supply chain management

Supply chain management (SCM) has been discussed by researchers as well as business practitioners for more than two decades now, but still surprisingly little of this philosophy can be seen in today’s business practices. One important enabler for taking the SCM philosophy from theory into practice that is often mentioned, but not investigated in-depth, is top management support. The role top management plays in a company’s SCM practices could be an important piece of research that is not yet in ...

Supply chain management addresses the management of materials and information across the entire chain from suppliers to producers,distributors, retailers, and customers. In the past few decades, scholars gave ample attention about the impact of inventory on Supply Chain Management (SCM). Roughly speaking, research on supply chain management has been mainly focused on three major issues. One is the behavior of information flow; the second issue deals with inventory management; the third issue is orientated to planning and operations management. In ...

Rapid technological advancements have completely revolutionalised the way things are done in the business world today. Proliferation of the internet and related technologies in the 1990s made it possible for companies to do business over the internet and it became easier and faster to do business both with suppliers and customers. With the ushering in of electronic business (e-business), many organisations including the public sector have since implemented various forms of its applications such as e-procurement, e-service, e-government and many ...

Corporations have turned increasingly to global sources for their supplies. This globalization of supply has forced companies to look for more effective ways to coordinate the flow of materials into and out of the company. This Master Thesis is a part of PlymoVent’s business to customer plot, with the aim to investigate how the consumers receive the services that PlymoVent provides. With regard to PlymoVent's business strategy and reference theory, the demands of how to receive and monitor a supply chain ...

As a consequence of increased globalisation, the competition among companies is growing and new ways have to be found to succeed in the new business climate. The purpose of this thesis is to describe logistics collaboration in supply chains. During the past two decades, a new trend towards integration and collaboration in supply chains has been recognized among researchers as well as among business practitioners. This philosophy is called supply chain management and has received enormous attention in logistics research. Contents 1 ...

It is the gift of the last decade of the 20th century that most of the economies of the world are zooming towards market orientation. Rapid innovations in the field of science and technology, especially information and communication technologies along with heavy industrialization as a consequence of liberalization policy of almost all economies of the world have transformed world market in a global village. All these have forced publishing companies to perform in a highly competitive environment. European publishing companies are ...

The aim of this thesis is to provide to the governmental decision-maker/user, an instrument that can assist him/her in improving the infrastructure investment decision in the economical, environmental and sustainable aspects. This means that, the Return on Investment (ROI) of the concerned transport infrastructure, satisfying environmental and sustainable constraints must be positive, and corresponding to an optimal investment cost. The decision support system can be applied in two dimensions. One dimension is where the real negotiation process is occurring between ...

Title: Strategies for Sustainable Supply Chain Management: Supplier Interaction Devices In a competitive business environment that requires strategy and innovation to improve the bottom line, supply chain management (scm) has been vital in creating competitive advantage. Increasingly, companies are also identifying sustainability as an opportunity to create competitive advantage. This project explores supply chains as a leverage point in advancing sustainable development. Corporations have developed different tools to interact with their suppliers on sustainability. Three of these devices were analyzed against ...

The increasing material costs and the rapid advances in computing technology have both motivated and promoted the study of network problems that arise in several different application domains. This dissertation consists of four chapters on network applications in transportation, telecommunications, and supply chain management. The core of our research is to apply heuristic search procedures and combinatorial optimization techniques to various practical problems. In the second chapter we investigate the split delivery vehicle routing problem (SDVRP), where a customer's demand ...

This study investigated supply chain management practices in the retail grocery industry from two perspectives. First, the operational performance objectives were examined by developing and testing a periodic review, joint replenishment model and heuristic. Joint replenishment policies, designed to coordinate the ordering of multiple items, can reduce inventory costs by synchronizing transportation and replenishment decisions (Cetinkaya and Lee, 2000). A fully specified model was developed taking into account the cost disadvantage of over-declared shipments. Based on the performance of the ...