JOURNAL 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
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296 The International Arab Journal of Information Technology‚ Vol. 5‚ No. 3‚ July 2008 Developing Approaches of Supply Chain Management Systems of Enterprises in Pakistan Danish Irfan1‚ 2‚ Xu Xiaofei1‚ and Deng Sheng Chun1 1 School of Computer Science and Engineering‚ Harbin Institute of Technology‚ China 2 Department of Computer Science‚ COMSATS Institute of Information Technology‚ Pakistan Abstract: This paper identifies the problems of pakistani enterprises concerning supply chain
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+ + 2 What is A Supply Chain? ! The system of suppliers‚ manufacturers‚ transportation‚ distributors‚ and vendors that exists to transform raw materials to final products and supply those products to customers. ! That portion of the supply chain which comes after the manufacturing process is sometimes known as the distribution network. Introduction to Supply Chain Management IEE 534 Supply Chain Modeling & Analysis Lecture Slides Dr. Esma S. Gel 1 + 3 A typical
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Chapter 1 An overview of logistics Economic impacts of logistics Economic utility (the value or usefulness of a product in fulfilling customer needs or wants) 4 general types: * Possession utility : the value or usefulness that comes from a customer being able to take possession of a product * Form utility : a product’s being in a form that can be used by the customer and is of value to the customer(allocation; smaller quantities that are desired by customers) * Place utility :having
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tighter and customer satisfaction becomes even more important‚ it makes sense to create cooperative efforts between suppliers and retailers in order to leverage the knowledge of both parties‚ VMI is one of the best practices in this world‚ and also in SCOR (P1‚ P2‚ P4‚ S1.1‚ S2.1‚ S3.3‚ ES.7‚ D1‚ D1.5‚ D1.6‚ D2.5‚ D2.6‚ D3.5‚ D3.6) as the supplier takes responsibility for the operational management of the inventory within
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POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES BATAAN BRANCH AFAB‚ MARIVELES‚ BATAAN BULLYING AFFECTS PERSONALITY Ms. Raquel Castillo Instructor Estores‚ Mon Lester Barsomo‚ Benedick Parojenog‚ Nicole Fajardo‚ Renniel Destreza‚ Rommel Researchers CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION A. BACKGROUND OF STUDY If you have anything really valuable to
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Retail Loyalty Programs Loyalty Programs in retail : An overview What is a loyalty program ? Loyalty programs are the schemes designed with an intention to retain existing customers and attract new customers by rewarding a customer with both hard and soft benefits for his loyalty and patronage. Classification Loyalty programs (either on the shop delivery ’ or web based ’) can be classified either based on types of rewards and recognition tools used or the mechanism by which customers earn
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Systems Planning: A Review‚ Information Resources Management Association International Conference‚ May 21-24‚ Atlanta. SIIA. (2001). Software as a Service: Strategic Backgrounder. Software & Information Industry Association. <http://www.siia.net/estore/pubs/SSB-01.pdf> Wikipedi Wikipedia. (2010). Recruitment. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruitment> Wikipedia Wikipedia. (2011b). Human Resource Management System. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_resource_management_systems>
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CASE STUDY Zara The case describes how Zara‚ operating out of the Galician port of La Coruña in north-west Spain has managed to become a benchmark for speed and flexibility in the garment industry. The case offers an illustration of a fast-response global supply‚ production and retail network. In 2003 Zara was the only retailer that could deliver garments to its stores worldwide (507 in 33 countries) in just fifteen days after they were designed. It could do that because of its unique systems
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Chapter !‚ What is “operations”? Production and delivery of goods and services What is “management”? Plan Implement Control Essential business functions Marketing Finance Operations Important terminology Tier‚ echelon Customer versus consumer Upstream versus downstream Inbound versus outbound Consumer demand versus derived demand All demand is derived from consumers Demand originates from consumers (individual wants and needs) It propagates as derived demand along the
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