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Agility is the inevitable trend of supply chain and management. Agile supply chain forces the enterprise to adapt to the unpredictable market demand, takes the fast restructuring of dynamic alliance as the basic point, promotes the cooperation and the production mode between enterprises, and enhances enterprise's integrated management and economic efficiency. As a key component of the supply chain...
Supply chain flexibility assessment (SCFA) has been considered as a major determinant of competitiveness in world class manufacturing. The environmental issues as well as speed, variety, flexibility and integration in production line come along with customer relationship and mass customization concept should come to light in today's research studies. To achieve competitive edge, companies must align...
Both SCM (supply chain management) and MRP (material requirements planning) are advanced management patterns. How to coordinate the inventories of the plants in order to optimize the performance of the entire supply chain is the focus of research. But the recent researches focus on the supply chain based on the single product, the researches about the supply chain based on the BOM is few. This paper...
The automation of negotiation among buyers and suppliers has provided cutting-edge knowledge on scientific approaches to the management of supply networks. Concentrating on information flow and cooperation among echelons, studies have designed coordination mechanisms for a two-echelon supply chain: buyers and suppliers. However, quantitative investigations are hardly found that take into account the...
It is well known that the most powerful actors in the supply chain are clients. If the market stops buying products because of a weak environmental performance, the rest of the supply chain is left with one option: address the problem and increase the perceived environmental performance of their products. Great deal of studies in many fields (psychology, sociology, environmental studies, marketing,...
Now reverse logistics is practiced in many industries and many companies call back EOL products. In practice, not all the types of EOL products can be reused, that the companies are unwilling to call back but also do great harm to the environment. At this time, the government's regulatory role seems to be especially important. In this paper, we address the quantitative description on the government...
Real time available-to-promise (ATP) system is an important enterprise management tool which directly influences company performance such as customer service and enterprise profit. Therefore, this study investigates a real time ATP model that has been established based on our collaborative manufacturing system (CMS) lab. An ant colony optimization based dynamic promising rule (ACO-DPR) is proposed...
Supply chain management has become method to gain the competitive advantage. Supplier selection is one of the most important aspects. Firstly, the paper reviews many literatures in supplier selection. Then, it introduces the AHP theory and application procedure in supplier selection. Finally, a case that a company applies the AHP to select its supplier is studied.
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