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In Supply Chain Management, several costs should be taken into account. They cover all of the holding, purchasing, ordering and transportation. Minimizing costs may be done through considering each cost separately or all of them simultaneously. In this paper, we focus on the ordering problem. In a cooperative context, two major fundamental relations were studied: the first one considers the possible...
The purpose of this paper is to explain what the United Company for Trading (UCT) has done to reduce costs and improve operations. The study will highlight how Engineering and Information technology Systems can be used to improve operations of companies. This paper will also illustrate how to find solutions for warehousing and distribution problems, as well as suggest solutions for the problems that...
The development of SCM systems is a difficult activity, since it involves integrating critical business flows both within and among participating companies. The inherently difficulty of the problem is exacerbated by the business constraint (that almost invariably applies in the real world) that the investments made by individual companies throughout the years must be preserved. This maps to major...
“Supply chain versus supply chain” is the new mantra for contemporary competitive businesses. To reach the desired competitive advantage and sustainability, companies are acknowledging the importance of supply chain management (SCM) and the benefits of improving it by a performance management system (PMS). Since one cannot manage without measure, a performance measurement system (PMeS) is a basic...
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...
The focus onto the final customer is one of the major sources to design and improve the value adding processes of a company. By having the customer's delight [1] in the mind it is required to direct the majority of processes to this delightful momentum. End-to-end supply chain management is exactly stressing on this focus. However, this end-to-end point of view is not new: the customer order cycle...
Environmental issues and governmental regulations have pushed companies to be more environmentally conscious and socially responsible. Sustainable production plays an important role in the global markets and companies practicing sustainable manufacturing processes for protecting the environment can increase their competitiveness. Reverse logistics is one of the sustainable approaches, which returns...
Having recognized knowledge's relevance as a strategic resource and thus its importance for competitiveness, organizations aim at transforming individual knowledge into organizational knowledge to provide information for all types of technical and managerial decisions. Considering the four processes of organizational knowledge creation theory, we conduct a case study of one of the worldwide leading...
Information technology tool is very important for enterprises competition in the fierce market. In order to provide a powerful operation tool for enterprise, we create an integrated marketing information system. Firstly, we present the integrated framework of marketing information system. Then the whole creation processes about before-sale, in-sale and after-sale management of the integrated marketing...
E-portfolio benefits have been widely recognized in literature, although they are most commonly integrated for benefit in academic. This article discusses the benefits observed from integration, as well as the demand for improved portfolio developments, using a small range of peer-reviewed studies as supporting evidence. The discussion and analysis, after presenting the clear case for improvement,...
This paper takes a practical case study approach to demonstrate the genetic algorithm (GA)'s ability to help purchasing manager in making a better decision on procurement of products or materials. The GA implemented in the supplier selection function aims to allow purchasing managers to get better decisions in choosing the appropriate suppliers by choosing the appropriate products under various contextual...
The aim of this paper is to present a mathematical approach to support the decision making of distribution center location. We use the LP model to decide the (distribution center) DC's capacity and location with the consideration of delivery time. We find that the time cost effects decision of distribution center location significantly and suggest that manager should involve cost of time in their...
This paper aims to investigate the impacts of service quality on customer satisfaction and loyalty in the e-commerce context, in particular from a triad view of customer-e-retailer-3PL (third party logistics) provider. A literature review is primarily used to determine the conceptual model and to develop the measurement scales. Data were collected through online questionnaire survey conducted in China...
Supply chains are networks of independent companies which produces the value for final customers. The goal of supply chain management is the coordination of these companies. This research addresses the problem of decentralized coordination in a supply chain with more than two partners. Using a heuristic search with local optimization we coordinate more than two partners of a supply chain. This approach...
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...
After studying 151 publications on the topic of buyer-supplier relationships over a 20 year period, Terpend, Tyler, Krause and Handfield [1]point out that the concept of sustained competitive advantage deserves more emphasis by researchers investigating value extraction form buyer-supplier relationships. Research should identify the types of practices and the conditions likely to gain a firm a competitive...
Observed in recent years, significant price fluctuations in the food supply chain have led to an increase in consumer food prices and higher inflation. These phenomena make it necessary to take activities in order to improve the functioning of food products' supply chains.
The aim of this study is to find the impact of means and resources pooling on the logistics networks. In fact, the pooling of resources and means, allows sharing resources and means in the logic of quality improvement and cost reduction, it will ensure a better functioning of the various operations management. In this context, we evaluate the difference between the actual situation and future situation...
Purpose: Green supply chain management (GSCM) has become the driver of sustainable strategy. This topic has been gaining increasing attention within both academia and industry for making the industry competitive. With the ever increasing demand for reducing carbon foot prints and green house gas emission, there is a need to study the various parameters and drivers of sustainable development, especially...
Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that us leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today's supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationship among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared...
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