatoes cultivated in the Red River Delta (Vietnam) is surprisingly...

Description Supply chain management is likely to play an important role in the digital economy. In this paper, we first describe major issues in traditional supply chain management. Models for Supply Chains in E-Business Jayashankar M. Swaminathan • Sridhar R. Tayur Kenan-Flagler Business...

Description Retailers face many challenges: time-to-market reductions are necessary due to shorter and shorter product life cycles, greater product variety causing more fluctuation in demand calls for high responsiveness in supply chains, and the ever increasing need for shorter lead times...

Description The purpose of this thesis is to describe logistics collaboration in supply chains. During the past two decades, a new trend towards integration and collaboration in supply chains has been recognised among researchers as well as among business practitioners. Dissertations from the...

Description The idea of factors of production is typically used as an explanation for income as duly paid to owners of each means of production and also to the workers themselves within capitalism. ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: INTEGRATED PRODUCTION-DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULING IN SUPPLY CHAINS...

Description Evaluation is often used to characterize and appraise subjects of interest in a wide range of human enterprises, including the arts, criminal justice, foundations, non-profit organizations, government, health care, and other human services. doc_237592695.pdf

Description There are a variety of supply chain models, which address both the upstream and downstream sides. ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: INTEGRATED PRODUCTION-DISTRIBUTION SCHEDULING IN SUPPLY CHAINS Guruprasad Pundoor, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Zhi-Long...