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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...
This research focused on the impacts of purchasing policies, customer-supplier relationships and purchasing-related information systems and technologies on the performance of purchasing and supply chain management in Chinese manufacturing. This research surveyed 384 purchasing staff in Chinese manufacturing enterprises and of these, 124 have offered usable responses. As the results shown, there are...
The core of ERP is to realize effective management of the whole supply chain, which is mainly embodied by management of resources of whole supply chain, lean production, concurrent works, agile manufacturing, in-advance planning and intermediate control. The coal enterprise management concept has been transformed due to the introduction of ERP. Coal production is an important activity which is decisive...
This paper introduces the characteristics, goals, objects and content of green supply chain management, develops a three layers enterprise application information system integration model based on the green supply chain management combining with the relationship of enterprise application information systems, and describes the function and relation of each layer to help enterprise realize the sustainable...
The objective of supply chain management is the improvement of the material flow between the linked enterprises by installing information systems and procedures in order to enhance the coordination in the logistic chain. Planning the production and order quantities is a fundamental and decisive process for material flows in a supply chain. Therefore the coordination of these decisions is of great...
??Gentelligence???? is a neologism which consists of the two words ??genetic?? and ??intelligent??. Gentelligent?? Parts are basically components which are able to save information. The special and specific property is that they have both the ability to save and store information and to handing it over to the next component generation. Lifecycle information is saved in a continuous process. Due to...
Event management is a problem in the supply chain context that requires a solution with the goal of mitigate the event effect during the execution plan. We present an autonomous agent-based approach to support a system for this problem. Our proposal introduces two novel aspects: we conceive the system as a collaborative inter-organizational information system and we aim to provide autonomous mechanisms...
This paper proposes a practical approach to evaluate a supply relation, consisting of two parts. Firstly, a supply chain concept is proposed that consists of four areas: physical supply, planning and control, organization and relation and flow of information. This concept is useful in describing and analyzing a supply relation. Secondly, a method based on scenario planning is used to generate alternative...
For years, returned merchandise was generally viewed as a headache for both the seller and the buyer. Reverse logistics, the movement of materials back up the supply chain, is being recognized by many organizations and firms. While global environmental concerns have been the motivation for initiating the field of reverse logistics, firms have discovered that reverse logistics plays an important role...
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