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As the second largest in the world, the Chinese automobile market has become more and more important for automakers. However, the competition pressure in this market is ever increasing. To keep profitable, the automobile companies must pay special attention to cost control. Since the procurement cost takes most part of the complete vehicle cost, reducing procurement cost was made the first choice...
To pursue the optimal operations performance and profitability of their own, channel members in a supply chain tend to manipulate the channel power to serve the purpose. It inevitably evokes the problems of channel conflict and leverage situation within the supply chain power regime. We employ French and Raven??s approach on power sources along with Gaski??s power and conflict theory and Howell??s...
With the corporate environment nowadays being surrounded by plenty of information, the sharing of information among businesses through mutual cooperation tops the list of hot issues. Predictions of demands from the customer, business, or consumer by sharing information can affect the inventory and order production system. However, notwithstanding the importance of sharing information, empirical studies...
Many research experts and industry executives point out that the industry competition is not only between enterprises, but also between supply chains. With tight connections and cooperation between supply chain members, the supply chain can increase values for end customers and gains competitive advantage. Meanwhile, such relationships also create win-win situations among supply chain members. Thus,...
This paper develops a vendor managed inventory (VMI) dynamics based on the fuzzy arithmetic. The VMI has been used to reduce the "Bullwhip Effect" in supply chain. This research observes and analyzes the phenomena of VMI by system dynamics based on fuzzy arithmetic of the weakest t-norm (TW). The traditional crisp system dynamics has been widely used. However, it is observable that some...
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