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This paper takes a practical case study approach to demonstrate the genetic algorithm (GA)'s ability to help purchasing manager in making a better decision on procurement of products or materials. The GA implemented in the supplier selection function aims to allow purchasing managers to get better decisions in choosing the appropriate suppliers by choosing the appropriate products under various contextual...
Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that us leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today's supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationship among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared...
The supply chain (SC) will be considered as a competitive strategy and one of the most useful methods by which companies can deliver products to customers effectively, all aspects of great are really importance to companies. However, each company has its own business scale and market areas, the supply chain model must vary to accommodate those dissimilarities. The contributions of the paper are three-fold:...
The paper seeks to investigate whether the span of inter-organizational structure may contribute to the “knock-on effect” manifesting the transmission of disruptions in supply chains. In order to achieve this goal, the link of the span of supply chain structure and the transmission of disruptions is revealed. The theoretical framework of the “knock-on effect” is evidenced by cross-sector findings...
Traditional management frameworks that have been applied to governance of systems are no longer effective in the context of systems of systems. To provide an effective governance framework for a system of systems, it is necessary to understand the governance mechanism in its entirety, including its fundamental components, or pillars.
Product lifecycle data is considered valuable resource to improve quality of product designing. However, at present, under the environment of E-manufacturing, product data is scattered across different companies during product lifecycle. Because enterprise information systems are heterogeneous, it becomes a challenging task managing product lifecycle data through the complete supply chain. In this...
With the increased focus on optimizing procurement processes, different procurement concepts have been developed. However, for these concepts no widely accepted best practice solutions exist. Furthermore, customers often impose specific conditions on suppliers. Thus implementations of these concepts are always different. Consequently suppliers cannot provide standardized services (e.g. Vendor Managed...
Green supply chain, in this time and age, is the one of the most prevalent topics in the supply chain management. Meanwhile the conceptions and the measurements of green supply chain play a significant role in the certain fields (e.g., such as environmental protection, sustainable development of economy, to enhance the products in the international market etc.) This thesis aims to give an evaluation...
A supply chain (SC) is a network of supplier, factories, warehouse, distribution centers, retailers, and customers, through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, produced, and delivered to the customers. As a complex network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distributors, and retailers, the highly effective and efficient operations of a SC depend on the speedily moving of information flows...
Logistics distribution management is the core of logistics management. In this paper, I study a gravity model to determine the best distribution center location for reducing the logistics costs , and then get the new supply chain.
Due to the characteristics of construction projects such as only one time establishment, big investment scale, complicated structure and high energy consumption in operation process, the cost management theories and methods of construction projects are different from other general products. This paper proposes to apply VE to the total life cycle of construction projects, and also proposes a dynamic...
This paper explore how Taiwan wireless communication subcontractor improve inter-organization knowledge learning from his customer through dedicated supply network investment and specific location investment, commonly named VMI (Vendor Managed inventory) and RMA (Return Merchandise Authorization). The results show, dedicated supply network investment redirect knowledge flow direction and specific...
Globalization enables many high-tech manufacturing firms to have more reverse logistics demand; reverse logistics is further complicated when operating in a multinational setting. High-tech manufacturing firms thus must have an adequately large in-house fleet size as well as warehousing and advanced IT management systems to accommodate this unpredictable and large demand in reverse logistics. This...
The benefits brought by information sharing in construction supply chain (ISCSC) can be manifested in many aspects. The calculation of added-value generated from information sharing is complicated and difficult, and this paper proposes to measure the above-mentioned benefits from three aspects: construction period, cost and quality. By establishing mathematical equations of added-value in terms of...
Through measures of making full use of the limited infrastructure, the introduction of supply chain management and cooperation strategy and information technology, the current construction enterprises can improve their customer service, shorten the production cycle, improve production quality and strengthen its competitiveness. Based on the analysis of supply chain synergy in construction enterprises,...
For the characteristics of the coal enterprises and the status quo of its supply management, with the idea of supply chain management, the main problems of the coal enterprise supply logistics system are analyzed, the logistics resources of coal enterprises are integrated, the supply logistics system of the whole enterprise is optimized, the supply logistics activities are rational organized, so that...
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No.10 has been declared as accounting principle for allowance for reduction of inventory to market in Taiwan since December 31, 2008. It has become more difficult for semiconductor integrated device manufacturers, using make-to-stock manufacturing strategy and possessing inventory accounting for about 14% total costs, to maintain robust records in...
RFID is one of the contemporary technologies that has the potential to enable improved data gathering and cross-companies integration, and thus achieve cost efficiency. However, RFID has not yet become primary approach to collect data from the supply chain activities. This is partly due to (relative) high cost of implementation, partly due to technical deficiencies, as well as cross-company systems...
This paper studies a supply contract between a manufacturer and a retailer in the cosmetics industry under which a retailer receives discounts for committing to purchase products before the point of differentiation. The retailer can adjust the order quantities after the trial period based on updated demand forecast information and inventory status by paying a higher per-unit cost for the incremental...
With the rapid development of economics, many environmental problems have emerged to threaten human health, such as dirtier water, green house effect. Industry is forced to improve its environmental management to reduce pollutions and consumption for natural resource as the main source of pollution. The suppliers of enterprises are the important section for enterprises to improve their environmental...
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