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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Supply Chain Integration"”.
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The convergence of supply chain integration and electronic commerce
… economy: competition, customers, and change. Supply chain integration seeks to achieve optimal performance of the supply chain as a whole by finding the appropriate balance of "focused" excellence and process coordination. Successfully overcoming the corporate silos of the industrial age …
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Analysis of Steel Decarbonization Strategies and Supply Chain Integration
… hydrogen network is created to assess supply chain needs. From this analysis, we can identify key cost and logistic barriers to technology implementation and the impact on the steel industry in respective locations. Finally, the future of the steel industry is assessed from a strategic …
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Supply chain integration : analysis framework and review of recent literature
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1995.
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Behavioral Aspects of Supply Chain Integration: Macro and Micro Level Perspectives
Supply chain integration (SCI) among customers and suppliers is widely touted as a panacea that can resolve a variety of supply chain challenges and create new opportunities. Yet, there is little understanding about SCI. My first research question pertains to identifying the idiosyncratic …
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Knowledge-based SOA framework for improved supply chain integration and delivery
Supply chains are everywhere that people do business, from a single market stall by the side of a road to a multinational corporation. Wherever there are goods and services that need to be used in a scheduled way to create a product that will be sold. The problem that this thesis addresses is to …
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Key supply chain integration factors for success of medical device startups
… such as: market scope, financial support, supply chain integration, patent protection, regulatory compliance, founders experience and more. This thesis investigates supply chain integration factors contributing to the success of medical device startups. Sixteen key supply chain integration …
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Organizational Identification and Supply Chain Orientation: Examining a Supply Chain Integration Paradox
<p>The current approach to operationalizing supply chain management relies on the premise that there are stages in which an organization extends internal integration to external integration by means of implementing integrative mechanisms. Although important developments have been made in …
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Managing the defense industry transition to performance-based practices and supply chain integration
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Supply Chain Integration: A Case-based Investigation of Status, Barriers, and Paths to Enhancement.
In a global marketplace supply chain integration is recognised to be one of today's competitive advantages; where the aim is to optimise material- and information-flows inside the focal company and also across supply chain companies. However, many academics report that such supply chain excellence …
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Drivers of Supply Chain Integration and the Role of Organizational Culture: Empirical Evidence from Indonesia
The increasing emphasis on integration among members of a supply chain has led to new mechanisms to help firms coordinate the flow of products, services, and information through the supply chain. Many studies support the importance and influence of supply chain integration on firm performance but …
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The nexus between building information modelling implementation strategies, adoption, and levels of construction supply chain integration in South Africa
… available on construction projects for ensuring integration and collaboration among the Building Information Modelling- Supply Chain Members (BIMSCM). Scholars adduce the lack of adoption of BIM on construction projects to the use of ineffective BIM implementation strategies. Therefore, this …
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Factors that influence strategic alignment of Information Technology for Supply Chain Integration: Perceptions of Nigerian Medium-sized Manufacturing Enterprises and their suppliers
… in the manufacturing industry to achieve supply chain integration. There are factors which can pose threats to the success of supply chain integration and lead to alignment failure. Therefore, if and how medium-sized enterprises can achieve alignment to realise supply chain integration is …
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The effect of organization centralization, organization climate, knowledge management and supply chain integration perception on the success of product launch in the U.S. automotive industry
… climate, knowledge management, and supply chain integration perception on the success and effectiveness of a product launch. The survey samples consisted of 101 respondents from automotive companies. Organization centralization perception, where decisions are made solely by upper …
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Innovation diffusion within the supply chain : a study of Chinese apparel firms in Shenzhen
Supply chain management directly affects corporate performance. Today's supply chain management is vastly different from what it was a decade ago; nowadays, developing and implementing a networked, flexible supply chain that integrates all partners-manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, carriers, and …
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Enabling supply chain cooperation with information sharing
… whether it can fulfill Raytheon's external supply chain coordination needs as well. VBS was successfully upgraded to allow supplier access over Citrix; the next step is to conduct a pilot implementation to test the system in practice. As a "homegrown" system, VBS can be made to do nearly …
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Modeling order guidelines to improve truckload utilization
… reduce their carbon footprint through greater supply chain integration. This thesis describes the impact of ordering guidelines on the transport efficiency of a large firm and how those guidelines and associated practices can be changed in order to gain better efficiency. To that end, we …
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Application of the Copy Exact methodology to systems implementation
… Exact methodology to implement factory level supply chain integration package across its 12 worldwide manufacturing facilities. The decision to apply Copy Exact during implementation of the DSi2 system at Dell yielded significant benefits for the cost, speed, stability, and sustainability of …
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How to use lean thinking to improve knowledge management performance of manufacturing supply chains
… management performance in manufacturing supply chains. In order to achieve this aim, this research examines the causal relationships between Knowledge Management Processes (KMPs), 4 Lean-KM Wastes and 2 Lean-KM Principles in different countries, industries and company sizes. This thesis …
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Sustainable firm performance of green supply chain management practice at petrochemical industry
… sustainability it is a need to have Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) model toward petrochemical industry sustainability in line with the Green Industry Long Run Strategic Plan in Indonesia. This study aimed at exploring the relationship between internal and external GSCM practices on …
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