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Manufacturing systems have all along been inflexible to market and environmental changes. Hence, the need for bringing in flexibility and agility into the entire supply chain in order to ensure the customer receives the right product at the right time and with good quality. However, it is difficult to achieve the ideal scenario due to reasons of raw material availability, vendor management, inflexible...
Various drivers push companies to implement Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) practices. However, implementing GSCM practices is always subject to a number of interacting factors (attributes, characteristics and practices) that characterize the companys organization and its relationships with other supply chain partners. This study contributes to understanding how such factors taken together interact...
Information Technology (IT) and Information System (IS) have begun to demonstrate their role in motivating, enabling, and transforming Supply Chain Management (SCM) towards ecological sustainability. The relationship between SCM, IT, IS and environmental sustainability are complex but interdependent to an extent for a greater energy and environmental efficiency. Most companies typically disregard...
Suppliers evaluation and selection is one of the most critical activities of purchasing management in a supply chain, because of the key role of suppliers' performance in achieving the objectives. And it is a multi-criteria decision-making in which the objectives are not equally important. Supplier evaluation and selection decisions are complicated by the fact that various criteria must be considered...
Inter-organizational information technology networks act as an enabler for complex, inter-company business processes and large, distributed business models. These technology networks cover not only technical aspects, but moreover organizational aspects and show a highly dynamic change. For the study of organizational behavior, concepts from chaos theory have been used to understand the development...
The objective of this paper is build upon prior research [1], to provide some new perspectives in explaining how Information Technology (IT) can create a sustained competitive advantage (SCA) and supply chain quality management (SCQM) capabilities for the firm. The result shows that most of IT resources are positively related with SCQM capabilities and firm performance. Especially, the outside-in...
The key motivator behind information security is the management of business risk and regardless of whether that risk is financial or not, organizations mitigate vulnerabilities in the enterprise to reduce the threat to both reputation and customers. This paper discusses some aspects related to information security in supply chains and then proposes a Process Framework for the management of information...
Affected by factors like changes in tourism demand, scientific progress and others, the tourism mass customization came into being and became more and more popular. Differed from other traditional and standardized service modes, mass customization has its distinct characteristics and obvious competitive advantage. To effectively improve the mass customization of tourism, it's required to implement...
In this paper, we systematically reviewed the main achievements of the existing studies on agile manufacturing form virtual enterprise, agile information technology, agile supply chain, agile human resource management, and give the conclusion and inspiration of the study.
In supply chain environment, the asymmetry of information, distortion of information transmission between enterprises and the application of information technology will cause some information risk, which affecting the efficiency of enterprises in the supply chain. This article focuses on formation mechanism of information risk in supply chain and its control countermeasures. Three main reasons for...
The nature of supply chain management is to optimize the decision such as production of the enterprise, inventory, marketing and so on through information sharing in supply chain, so information sharing among node enterprises is a fundamental work in the supply chain. Firstly, this paper puts forward the view that information sharing can not only reduce risk brought by asymmetric information, but...
A supplier evaluation index system which takes the manufacturer as the core enterprise is established. GAHP is used to organize the evaluation information of a group of experts, by which manufacturer can decide the relative importance of each attribute. A ranking process is conducted on several suppliers based on TOPSIS method with interval numbers. Finally, a numerical example is used to prove the...
Since China joined WTO, a situation of fierce competition emerged in the retailing market. But foreign enterprise groups represented by Wal-Mart of USA and Carrefour SA of France took over Chinese market one after another. These multinational groups compared with the Chinese retail enterprises, apart from its advantages in scale and capital strength, it is more important on the differences in the...
This essay analyzed the economic influence of to tourism destination applying to the Hotelling Space difference model. One of the studied results is that tourism destination could improve the price and profit level only when the information technology investment scale of single tourism firm overruns its competitor. When scale is constant, it could increase the total surplus of consumer and social...
Taking Xinjiang's tomato industry as an example, this paper analyzes the management of agricultural supply chain and the sharing pattern results of supply chain information under the atmosphere of E-commerce both at home and abroad, illustrates problems and solutions of current tomato industry supply chain information sharing in Xinjiang, demonstrates the implementation necessity and feasibility of...
The supply chain theory has been obtained the universal application in the manufacturing industry, but the research on traveling supply chain is just to start. This essay brings forward he concept of tourism destination supply chain and build the mold of tourism destination supply chain based on the tourism destination.
The development of the E-business which is lying in the information and the network technology causes the market competition to be more intense. It becomes the key to the enterprise's competition between the supplier and consumer. It is the supply chain of the core enterprise in the enterprise's competition. This paper mainly describes the definition of E-business and Supply Chain management, and...
Efficient resources allocation is very important to the success of a company. Optimization of lead time is one of the key ways of time optimization. The paper analyzes the relationship between lead time and the safety stock, and establishes a function on the basis of such relationship. Based on mathematical analysis, the controlled optimal safety stock strategies are presented by controlling of lead...
Green supply chain management of agricultural products, whose establishment of trace ability is important, but the lack of appropriate information technology supported in the past. Green agricultural supply chain trace ability system should be established to provide a guarantee with the development of the internet of things. Analysis based on the internet of things in the green agricultural supply...
In order to manage and control organizational information flow effectively, information system (IS) is developed to operate a collection of data structured according to the needs of a company. The paper proposes a framework showing how the organizational IS affect the organizational supply chain activities. This paper also proposes an integrated approach toward organizational IS formulation and improvements...
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