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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"Supply network"”.
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Strategic Models in Supply Network Design
… introduce strategic modeling techniques into the network design problem. While investment in production capacity has long been approached as a critical strategic decision, the increasing need for robust, responsive supply capabilities has made it essential to take a network view, where multiple …
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A supply network resiliency assessment framework
Supply chain resiliency is a relatively new field within supply chain management. Many quantitative and qualitative resiliency frameworks are available. However, there is a need for a hybrid framework that provides a more comprehensive resiliency assessment. In this thesis, we attempt to synthesize …
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Default Risk in the Automotive Supply Network
… risks are internalized by firms in the car-part supply network in their decisions to form new business relationships. Choosing to be agnostic about the process of contract-offer arrivals to a supplier from car manufacturers, I first use reduced-form evidence to exhibit the pattern of network …
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Measuring the value of a responsive supply network
… initiatives to improve the responsiveness of its supply network. The impact of these initiatives on the supply network is measured through a few Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). LargeCo has invested in a responsive supply chain so that it can respond swiftly to unpredictable market demand and …
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Aftermarket vehicle hybridization : designing a supply network for a startup company
Our thesis introduces a supply chain framework catered for startup companies. Startup companies face unique circumstances such as constraints on financial and human resources, and greater uncertainty in demand. From our work with XL Hybrids, a startup company that hybridizes aftermarket vehicles, …
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Application of a Blockchain Enabled Model in Disaster Aids Supply Network Resilience
… amounts. The success of the disaster response network is based on collaboration, coordination, sovereignty, and equality in relief distribution. Therefore, a reliable dynamic communication system is required to facilitate the interactions, enhance the knowledge for the relief operation, …
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A Representation of Tactical and Strategic Precursors of Supply Network Resilience Using Simulation Based Experiments
<p>Modern supply chains are becoming increasingly complex and are exposed to higher levels of risk. Globalization, market uncertainty, mass customization, technological and innovation forces, among other factors, make supply networks more susceptible to disruptions (both those that are man-made …
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Supply chain resilience : a case study analysis of a supply network in a developing country context
In recent years, building Supply Chain Resilience (SCRES) has gained considerable interest as the best way firms can face up to disruptions and gain a competitive advantage. The need for more empirical work on SCRES is well expressed in the literature, but there are few prior empirical studies on …
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Outlining a future of supply chain management-coordinated supply networks
… partners across multiple tiers of a single supply chain - defined as the supply network. The study is based on a deductive model of three dimensions of coordination, corresponding to the information, material, and financial dependencies between organizations in a supply network. This …
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Efficient supply chain design for highly-perishable foods
To be competitive, businesses must make supply network design decisions, but often with only limited information and under uncertain conditions. How can an organization understand trade-offs between supply network decisions, without relying on complex, black-box models that require extensive data …
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Analyzing the accountability, systems and efficiency of demand planning processes in a consumer products environment
… like P&G strive to achieve a consumer driven supply network, the value of forecast accuracy comes into question. Many companies push for faster cycle times and shorter supply chains, driving towards make-to-order production. These trends may appear to reduce the importance of forecasts. …
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Developing Low Carbon Supply Networks: Influence, Measurement, and Improvement
… From a theoretical perspective, low-carbon supply networks research is also still in its infant stage and needs more explorations and development. Therefore this research aims to address the research question: “How can supply networks in developing countries be developed to reduce carbon …
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BUYER-SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS: A CASE INVESTIGATION IN THE RUG AND TEXTILE INDUSTRY
<p>Researchers in supply chain management emphasize the importance of identifying nexus suppliers that may be hidden from focal buyers. These suppliers are distinguished from strategic suppliers by their interorganizational relationships and supply network positions. The nexus supplier framework …
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THE DIFFUSION OF CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY IN GLOBAL SUPPLY NETWORKS: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES
… organizations, and became globally dispersed networks of independent buyers and suppliers, where each of these firms performs specific value-adding activities that will ultimately result in that value chain’s final output. As concerns over the negative social and environmental impacts caused …
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Framework for the study of governance in the supply networks : Wal-mart : "Enlightened Despot" model
… been conducted on the topic of collaboration in supply chain management, but the more general topic of governance in supply networks has never truly been addressed. This research proposes to achieve three connected objectives. The first objective is to define the concepts of governance and supply …
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Integrated supply and production network design
… that eliminates waste through integration of its supply and production networks. The current manufacturing system is optimized for high volume products with low demand variation signals, and is used for all products regardless of demand characteristics. The effects of such a system on the supply …
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Process Modeling, Performance Analysis and Configuration Simulation in Integrated Supply Chain Network Design
Supply chain management has been recently introduced to address the integration of organizational functions ranging from the ordering and receipt of raw materials throughout the manufacturing processes, to the distribution and delivery of products to the customer. Its application demonstrates that …
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Lean production, subcontracting, and industrial development: The case of the Brazilian automobile industry
… of production decisions throughout the supply network. The principal firm delegates production and product development to its suppliers, who become specialists in components or subassemblies of the final product. There may be many such tiers of principal-subcontractor relations. …
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