Supply Chain Management at Dalmia Cements Synopsis Dalmia Cement Limited is a 60-year old company with the cement division contributing around 85% of its revenues. The cement manufacturing plant is located in Dalmiapuram from where it is transported to 7 regional depots‚ with each depot serving 1 zone. The company operates in only two states—Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Excess capacities in the northern and western regions are likely to result in price erosion in the south as well. Given the fact
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Resilient Supply Chain Introduction In the recent years many disasters and catastrophic events such as hurricane Mitch‚ tsunamis‚ SARS‚ terrorist attacks and earthquakes have shown that we live in world with increasing uncertainty. These events can cause major disruptions in the supply chain. Although similar events have occurred‚ since the terrorist attacks of September 11 of 2001 the firms began to reassess the benefits of commonly accepted strategies for sourcing‚ transportation‚ demand
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Contents Abstract………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2 Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 Importance of Green Supply Chain……………...................................................................................3 Political‚ Economic and Consumer concern…………………………………………………………..4 Critical drivers for companies to adopt GSC………………………………………………………….5 The Green Network and emission Control……….....................................................................
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Journal of Supply Chain management and other Business issues BASF Case Study Challenges in Supply Chain Management Thomas Schuster‚ Daan Cramer‚ Niek Nigg‚ Bart van Gorp‚ Myrthe Jansen‚ Alla Lashmanova‚ under the supervision of Dr. Peter Bollen University College Maastricht Business Press‚ Universiteit Maastricht Zwingelput 4‚ 6220 MD Maastricht Abstract. This paper primarily discusses and analyzes theories and implications of supply chain management. A case study of the German chemical company
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Improving the supply chain performance moldovan vasilie ‚ MD mail : moldovan@artelecom.net Table of Contents Abstract ..............................................................................................................3 Short description of the company ....................................................................
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IT POLICIES AND ISSUES : CASE STUDY Focus on Technology – Haworth Overhaul Supply Chain Management INFO 7110 GROUP 2: Br. Lokman Effendi Ramli‚ Br. Masripan Salleh‚ Dr. Abdullah Al-Hajjaji‚ Sis. Siti Zarinah Salmo 1.0 Introduction: Haworth Incorporated was the world’s second largest designer and manufacturer of office furniture and workplaces. It operates in more than 120 countries‚ with 9‚000 employees‚ 40 manufacturing locations‚ 60 showrooms and more than 600 dealers around the world
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strategy in the logistic and supply chain management. This report divides the distribution strategies into four parts to analyse it comprehensively. There are centralized and decentralized decision-making management strategy‚ cross-docking strategy‚ postponement strategy and outsourcing strategy. Firstly‚ it introduces the centralized and decentralized decision-making management for distribution. It is mainly focus on the comparison of two kinds of the decision-making management and their advantages
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (MGT 403) Instructor: Saba Rana Term: Spring‚ 13 Course Objective: The goal of this course is to cover high-level supply chain strategies and concepts while introducing the analytical tools necessary to solve supply chain problems. As the function of supply chain management is to design and manage the processes‚ assets‚ and flows of material and information required to satisfy customers’ demands. Supply
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Risk management of Mass customization in Supply Chain Management Ching-Hua Huang‚ Cai Wei‚ Lam Shan Kong‚ Ching-Hsin Lee‚ Po-Chun Chen‚ Faculty of Business‚ Economics & Law‚ University of Queensland‚ Australia Key words: Risk management‚ Supply chain‚ Mass customization Abstract Companies nowadays have faced critical issues on managing the supply chain system and how to make it work smoothly is the main goal that is willing to pursue. This article is going to identify the risks
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* Supply Chain Management In IBM: * Early 1990’s: decentralized geographic and functional departments * Mid-late 1990’s: Distribution and logistics functions centralized into a global organization with world-wide responsibility * Early 2000’s: merger of Customer Fulfillment‚ Procurement‚ Manufacturing‚ and Global Logistics/Distribution functions into a new global Integrated Supply Chain function * Result: cost savings of $5.6B in 2002 and $7B in 2003 * A Case study
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