Economics 89 (2004) 353–361 Supply chain management survey of Swedish manufacturing firms Jan Olhager*‚ Erik Selldin Department of Production Economics‚ Linkoping Institute of Technology‚ SE-581 83 Linkoping‚ Sweden . . Received 15 April 2002; accepted 16 January 2003 Abstract Supply chain management practices and principles are evolving and changing rapidly‚ e.g. through modern information and communication technologies. These changes affect the ways supply chains are designed‚ the way they are
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Mango ’s fast growth fueled by supply chain and focus Marcel Planellas‚ secretary general of the Esade business school‚ describes the Mango fashion retail chain‚ as “gazelle-like‚” because it has grown so quickly. The fashion retail chain opened its doors in 1984 when two brothers‚ Isaac and Nahman Andic launched the first Mango store in Barcelona. Less than 25 years later‚ there are 1‚114 Mango stores on the leading shopping streets of big cities in more than 90 countries. It is now‚ according
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Zara is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega. Zara is the most internationalized of Inditex’s chains. The group is headquartered in A Coruna‚ Spain‚ where the first Zara store opened in 1975. As of August 2009‚ there are more than 1‚500 Zara stores around the world. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores‚ compared with a six-month industry average‚ and launches around 10‚000 new designs each year. Zara
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR SMALL AND RURAL SUPPLIERS AND MANUFACTURERS Christy Geiger Joel Honeyman Frank Dooley Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute North Dakota State University Fargo‚ ND 58105 March 1997 Disclaimer The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors‚ who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy of the information presented herein. This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation‚
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competitors? Zara’s value proposition is ‘low-cost but high fashion’ together with the opportunity of having a new piece of clothing considered as ‘unique’ -that won’t be in the shop for more than 2 or 3 weeks. On short‚ as well the title of this paper states: ‘Responsive‚ High speed‚ Affordable fashion’. Stores are managed as small business‚ vertical communication and supply chain‚ so each manager knows exactly the demand and specific request‚ model and colour. This is a way of increasing efficiency
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Supply Chain Management Adel Abou Heneidy Learning objectives To develop understanding of the following key areas and their interrelationships: * Basic concepts of logistics and supply chain management * The strategic role of a supply chain * The key strategic drivers of supply chain performance * Analytic methodologies for supply chain analysis 2 Supply Chain Management Adel Abou Heneidy Highlights: • • • • • • • • Understanding the Supply Chain Supply Chain performance: achieving strategic
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years‚ with net benefits over sales of close to 12% in the same period. In this paper we examine Zara’ production and distribution systems‚ looking for clues to its mass-customization capabilities. We argue that the key to Zara’ success is its Supply Chain (network and flows) approach. The production network is made of a tightly integrated net of product specialized factories‚ intensive in capital and run under Toyota’s principles‚ and a secondary network of over 400 micro enterprises‚ tightly controlled
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Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. Mariapaz D. Ruiz University of Phoenix MBA 550 Supply Chain: Nike‚ Inc. The supply chain plays a critical role in the transformation and global growth of a company especially in the current economic situation. The global supply chain is the transformation flow linking the raw materials‚ parts suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ and service support operations into products and services and distributing these products locally for consumers (Chase
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Supply Chain relationships and Supply Chain dynamics are topics that are closely related to each other. A discussed in Russell and Taylor (pgs. 426-427)‚ the bullwhip effect is a prevalent dynamic in supply chain management. Methods to decrease the bullwhip effect include: increased information sharing and coordinated forecasting. As has been noted before‚ the clothing company Zara is a good example of a well-designed supply chain system. Zara has been able to successfully keep information flow
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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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