1 How can postponement of product differentiation be used to improve supply chain profitability? Postponement‚ also known as "delayed differentiation‚" is a supply chain strategy that delays product differentiation at a point closer to the customer. This involves designing and developing standard or generic configurable products that can be customized quickly and inexpensively once actual consumer demand is known. Postponement also entails the implementation of specific inventory strategies to deploy
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OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Vol. 2‚ No. 3‚ September 2009‚ pp. 167-171 ISSN 1979-3561|EISSN 1979-3871 167 Managing Supply Chain Complexity in a Tea Manufacturing Company I Nyoman Pujawan* Department of Industrial Engineering‚ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology‚ Kampus ITS Sukolilo‚ Surabaya 60111 Indonesia E-mail: pujawan@ie.its.ac.id Mahendrawathi Er Department of Information Systems‚ Faculty of Information Technology‚ Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology‚ Kampus
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Supply Chain Management The supply chain differs for a company that sells a physical product such as furniture‚ from that of a company that sells a service such as cellular services. Though both supply chains differ‚ with powerful strategies both companies were able to achieve the same result‚ profits within the organization. Ultimately for any organization‚ the main goal is to increase profits. Improving the supply chain is one way to reach this goal. According to Schneider‚ "When companies integrate
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Sales Rebate Contracts in Fashion Supply Chains1 Chun-Hung CHIUa‚ Tsan-Ming CHOIb‚2‚ Ho-Ting YEUNGb‚ Yingxue ZHAOc a b Sun Yat-Sen Business School‚ Sun Yat-Sen University‚ China. Institute of Textiles and Clothing‚ The Hong Kong Polytechnic University‚ Hung Hom‚ Kowloon‚ Hong Kong c School of International Trade and Economics‚ University of International Business and Economics‚ Beijing 100029‚ P. R. China. First version: July 26‚ 2012; revised: August 31‚ 2012. A paper prepared
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Supply Chain Strategies Integrated Supply Chain Management BUS631 Matthew Keogh This paper shall discuss the concept of supply chain strategies of Hewlett-Packard organization. Strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) is the Hewlett-Packard (HP) supply chain planning‚ analysis‚ and modeling system. “Hewlett-Packard ’s strategic planning and modeling (SPaM) team refined an approach using true optimization coupled with scenario analysis‚ selectively focused on the most
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Introduction Supply chain management‚ is the active management of supply chain activities to maximize customer value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It represents a conscious effort by the supply chain firms to develop and run supply chains in the most effective & efficient ways possible. Supply chain activities cover everything from product development‚ sourcing‚ production‚ and logistics‚ as well as the information systems needed to coordinate these activities. Figure 1 shows the
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Globalization has open doors of opportunities for firms to reach and explore new markets. Now more than ever‚ supply chain management plays a key role for organizational success for those that aim to expand their market reach around the globe. This paper discusses perhaps one of the most excellent organizations when it comes to supply chain management. Zara is known around the world as one of the most successful provider of fashion products. This paper presents a description of supply chain management
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Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/bse.527 Sustainable Supply Chain Management in Tourism Xavier Font‚* Richard Tapper‚ Karen Schwartz and Marianna Kornilaki Leeds Metropolitan University‚ UK ABSTRACT Sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) encapsulates the trend to use purchasing policies and practices to facilitate sustainable development at the tourist destination. Most research has focused on environmental aspects of manufacturing‚ while other aspects of sustainability
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Supply Chain Management (SCM The average company spends nearly half of every dollar it earns on production needs—goods and services it needs from external suppliers to keep producing. A supply chain consists of all parties involved‚ directly or indirectly‚ in the procurement of a product or raw material. Supply chain management (SCM) involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability. In the past
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Diploma in Supply Chain Management Warehouse Management Table of Contents Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3 2) Type of WMS Software…….…………………………………………………………………………………………4 3) Advantage of Warehouse Management System .……………………………………………………..6 4) Disadvantage of Warehouse Management System ………………….………………………………….8 5) Conclusion …………………………………………………………..………………………………………………....11 6) References ……………………………………………………….…………………………………………………..12
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