...Specifying Information Systems for Business Process Integration – A Management Perspective1 Joerg Becker, Alexander Dreiling, Roland Holten, Michael Ribbert University of Muenster Dept. of Information Systems Leonardo-Campus 3 48149 Muenster, Germany {isjobe|isaldr|isroho|ismiri}@wi.uni-muenster.de Abstract Supply chain management and customer relationship management are concepts for optimizing the provision of goods to customers. Information sharing and information estimation are key tools used to implement these two concepts. The reduction of delivery times and stock levels can be seen as the main managerial objectives of an integrative supply chain and customer relationship management. To achieve this objective, business processes need to be integrated along the entire supply chain including the end consumer. Information systems form the backbone of any business process integration. The relevant information system architectures are generally well-understood, but the conceptual specification of information systems for business process integration from a management perspective, remains an open methodological problem. To address this problem, we will show how customer relationship management and supply chain management information can be integrated at the conceptual level in order to provide supply chain managers with relevant information. We will further outline how the conceptual management perspective of business process integration can be supported by deriving...
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...Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency via Lean Thinking Robert Moyler California Miramar University December 18, 2013 Abstract The purpose of this study is to explore the lean thinking system across operational processes of organizations. This paper hopes to examine lean thinking methods and some alternative approaches to discovering the most effective process and best practices for efficiency across multiple layers of any organization as it transforms raw materials into a finished product. In addition, this paper will explore how senior level executives can deploy lean thinking systems across its operations and internal processes to drive end profits and increase margins for an organization. Through articles, research, and evaluating previous studies to define and determine the best lean thinking to produce a strong value oriented product or service that produces positive financial results. This in turn, will create an effective yet efficient atmosphere that is all encompassing benefiting the organization, consumers, and the environment in which the organization is apart of. Operational Effectiveness and Efficiency via Lean Thinking Introduction Due to turbulent economic times and stronger competitive forces in the market place, it has become increasingly harder for firms or organizations to operate effectively and efficiently in the era we live in today. For this reason, this paper weighs heavily on lean thinking systems to arrive at effective and efficient...
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...Supply Chain Management: Challenges, Remedies and the Impact of change - Overview By Adawari Josiah Jumbo Student No.: 15522057 Submitted To Laureate Online Education & University of Liverpool – Online Masters Degree In Partial fulfillment for the award of Master of Science (M.Sc.) Degree in Operations and Supply Chain Management Instructor: Professor Anshuman Khare 2010. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I am delighted to say thanks my Instructor Professor Anshuman Khare for your professional support and supervision all through this module including this project work for your encouragement is commendable. The learning acquired through interaction with my course mate has been tremendous, I therefore say thanks to my entire class mate. I also appreciate all authors whose works aided me in this project. I am sincerely indebted to all of you. To God, I say thanks for your kindness and support for this programme. Adawari Josiah Jumbo ABSTRACT This research was carried out to find out the challenges and the economic and operational impact of change on supply chain, including the options available to improve the challenges and create increased performance on the chain. To drive home the study we focused on PHRC Limited in Nigeria. We also undertake a comprehensive review of...
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...text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0957-4093.htm Effectiveness and efficiency: the role of demand chain management David Walters University of Western Sydney, Parramatta, Australia Abstract Purpose – The paper aims to focus on and discuss the differences between the demand chain led organization and the supply chain led organization. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses a desk-based approach to data collection and provides analysis and discussion of the issues. Findings – The paper finds that the differences between the demand chain led organization and the supply chain led organization are ones of emphasis. Supply management is cost-led and attempts to provide an adequate level of service. By contrast the demand chain approach is a broader view of relationship management taking a view that the two overlap and that effective management is to integrate the two. Originality/value – The paper focuses on the increasing importance of demand chain and supply chain management decisions. Keywords Supply chain management, Cost effectiveness Paper type Research paper The role of demand chain management 75 A glance at today’s financial pages suggests that it is those firms that consistently and persistently manage their cost structures that are seen as the achievers. There also appears to be a popular notion that an effective supply chain alone will ensure adequate customer satisfaction through reducing costs, and therefore, prices. At the...
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...Operational Approaches Paper University of Phoenix ISCOM/370 Introduction Competition among today’s organizations has become immense and is getting tougher and tougher day by day, since more new companies are starting businesses in the same industry. Whether they are from the manufacturing sector or service sector, the need for cutting the unnecessary costs, achieving maximum efficiency, and implementing operations management strategies is increasing (Shaikh, 2009). To serve the different needs and expectation of various customers effectively, it is necessary to implement effective operational approaches, which enable the organization to meet the standards of particular industry. There are various operational approaches for a service and manufacturing organization, which are necessary for increasing the productivity and efficiency of the organization. I have chosen customer relationship management as an operational approach for service organization and supply chain management for manufacturing organization. Operational Approaches Customer relationship management is used to handle the organizations relationship with customers and also assists the front office business processes such as marketing, sales and service. Each contact with the customer is added to the contact history of the customer, which can be used later by the employees to analyze information from the customer's database. Enterprise service management is the most important approach used by service organization...
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...scp-uk.co.uk How Supply Chains Create Shareholder Value by Dr. David Lascelles, Supply Chain Planning UK Limited S upply chain management is no longer a boring Cinderella of the business world. Not since the mid-nineties when enterprises as diverse as Amazon, Cemex, Cisco Systems, Dell Computers and Zara started to create dominant competitive positions, build huge market capitalisations and delight their shareholders through the brilliant management of their supply chains. No, supply chain management has become a hot topic in boardrooms worldwide. The case histories of Internet retailer, Amazon; web systems builder, Cisco; PC giant, Dell; and Spanish fashion retailer, Zara are well documented. But Cemex, a Mexican cement supplier? Well, you don’t need to be in hi-tech or high fashion to reap the benefits of supply chain excellence. The effects can be just as dramatic for a commodity supplier. As a result of its supply chain performance improvement efforts, Cemex enjoys the highest value-to-sales ratio of the world’s six largest cement manufacturers. These enterprises represent just the tip of the iceberg. More than one study indicates that superior performing supply chains increase free cash flows – the key driver of shareholder value – by up to 20% on average. Supply chain excellence is a crucial engine of economic growth. And yet, even though it represents one of the most exciting opportunities to create value and build market share, the supply chain remains one of the...
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...Supply Chains going Green Name Institutional affiliation Date The discussion of supply chains going green has become a bone of contention among major stakeholders in the industry. The discussion started after the Carbon disclosure project released a report indicating that supply chains contributed greatly to the emission of carbon in the atmosphere. Due to the report, pressure has been mounting on the administration of supply chains to implement strategies on their carbon management. Analysts have however stated that there are various pros and cons of the supply chains going green, which have to be considered in the implementation of carbon management strategies. This paper analyzes the pros and cons of supply chains going green. Advantages of supply chains going green Improvement in financial performance over time There are various benefits associated with companies going green. One of the benefits of supply chains going green is the positive impact that it has on the financial performance of the supply chain. Despite the myth that cutting carbon emissions increases expense, there is evidence that cutting on carbon emissions has a great impact on cutting expenses of the supply chains. Through a systematic approach to the manner in which the supply chains operate, it is possible for the administration to analyze how carbon management strategies will cut costs for their organization. Through empirical evidence from...
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...PROJECT QUESTION THREE: “Develop a supply chain operations plan for a hypothetical new enterprise, based on information about real-world resources, vendors and customers. Justify the design”. COMPANY’S NAME: FLETCHER DELIVERY SERVICES (FDS) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Problems 3.0 Purpose of Supply Chain Strategy 4.0 Goals of the Company (FDS) 5.0 Strategic Vision 6.0 Strategic Mission 7.0 Corporate or Company’s Vision 8.0 Abstract 9.0 Developing a Strategic Supply Chain Operations Plan 10.0 Components of the Plan 11.0 Implementations of Defined Strategies 12.0 Avoiding Business Failures 13.0 Recognizing Organization Challenges 14.0 Conclusions 15.0 References 1.0 INTRODUCTION FLETCHER DELIVERY SERVICES (FDS) has just gone into business of parcel and package courier delivery service. Before the coming of FDS, deliveries are not on time, parcels and packages are poorly handled without proper care and the security of packages. The company needs a Supply Chain Operations Plan so as to be able to compete and even have a competitive advantage over the existing delivery companies. There is a need for putting in place, a Supply Chain Strategy that will be interactive enough as to be able to constantly evaluate all the operational components including the costs, the benefits and the trade-offs (Happek, 2005). There is going to be in place a Business Strategy (BS) for FDS that among other things, will prompt its core competencies into achieving...
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... //As per the directions, the section explains about the operational approaches that can be used for service and manufacturing organizations. It discusses the important operational approaches like Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Service Management (ESM), Supply chain Management (SCM) and Decision Making Framework (DMF).\ To serve the different needs and expectation of various customers effectively, it is necessary to implement effective operational approaches, which enable the organization to meet the standards of particular industry. There are various operational approaches for a service and manufacturing organization, which are necessary for increasing the productivity and efficiency of the organization. I have chosen consumer relationship management as an operational approach for service organization and supply chain management for manufacturing organization. Operational Consumer relationship management: It is used to handle relationship with customers and assists the front office business processes such as marketing, sales and service. Each contact with the customer is added to the contact history of the customer, which can be used later by the employees to analyze information from the customer's database. This CRM practices the data of customer for a number of purposes such as to manage different campaigns, sales force automation and marketing automation. Enterprise service management (ESM): It is the most important approach used by service organization...
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...An Introduction To Supply Chain Management Commerce Essay The term supply chain management was first coined by a U.S. industry consultant in the early 1980s. However, the concept of a supply chain in management was of great importance long before, in the early 20th century. Supply chain management is the word coined for the effective management of all the partners and the information disseminated between them. Take an example of Dell computers, Micheal Dell cant built his business just by selling the computers to the customers, but he need to see the complex problems of the customers and solve these problems through just in time manufacturing of the product, then how to minimize the wastage in the production then to evaluate what customers are doing and how they can make their production efficiently (NYT 2010), as the manufacturer cannot sell the product at the higher prices than the competitors are selling but through effective management you can actually reduce the cost, so concisely he need to be a master of supply chain management. Before supply chain management there was effective inventory control system exist but due to some pit falls like; no supply chain metrics, inadequate definition of customer service, , organizational barriers, inaccurate delivery status data, simplistic inventory stocking policies, inefficient information systems, ignoring the impact of uncertainties, and an incomplete view of the supply chain (Teigen 1997). There is a need for another system...
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...IN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT The use of information technology (IT) is considered a prerequisite for the effective control of today’s complex supply chains. Because, today companies are often not considered independent entities, but parts of multi-company, multi-echelon networks, i.e. supply chains, delivering goods and services to the final customer. Companies today are under pressure to better manage the supply chain and to improve efficiency and logistics operations while remaining responsive to changing market conditions and customer demands. As a result, organizations need to adopt IT to support their supply chains and increase their efficiency by achieving tighter cooperation over the supply-chain. Importers and exporters need to know where their product is. Lenders need to know when and how to pay for it. Innovative companies have sprung up to harness the power of the IT, making it easier than ever for logistics managers to track and manage international shipments, and to serve their changing needs as they reach ever further across the globe to source goods. Companies such as Home Depot, Xerox and Sears already use on-demand, Web-based data hubs to identify where their goods are in real time, and if delays along the way should be corrected to avoid broader supply chain disruptions and expensive recovery work. TYPE OF ‘IT’ USE FOR OPTIMIZING SCM The use of IT for optimizing SCM can be divided into (Ref. Figure 1): * Transaction processing * Supply chain...
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...Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 9 – 10, 2010 Management of Supply Chain in Petroleum Corporations in India Surajit Roy LPG Operations, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. Mumbai 400053, India R. S. Dhalla Microbiological Consultants Mumbai 400007, India Abstract Supply chain initiatives have become a critical part of firms operations. Success is increasingly being dictated by how well a company can control its supply base and mitigate supply bottlenecks and liabilities. This paper used inductive and qualitative approaches to explore the salient factors that simultaneously enhance the “greening the supply chain” as well as maximizing the customer reach while maintaining the efficiency of the supply chain system of petroleum companies. The key indicators identified were environmental policies, supplier policies, sustainability, market orientation and commitment to human capital and diversity. A survey was conducted with key informants across many divisions of the LPG segment to investigate how well these environmental and customer reach in the supply chain are in synchronized with the top management’s commitment towards environmental responsiveness and maximizing customer orientation. The responses to the survey were statistically analyzed and a relationship model was constructed with Market orientation as the dependent variable and independent variables as: environmental policies, supplier...
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...Supply Chain Management Name of Student Roll # University Submitted to: Topic: What are different options available to mitigate different risks in a global supply chain? Risks in global supply chain Risk * Exposure to chance of injury or loss * Hazard or dangerous chance * Chance of loss * Degree of probability of such a loss Global supply chains can increase efficiency, but they can also increase risk. For example the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the floods in Thailand and the ash clouds caused by the Icelandic volcano—have demonstrated how far the consequences of such risks can extend. The Japanese earthquake, for example, severely affected global electronics production and led to extended business disruptions for the automotive industry. These are some of the risks that can affect the global supply chain: * Supply Risks. Impacts elements of inbound supply, implying that a supply chain is unable to meet the demand in terms of quantity and quality of parts and finished goods. The outcome is labeled as a supply disruption. * Demand Risks. Impacts elements...
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...Supply Chain Strategy The Importance of Aligning Your Strategies UPS Supply Chain SolutionsSM Copyright © 2005 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Our Insight. A UPS Supply Chain Solutions White Paper Introduction Chances are you’ve heard the term supply chain strategy. Used informally, it is often confused with supply chain management, where supply chain operations are controlled to reduce costs. There’s some truth to this definition, but supply chain strategy really is broader; it defines how the supply chain should operate in order to compete. Supply chain strategy is an iterative process that evaluates the costbenefit trade-offs of operational components. A well executed supply chain strategy results in value creation for the organization. Business strategy involves leveraging the core competencies of the organization to achieve a defined high-level goal or objective. It also includes the analytic and decision-making process surrounding what to offer (e.g., products and services), when to offer (timing, business cycles, etc), and where to offer (e.g., markets and segments) as a competitive plan. While the business strategy constitutes the overall direction that an organization wishes to go, the supply chain strategy constitutes the actual operations of that organization and the extended supply chain to...
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...in Supply Chain Management: Case Study 1 RFID and increased Supply Chain efficiency By Hilal Al Harthy Yanee Angsukran Vikram Ramakrishnappa Gowda Paul Macinnes Thakerngkorn Pothibourthong Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. RFID in Operations - Wal-Mart case study 4. RFID in Logistics - Canadian Airlines case study 5. The Risks of RFID technology in the Supply Chain 6. Conclusions 7. References 1. Executive Summary RFID is an emerging Information technology system in Supply Chain management. The purpose of using this technology is to speed up processes, improve efficiency and reduce operational costs. Looking at large companies who have implemented such schemes, we can see that although implementation and operational factors can be barriers, RFID technology is beneficial to Supply Chain operations. In terms of Implementation, the high costs and low initial ROI (Return On Investment) can make the use of RFID technology appear unattractive when first deployed. In terms of Operations, The technical difficulties for RFID produced by certain manufacturing environments can be a major obstacle, as well as difficulties integrating supply chain partners into a RFID based Supply Chain. Despite this, research revealed that RFID provides improvements to a Supply Chains core efficiency, which positively impacts upon running costs. It is suggested therefore that the use of RFID in the Supply Chain...
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