Achieving Total Economic Benefits From Supply Chain Efficiency |
Companies spend millions wringing every bit of inefficiency from
supply chains. But, there is a hidden trove of efficiency and value
that leading companies are just beginning to consider. |
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Agile and Customized Supply Chains |
Supply chain migration from lean and functional to agile and
customised. |
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Aligning a Misaligned Supply Chain |
Improving supply-chain management to gain a competitive edge. A
misaligned supply chain can lead to higher costs, lower quality and
poor customer service. |
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Consumer Behavior, Supply Chain Management and Customer
Satisfaction: |
An Investigative Study in Small and Medium Enterprises. It appears
that the notions on supply chain management may only be indirectly
associated with the issues surrounding consumer behaviors toward
maintaining and/or otherwise pushing customer satisfaction. |
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Creating Supply Chain Flexibility in the Flattening World |
The forces of globalisation and ever flattening world are exerting
renewed pressure on global supply chains. It is time that
organisations counter supply chain disruptions by building solid
'sense and respond' capabilities. |
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Delivering on Its Promise |
Four cardinal principles for maximizing payback from supply chain
technology investments. |
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E-Business and Supply Chain Integration |
This paper examines the impact of e-business on supply chain
integration on four critical impact of e-business on supply chain
integration on four critical dimensions. |
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Effective Supply Chain Management |
The complexities of getting material ordered, manufactured and
delivered overload most supply chain management (SCM) systems. |
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End-to-End Pull |
Eradicating the "high-inventory-poor-service-level" problem. |
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E-Supply-Chain Management |
Unlocking Value from E-Supply Management. Despite the "e," e-supply
management is about much more than technology. Five steps can help
businesses make the most of their efforts. |
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Financing Supply Chains |
A few farsighted finance executives are managing their supply chain
as a virtual corporation, finding innovative ways to reduce costs
and increase earnings. |
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Finding the hidden costs in broken supply chains |
Despite tariffs dropping to a 30-year low, reform efforts have
stalled in recent years and international trade remains seriously
constrained. A big reason: The inefficiencies and choke-points that
hobble the global supply chain turn out to be a much bigger factor
than government-imposed tariffs in restricting the flow of goods and
services across borders. |
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Flow Manufacturing |
Flow Manufacturing is Essential to Competitive Supply Chain
Management |
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Good, Better, Best: How to Assess Your Supply Chain Performance |
Many companies are not aware of how their supply chains are
performing or even what supply chain they're in. Specific assessment
criteria based on the Six Levels of Supply Chain Excellence and a
strategic assessment methodology can help them determine how their
supply chain is performing and thus plot a course for improvement. |
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Have you 'optimized' excess inventory and lowered costs in your
supply chain? ... |
… Great. But that's only the first step. Get ready to rally the
troops for supply chain versus supply chain. Simplify, collaborate,
adapt. |
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How
Many Supply Chains Do You Need? |
This paper describes a framework for identifying distinct supply
chains within a business and offers a how-to approach for developing
strategies that appropriately align with each supply chain. |
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In
Search of The Right Helping Hand |
For every problem associated with global supply-chain reengineering,
there are thousands of independent consultants eager to help out.
But finding the right one can be a nerve-wracking task. |
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Inbound Supply Chain Development: being in charge beyond the first
supplier interface |
How to develop lean and agile supply chains. As manufacturing
companies shift towards buying on a system level rather than
component level, driven by outsourcing and low cost sourcing
strategy, the inbound supply chain becomes somewhat of a “black box”
with little transparency beyond the first tier supplier interface. |
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Influence of IT on SCM |
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Internet Technology and Transformation of Supply Chains |
Newly emerging e-chains use the internet’s speed, flexibility and
real-time communications to link partners in networked, web-like
structures. |
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Just What Is a 4PL Anyway? |
Consultants and 3PLs agree that there is a real need for a
“supermanager” to run a company’s logistics, knowledge base and IT
systems. |
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Next-Generation Supply Chains Bigger Steps, Smaller Footprints |
Major shifts in global business conditions are radically altering
input costs and risk. In response, companies must realign their
supply chains, including: rethinking product formulation and
packaging, restructuring the supply chain network and footprint, and
realigning the role of suppliers and third parties. |
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Re-Conforming the Supply Chain From Supplier to Customer: Before the
Software |
Now that Supply Chain Management has entered the consciousness of
manufacturing managers, we are experiencing the inevitable rush to
apply a software solution to implementation of a fully integrated
chain of activities from the top to the bottom of the materials
flow. But supply chain management is much more than software. |
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SCM
- Plan to Succeed |
Discusses the prerequisites of supply chain success. |
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Shifting Your Supply Chain into Reverse |
The handling of returned products, often called reverse logistics,
is an often-neglected part of an otherwise efficient supply chain. |
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Strategic marketing in global supply chains: Four challenges |
Superior supply chain management can facilitate marketing strategy
and lead to the creation of superior customer value, satisfaction,
and loyalty, which in turn lead to improved product profit margins,
overall firm profitability, and overall corporate growth. However,
marketing strategy is problematic in global supply chains. |
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Supply Chain Software Investments |
One Size Doesn’t Fit All. About the process of finding the right
software solution |
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Supply Intelligence |
The authors examine supply chain scenarios in which obtaining
complete information about suppliers is costly. In such scenarios,
there is a trade-off between the costs of obtaining information and
the benefits that accrue to the owners of such information. |
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The
Death of Time and Distance |
A holistic approach to supply chain management. 2007 |
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The
Last 100 Feet of the Supply Chain |
Can RFID navigate through the "black hole"? Today, the battleground
for maximization of supply chain performance depends largely on
execution in the last 100 feet—the distance between the receiving
docks of a retail store and its customer checkout counters. |
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The
New Weakest Link in Your Supply Chain: Supplier Credit |
Why Companies Need to Behave More Like Their Own Credit Rating
Agencies. To emerge from the global recession unscathed, companies
should rethink their approach to supply chains by behaving much more
like their own credit rating agencies - and fast. |
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Turn your supply chain into a profitable growth engine |
Transforming a company's supply chain is never easy, but the payoff
can be tremendous. The economics of a full transformation can be
extremely attractive, and the risks, manageable. |
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Value-Oriented Supply Chains |
Delivering what customers expect while keeping profits up. |
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Winning Supply Chains Integrate Today's Capabilities with Tomorrow's
Goals |
Supply chain performance is a measure of competitive advantage—both
immediate and long term. |
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Deconstructing the Supply Chain |
Link by link, country by country, global supply chains are today
under increased scrutiny as more companies advance new
approaches for monitoring and managing global risk. 2008 |
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Operations Risk & Supply Chain Design: An Event Study |
This empirical study provides evidence linking supply chain
strategy and company risk structure. An event study on the stock
performance of four major PC producers is performed focusing on
the 1999 earthquake in Taiwan and the computer memory price
increases that ensued. |
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Perspectives in Supply Chain Risk Management: A Review |
To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented
various initiatives such as outsourced manufacturing and product
variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable
environment, but they could make a supply chain more vulnerable
to various types of disruptions caused by uncertain economic
cycles, consumer demands, and natural and man-made disasters. |
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Prepare to Bounce Back - The Importance of Incorporating
Resilience into the Supply Chain |
The continuous drive to lower supply chain costs will continue
to increase any company’s risk exposure, but with some
forethought, risk does not need to threaten extinction. |
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Putting Out Supply-Chain Fires |
Find the extinguisher, because they're almost inevitable. |
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Supply Chain Risk Management: A Delicate Balancing Act |
A multi-faceted view on managing riskin a globally integrated
enterprise. Risks with respect to a company’s supply chain have
begun to receive attention only more recently, as the push to
increase supply chain efficiencies has illuminated the delicate
balance between financial considerations and those of the
customer. |
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Supply Chain Risks in Remote Locations |
Assess supply chain risks early when making offshore investment
decisions. |
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The Mitigation of Supply Chain Risk |
Supply Chain Risk mitigation can not be seen as an “after
thought” or “add on” to the supply chain. To be cost effective
supply chain risk mitigation needs to be built into the supply
chain process |
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