OF BUSINESS LOGISTICS‚ Vol.24‚ No.2‚ 2003 37 STRATEGIC SUPPLY CHAIN MAPPING APPROACHES by John T. Gardner SUNY Brockport and Martha C. Cooper The Ohio State University Visualizing‚ tracking‚ and managing supply chains all become more complicated as firms pursue outsourcing strategies and as firms’ supply and delivery systems become increasingly global. The authors suggest that not only is there a need to visualize the supply chain‚ there needs to be a well-established process for building the
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Channel coordination through a revenue sharing contract in a two-period newsboy problem Cao To Linh and Yushin Hong Department of Industrial and Management Engineering POSTECH‚ Korea Abstract This paper studies channel coordination through revenue sharing contract between a single retailer and a single wholesaler in a two-period newsboy problem. Two models are discussed‚ a single-buying-opportunity model and a two-buying-opportunity model. We discuss how the revenue sharing ratio
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INTEGRATING THE SUPPLY CHAIN Case Study - Friedland Timbers co. Johann Klassen is the Managing Director of Friedland Timbers co. which makes specialised wood products for the construction industry. He has recently been worried by late deliveries to some important customers. The industry is very competitive‚ and Johann knows that customers will go to other suppliers if he cannot guarantee deliveries. The marketing manager is particularly upset because he has worked with these customers for a
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Note: Solve ANY THREE case studies. CASE I A CASE OF ALPHA TELENET LIMITED Alpha Telecom Ltd.‚ a part of Alpha Group was established in 1976 by its visionary Chairman and Managing Director‚ A. S. Verma. The company started with manufacturing of Electronic Push Button Telephones (EPBT) and Cordless phones in 1985 in Allahabad. On July 7‚ 1995 Alpha Tele-Ventures Limited was incorporated. A mobile service called ’Web-Tel’
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Supply Chain Management in the Pulp and Paper Industry Dick Carlsson Södra Cell International AB‚ SE-351 89 Växjö‚ Sweden Sophie D’Amours FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Alain Martel FOR@C‚ CIRRELT‚ Université Laval‚ G1K 7P4‚ Québec‚ Canada Mikael Rönnqvist The Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration‚ NO-5045 Bergen‚ Norway October 2006 Working Paper DT-2006-AM-3 Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks‚ Logistics and Transportation
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operation is part of a network of suppliers and customers. In this age of international market and competition‚ a company ’s competitiveness rests on its ability to provide desired goods and services. Supply chain management is one of the hot topics in business today. Render (1997) has defines "supply chain management" is the integration of activities that procure materials and services‚ transform them into intermediate goods and final product‚ and deliver them to customers. The strategy is to apply a
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Supply Chain Assignment Maria Blum Supply Chain Management refers to the stages that involves the directly and indirectly processes that delivers a final product. It begins with a customer order; it is followed by procedures depending on the organisation and finishing with a final product. SCM consists of the materials‚ information and funds that will flow within the process in order to provide a lower cost and high degree final product to the customer/consumer. Supply Chain Management
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----Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management---- Case Study: Michelin’s supply chain strategy----- _Case Study:_ Michelin’s supply chain strategy SUBMITTED FROM : DUNCAN HO _CONTENT_ _INTRODUCTION P.3_ _Q1. THE MANUFACTURING STRATEGIES ADOPTED BY MICHELIN IN ORDER TO GAIN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN GLOBAL MARKET._ _P.4_ _Q.2 EVALUATE MICHELIN’S GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT STRATEGY (GSCM)‚ ANY ISSUES THEY NEED TO COPING WITH AND PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. P
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TBS908 SUpply Chain management ASSIGNMENT 1 A review of JY Books Sdn Bhd’s Supply Chain Management practices Executive Summary JY Books Sdn Bhd is a book publisher that is based in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia and publishes specialty books on the topics of Chinese Metaphysics and Geomancy (referred to as Feng Shui). They are primarily involved in publishing books by their founder Joey Yap‚ although they do also publish books by other up and coming Chinese Metaphysics practitioners. Our analysis
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INTRODUCTION SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an essential part of every business. The supply chain of a company is its network consisting of all the companies’ suppliers‚ itself‚ and its customers. Without a successful SCM system‚ no matter how small a company might seem‚ a business cannot successfully operate. The supply chain encompasses every aspect of a business’s operations. It begins with raw materials‚ continues through production phases‚ creating finished goods
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