SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION UNDER SALES EFFORT FREE RIDING By DAHAI XING Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing‚ China 2004 Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate College of Oklahoma State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY July‚ 2012 COPYRIGHT c By DAHAI XING July‚ 2012 SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION UNDER SALES EFFORT FREE RIDING Dissertation Approved: Dr. Tieming
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Case Write-Up: LEGO Group-An Outsourcing Journey Q1 LEGO’s main expectations and learnings from the relationship with Flextronics LEGO’s main expectation was to optimize its global supply chain by saving cost and reducing production complexity from the cooperation with Flextronics. However‚ the contract between those two lasted for only 3 years. In the end‚ LEGO re-took control of plants in Czech Republic‚ Hungary and opened a new site in Mexico Lessens LEGO received from this unsuccessful
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clarity. Supply Chain Coordination Supply chain coordination issues have been of great interest to researchers for many years especially since 1990s there has been a surge in research in these topics (Burgess et al. 2006). Different perspectives has been proposed on SCC such as “the order‚ forecasting‚ procurement‚ and information sharing procedures among the members of the supply chain” (Therese M. Flaherty‚ 1996) and “SCC is concerned with managing dependencies between various supply chain members
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT TERM PAPER ON FLEXIBILITY IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Submitted by Ashish ROLL NO. 142 SEC-A MBA (IB) - 2009-11 Flexibility in supply chain management Objective of this paper: To show the flexibility in Supply chain management. Flexibility is considered to be an important differentiator in the current market place as well as in the supply chain management. The need for flexibility in SCM and also the little attention is paid to how operational
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Improve Supply Chain Efficiency through a Web-Based System: A Case Study on a Pharmaceutical Company in Thailand Panthip Pothitong Assumption University Email: panthip_pothitong@yahoo.com Chayakrit Charoensiriwath‚ Ph.D. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center Email: chayakrit.charoensiriwath@nectec.or.th Abstract - The supply chain operations in pharmaceutical industry are one of the most complex operations to manage. To efficiently manage the supply chain in this industry‚ information
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Essentials for Information Coordination in Supply Chain Systems Qing Zhang School of Business Administration‚ South Central University for Nationalities Wuhan 430074‚ China Tel: 86-27-6784-3646 E-mail: hust-zq@sohu.com Abstract The supply chain plays an essential role for modern companies to retain their competitive advantages in today ’s business environments. As supply chain members are often separate and independent economic entities‚ a key issue in supply chain management is to develop
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Production Economics 92 (2004) 113–124 Supply chain coordination in buyer centric B2B electronic markets Charles X. Wanga‚*‚ Michel Benarochb a School of Management‚ State University of New York at Buffalo‚ Buffalo‚ NY 14260‚ USA b School of Management‚ Syracuse University‚ Syracuse‚ NY 13210‚ USA Received 1 September 2002; accepted 1 September 2003 Abstract While over the past 4 years more than 1000 B2B electronic markets that cater to a wide spectrum of industries
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Information Sharing in Supply Chain Management Done by : Abrar Al-Ajlan Jaya Sinha Acknowledgement Our special thanks to Dr. Astone for her valuable and consistent support. A foreword Today‚ many businesses are failing owing to the incompetency in achieving an effective supply chain process. Also‚ those who are able to successfully manage the supply chain are not successful just by managing this alone. Rather‚ businesses succeed when they combine other marketing strategies with
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Creating a knowledge sharing culture in organizations today is a norm. Please comment. The most valuable asset with any organization is intellectual capital i.e knowledge. Hence it is inevitable for organizations to create‚ nurture and develop this asset to achieve sustainable advantage in the market. Organizations can leverage the power of knowledge and bring innovation in their product and service offerings‚ achieving higher customer satisfaction‚ higher revenues‚ profits etc. Ultimately
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INFORMATION SHARING IN THE RETAIL SUPPLY CHAIN: TWO CASE STUDIES Tonya Boone and Ram Ganeshan PREVIEW Retail supply chains are complex‚ with each company in the chain having multiple echelons of distribution. Forecasting and requirements planning are further challenged by managers’ reliance on “local” rather than chain-wide retail demand to make key operational decisions. A frequent consequence is the bullwhip effect . Using two case studies‚ Tonya and Ram show how information sharing – both within
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