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Showing 1 to 20 of 504 for “"supply chain management"”.
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Aerospace supply chain management
… Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.
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Sustainability Strategies in Supply Chain Management
… practice and literature of strategic sustainable supply chain management by examining its four aspects: measure, manage, mitigate, and market. The purpose of this dissertation is to utilize a multi-method approach and multiple secondary data sources to examine sustainable supply chain management …
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Supply chain management in the cement industry
Traditionally supply chain management has played an operational role within cement and mineral extraction commodity companies. Recently, cost reduction projects have brought supply chain management into the limelight. In order to clarify the reasons of the evolution of supply chain management and …
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Use of weather data in supply chain management
Decision making in the supply chain can be a difficult process. Forecasts are often used to predict demand since it is important to maintain the balance between keeping inventory to minimal levels and losing consumers due to inventory shortage. Weather inherently affects people and their behavior, …
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Four Essays on Inventory and Supply Chain Management
Inventory and supply chain management are key research areas in operations management. In the first chapter, we generalize classic maximin and minimax regret models (Scarf 1958, Perakis and Roels 2008) of the distributionally robust Newsvendor problem, creating data driven models for censored …
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Roles of Information Technology in Supply Chain Management
<p>Supply Chain Information Technology (SCIT) is a key enabler of effective supply chain management (SCM) activities. In 2013, $300 billion was spent on SCIT by firms globally, an increase by 1.8% and 3.8% compared to 2012 and 2011, respectively. With such significant investments, firms face risks …
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Pulling a job shop into supply chain management
… in six months by consolidating redundant supply chains, changing from a make-to-stock to a make-to-order process, and changing from material resource planning to pull production. The inventory reduction increased the inventory turns from less than two to over four turns per year. Strategic …
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Service supply chain management : a hierarchical decision modeling approach
A Service Supply Chain (SSC) may be described as a network of service provider facilities (in-house or outsourced), each of which is able to process one or more service tasks on an as needed basis. Two key characteristics of a SSC are (i) the business service is decomposable into several sequential …
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Supply Chain Management: Supplier Financing Schemes and Inventory Strategies
… between supplier financing schemes and inventory management. Traditionally, retailers finance their inventories through an independent financing institution or by drawing from their own cash reserves, without any supplier involvement (Independent Financing). However, suppliers may reduce their …
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Tax implications of transfer pricing on supply chain management
… globalisation has lead to centralised risk management and decision-making in multinational enterprises, which gives rise to the principle of tax efficient supply chain management and the need to focus on the integration of tax considerations into the multinational's supply chain. In order to …
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Three Essays in Supply Chain Management With Demand Dependencies
… Chapter 2 models extended warranty design in a supply chain setting, where the extended warranty demand is dependent on the primary product demand. Clearly, only the consumers who buy the product are potential candidates for purchasing the extended warranty. Thus, the maximum demand for the …
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Supply chain management for low-volume, high-variation manufacturing
… company that is experiencing issues managing its supply chain. Issues include lack of process ownership, poor requirements flow down to vendors, and an ineffective supplier selection process. This example uses a systematic approach for addressing re-occurring problems related to supply chain …
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Smart contracts and their application in supply chain management
Blockchain is a distributed ledger technology that records exchanges of value between parties securely, permanently, and in an easily verifiable manner. It is the technology underlying cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Although initially used for financial transactions, blockchain's …
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New approaches for integrating revenue and supply chain management
… requests to serve. Unlike traditional revenue management models that have sunk costs, we assume there are supply chain costs that depend on the demand being served. Specifically, customers arrive in an online manner, each with a set of requirements and associated revenue, and are either …
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Supply chain management in the dry bulk shipping industry
This paper is intended to show the importance of supply chain management in the dry-bulk shipping industry. A hypothetical company, the Texas Grain and Bakery Corporation, was created. The values and calculations used are artificial but representative of the industry. A well defined fleet analysis …
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Information technology as competitive advantage in supply chain management
… Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Management of Technology Program, 1998.
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Essays on Risk Mitigation Methods in Global Supply Chain Management
… risk mitigation methods in the area of global supply chain management. Recent economic uncertainties such as the U.S. credit and the Greek debt crises, and natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami create a greater amount of uncertainty and risk for global supply chain operations. The goal …
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From Principles to Practice: Sustainable Supply Chain Management in SMEs
Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is an evolving discipline, and incorporates the environmental and social performance dimensions of sustainability with the traditional measure of economic performance; current SSCM research indicates a skew towards economic performance and its interaction …
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Supply Chain Management Practices in Thai SMEs: Antecedents and Outcomes
… world, competition arises between integrated supply chains rather than at the firm level. Therefore, effective supply chain management (SCM) is a key driver of sustainable competitive advantage. However, Thai SMEs have issues in adopting supply chains in their organisations. They have doubts …
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