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In the virtual organization environment, supply chain not only exists between the internal member enterprises of the virtual organization and within the member enterprise, but also exists in the supply and cooperation relationship between the virtual organization and external environment. The research of virtual organization integration need consideration in the supply network system of globalization,...
To respond to economic globalization effectively and to support open cooperation among enterprises under dynamic complex market environment, an innovative enterprise management model-supply and demand network(SDN) has been presented. But for enterprise applying SDN is a behavior of enterprise reform with risks. To help more enterprises with SDN smoothly, a model based on agent for early-warning of...
Business development is vital for any firms. However, globalization and the rapid development of technologies have made it difficult to find appropriate business partners such as suppliers, customers and outsources. In this contribution, we propose a new computational approach to find business partner candidates based on firm profiles and transactional relationships among them. We employ machine learning...
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...
With growing concern on environmental considerations in supply chain industries, numerous corporations are facing new challenge on carbon management in supply chains. A few of global companies which provide management services, like IBM, are developing various tools of carbon management. Since carbon management would exert considerable impacts with changes on supply chain activities, an effective...
The rise of China manufacturing industry has won the “World Factory” reputation, but the equipment manufacturing industry of China still in the low-end value chain of the global industrial chain. Vigorously promoting the information and industrialization integration can bring the industry from large to strong. For China, “manufacturing large” to “manufacturing power” points out the direction of development...
In the new historic opportunity, it is very urgent to verify, measure and evaluate the location-specific advantages and disadvantages of embedding multi-national corporation value chain in Liaoning province objectively, by using empirical analysis method. The cluster analysis showed that Liaoning's attractive power of market capability is above the average level of the country. And the attractive...
To adapt to the trend of globalization and empower the competition ability, the enterprises enter the supply chains, which provide the great developing opportunities and at the same time, aggravate the risks that suddenly exposed to the enterprises. To the forestry enterprises, because of their distinctive features, the supply chain risk management is different from the other industries. The traditional...
Numerous global manufacturing firms use China as their manufacturing platform and are engaged in processing trade for global markets. They are engaged in export processing operation through the form of processing with supplied materials(PSM) and processing with purchased materials(PPM). The major goal of this paper is to explore, from the perspective of export processing in China, the key characteristics...
High degree of uncertainty in wafers cycle time brings semiconductor manufacturers' difficulty in making feasible order promise. After analyzing the roots of deficiencies in conventional order promising method, we develop a method called CRMPO (Capacity Reserved for Multi-Priority Orders) to promise orders. By dividing all orders into several priorities and reserving capacities for each priority in...
With the globalization, a product is assembled by various parts of the product that are produced in different countries. How to finish the task? It depends on the supply chain. The products are transported different area of the worlds by the supply chain; the enterprise gets the profit when the products are sold. But the supply chain suffers the different risks that are caused by uncertain economic...
Food safety and food supply chain management has become a hot research at home and abroad. This article describes the background of the food supply chain, and puts forward a new idea to solve the food safety problems in the food supply chain induced by the causes according to the problem. Analysis based on the quality and safety of the food supply chain information to track state of developments well...
Nowadays, with the development of economic globalization, the establishment of high-performance digital integrated enterprise information resource management system has become the effective means to improve their market competitiveness, reduce costs, and timely access to the information for enterprises. According to the current situation that the traditional enterprise system integration can not be...
There are three typical types of grain supply chain in China non-primary grain-yielding areas. Besides problems inside supply chain itself, the competition pressure from foreign grain multinationals and its supply chain becomes more seriously. A new grain supply chain mode of service supply chain for China non-primary grain-yielding areas is put forward and analyzed, which is to strengthen competitiveness...
In the context of economic globalization, the globalization of allocation of resources and industrial internationalization is an inevitable trend, China's total foreign trade volume has also been growing by leaps and bounds, not only in quantity, but also in position. China has become the largest country in trade in 2009 exceeding Germany. However, if in perspective of international supply chain,...
Over the past few years, analysis of successful manufacturing and retail companies shows that in today's hyper-competitive business environment, supply chain efficiency is a necessary condition for survival. Falling margins, globalization, and accelerating innovation cycles are forcing businesses to switch from traditional supply chains to new pattern of supply chain which needs to respond to their...
A major concern of many global enterprises is to make their supply network robust, because enterprises' supply network should be robust in order to overcome the supply network risks. While many researches and practices proposed strategies for flexible management of supply network, especially for mitigating supply network risks, it is remains unclear how to evaluate the robustness of supply network...
Globalization has prompted manufacturing firms to come to terms with environmental legislation and regulations, resulting in the manufacturing industry realizing the importance of adopting environmental friendly supply chain management (SCM) practices. A growing number of companies have realized that attaining effective SCM is only one side of the coin. The other side is to make SCM environmentally...
With the economic globalization and since the forming of the global market, competition has become fiercer and fiercer in any industry. Global company is, up to date, the highest enterprise form. Global companies possess many advantages, for instance, they can integrate and allocate resources globally. However, without proper management, no company can succeed, nor can global companies. In order to...
Fierce competition in global markets and the heightened expectations of consumers have forced business enterprises to invest in and focus attention on the relationships with their customers and suppliers and businesses increasingly realize that they no longer compete as solely autonomous entities. Logistics supply chain management has become more and more important for the major retailing corporations...
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