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New forms of relationships and transactions are being practiced between companies participating in the same supply chain to improve the competitive conditions in the chain. The automotive industry is a striking example of a sector in which relationships between companies have undergone profound changes, motivated mainly by the influence of automakers on primary suppliers who, in turn, work with their...
As automotive companies are concentrating on their core competencies, the number and importance of buyer-supplier-relationships is growing. Furthermore, projects in the automotive industry are characterized by runtimes up to ten or more years and the environment can be described as turbulent. Therefore, decisions of companies are subject to a decreasing predictability of future cost and risk factors...
In order to resolve the problems of information distortion, delay, unbalance and waste of inventory in current logistics management, the lean logistic operating model based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is put forward and its feasibility studied in this paper. A five-layer control system of lean logistics is constructed to forecast real-time material demands and the function of every layer...
The prevalence and primary characteristics of concurrent engineering between clients and suppliers in the South African automotive component manufacturing industry was investigated. The global trend towards Follow Source and Follow Design has had a detrimental effect on locally owned automotive supplier companies in developing countries such as South Africa. It was proposed that the effective use...
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