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...Pajerski Advanced Logistics BUS 698 Matthew Keogh May 12, 2014 This paper shall discuss the opportunities that exist to improve supply-chain activities; how to better align logistics and the company’s strategic plan, to integrate the supply-chain. In order to improve the movement of goods; identify challenges in integration of suppliers and manufacturers in the logistics management; companies must be willing to adjust their practices to current circumstances affecting supply-chain. Many processes exist on the market today that companies can adopt to increase their values, which affects the supply-chain management on organizational level; and financial implications by reviewing some of the best practices available on the market and improving their own supply-chain management. I have not worked directly in supply chain management for many years however; I spent over 22 years in Logistics on active duty in the United States Air Force and decided to enroll in the MBA program in Organizational Management at Ashford. Furthermore, since there is a lack of experience in a particular supply chain management, this paper will instead break down a theoretical focal company’s strategic management overall and the theories of strategic management of supply chains in particular and how they need to support each other. The three levels of supply-chain that companies used to survive and operate in business are strategic, tactical, and operational. Organization make high-level decisions...
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...CURRENT CHALLENGES OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Acknowledgement It is only because of the grace and mercy of great Almighty ALLAH that we are able to complete our report. Without His help, in no way we could complete it. We are highly indebted to honor Sir Shoaib Ishtiaq (Bahria University) for assigning us such an important and interesting report and for his valuable guidance in carrying out this research study which benefited during our course work in the university. We would also like to extend our gratitude towards the internet & books which helped us greatly. And on the other hand all those people who were directly and indirectly involved in the completion of this project. ABSTRACT Purpose : As the business environment becomes increasingly competitive, companies continuously look for ways to distinguish themselves from their competitors. Companies adapt different Supply Chain Management practices and philosophies to help them become competitive. However, they may face challenges that hinder attainment of the results sought. Here is the study of few challenges that supply chain management are facing in today’s world and some strategies propose to cope up with those challenges. Methods : Firstly the major challenges were search and then some strategies were purpose to cope up with those challenges of supply chain management by giving the examples of case study than how in past companies have faced those challenges and they were not able to handle...
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...The impact of globalisation on the value chain Supply Management and competitive advantage INTRODUCTION The overall objective is to see how the supply chain management can bring competitive advantage. In addition, examine the benefits created by this tool such as reduced costs, reduced process time, quality analysis and flexible supply chain. That is, verify the changes that occurred after the implementation of this method by checking its adaptability in relation to market changes. (Ballou, 2001) Currently logistics is showing a constant evolution, it remains one of the key elements in the company's competitive strategy. At first it was confused with the transport and storage of products. Today is the nerve centre of an integrated supply chain, working in close harmony with the modern management of the supply chain (supply chain management). She comes to all handling and storage activities that facilitate the flow of products from the point of acquisition of raw material to the point of final consumption, thinking up even in the way within the company, as well as information flows that put moving products, for the purpose of providing adequate service levels to customers at a reasonable cost. The management of logistics and information flow throughout the chain allows executives to assess strengths and weaknesses in its supply chain, helping make decisions that result in reduced costs, increased quality, among others, increasing product competitiveness...
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...A CONCEPTUAL VALUE CHAIN MODEL FOR ORIGIN ENERGY 13 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY _____________________________________________________________ c 1 Introduction __________________________________________________________________ 1 2 Background __________________________________________________________________ 2 2.1 Background of Origin Energy ___________________________________________________ 2 3 Literature Review________________________________________________________________ 3 3.1 Supply Chain Management _____________________________________________________ 3 3.2 Quality Improvement Models and Gap Analysis ____________________________________ 4 3.3 Lean and Six Sigma Technology ________________________________________________ 5 4 Discussion & Analysis ____________________________________________________________ 6 4.1 Supply Chain of Origin Energy _________________________________________________ 6 4.2 SWOT Analysis for Origin Energy _______________________________________________ 7 4.3 Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model _________________________________ 9 4.4 Conceptual Improvement Model for Supply Chain Management ______________________ 12 4.4.1 Introduction ____________________________________________________________ 12 4.2.2 Assumptions: ___________________________________________________________ 13 4.3.3 Supply Chain Conceptual Improvement Model (SCCIM) _________________________ 13 4.2.4 Key Benefits of the model _________________________________________________...
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...com/1741-0401.htm IJPPM 60,3 A study of total quality management and supply chain management practices 268 Received January 2010 Revised March 2010 Accepted March 2010 Faisal Talib Mechanical Engineering Section, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, University Polytechnic, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Zillur Rahman Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India, and M.N. Qureshi Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Technology and Engineering, M.S. University of Baroda, Vadodara, India Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a set of total quality management (TQM) and supply chain management (SCM) practices through an extensive literature review and to identify the relationships among them by comparing the identified TQM and SCM practices. Design/methodology/approach – An extensive overview of the practices of TQM and SCM is carried out using published research papers and some major TQM and SCM practices were extracted. These identified practices are then compared to explore the relationship between them for better understanding and application. Findings – The results reveal six major TQM and SCM practices from as many as 50 TQM practices and 40 SCM practices. The paper further compares these practices and found that management support and commitment, customer focus, and supplier partnership are the most common practices found in both TQM and SCM literature, and have...
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...Green Supply Chain Management Environment Management Project Group Members: Smruti Ranjan Dora F016 Ishan Mittal F036 Deepankar Mukherjee F037 Pratik Nandekar F040 Akash Pandey F044 Kriti Talwar F064 Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Globalization and Greening the Supply Chain: ....................................................................................... 3 3. Marks and Spencer ................................................................................................................................. 4 3.1 Background ......................................................................................................................................... 4 3.2 Supply Chain Understanding ............................................................................................................... 4 (i) Issues ................................................................................................................................................. 4 3.3 Drivers for GSCM................................................................................................................................. 5 (i) ‘Brand Trust’ ...................................................................................................................................... 5 (ii) Operating Cost........................................................
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...International Management Project Management 4900 – International Management and Globalization Executive Summary As an opportunity to apply concepts of international management, the following analysis evaluates issues and provides recommendations for the Ann Taylor Corporation. The retail apparel industry as a whole has rapid business cycles because fashion and consumer tastes changing constantly. The already fiercely competition for market share is amplified by the declining economy. Like many apparel companies, Ann Taylor creates the designs and outsources the manufacturing process. Ann Taylor sells women’s apparel and accessories and targets affluent career-minded women. One of the company’s strengths is brand equity. Every aspect of the Ann Taylor brand supports corporate social responsibility. Any association with a supplier or manufacturer that doesn’t support CSR and environmental sustainability will tarnish the Ann Taylor brand and risk losing brand loyal customers. With dependency on over 150 suppliers around the globe, communication and culture awareness is required of all Ann Taylor management. Lack of culture understanding will put business partnerships at risk. Although Ann Taylor doesn’t have ownership rights in China, understanding what drives and motivates Chinese workers will help Ann Taylor management collaborating more effectively with the managers of the outsourced manufacturing located in China. The need for strategic management is heightened...
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... Operations Management Literature Review and Critique Introduction Supply Chain Management is the combined set of practices, policies and frameworks that represent the relationship and the working dynamics between manufacturing, supplier, wholesaler, retailers and other supporting entities like warehouses, distributors etc. that enables final goods and services to reach the customers in the desired quantities and at the desired time (Heizer and Render, 2014). There are many parts or sub-components of the supply chain gamut that makes organzation operations effective and deliver goods and services in time. This literature review assesses and critiques quality management, inventory management and Just in time (JIT) and lean operations. All these topics are integral in attaining smooth SCM functions and activities in any organization. Various books, academic journals and perspectives of different authors have been referred to, in order to compile this paper. Quality Management and Supply Chain In layman language we understand quality as a highly desired feature, anything that is of high quality is in high demand, argues Fahey (2004) and more often than not, anything that is high in quality is high in price too, cites the author. Quality is thus one of the features that measure the goodness or desirability in a product and service that organizations produce or create. Casadesus and Castro (2005) cite that quality in tangible or manufacturing sectors implies a measure...
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...MANAGEMENT 3620 skyline aviation operation and resource management analysis. SKYLINE AVIATION OPERATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS – SKYLINE AVIATION. SUMMARY: This document outlines a project plan to evaluate and analyze the operations and resource management strategies of “Skyline Aviation”, a world renowned custom aircraft manufacturing company who has been in the business for over half a century. Safety, luxury, and efficiency has been the vision and manufacturing custom air transport solution to serve its customer base is the mission of Skyline Aviation for the last several years. The company has been operating with increasing revenues and profit margin until lately. Due to the fierce competition Skyline Aviation has recently lost considerable market share. The company has not only lost the business, but also has given up a significant part of its seasoned and experienced work force in the hands of new and upcoming competition. The purpose of this document is to review and analyze some of the processes and procedures being followed and monitored to improve enterprise wide operations of Skyline Aviation. It also includes proposals to alternative practices and methodologies using Total Quality Management, Supply Chain Management and inventory control to reduce operating costs, enhance quality, increase employee morale, and find ways and means to incorporate value added innovative solutions to its existing product line. It will also suggest methods to...
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...131–163 Understanding supply chain management: critical research and a theoretical framework I. J. CHENy* and A. PAULRAJy Increasing global cooperation, vertical disintegration and a focus on core activities have led to the notion that firms are links in a networked supply chain. This strategic viewpoint has created the challenge of coordinating effectively the entire supply chain, from upstream to downstream activities. While supply chains have existed ever since businesses have been organized to bring products and services to customers, the notion of their competitive advantage, and consequently supply chain management (SCM), is a relatively recent thinking in management literature. Although research interests in and the importance of SCM are growing, scholarly materials remain scattered and disjointed, and no research has been directed towards a systematic identification of the core initiatives and constructs involved in SCM. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a research framework that improves understanding of SCM and stimulates and facilitates researchers to undertake both theoretical and empirical investigation on the critical constructs of SCM, and the exploration of their impacts on supply chain performance. To this end, we analyse over 400 articles and synthesize the large, fragmented body of work dispersed across many disciplines such as purchasing and supply, logistics and transportation, marketing, organizational dynamics, information management, strategic...
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...Mahmudul Haque Title: A Conceptual Study on the Relationship between Service Quality towards Customer Satisfaction: Servqual and Gronroosʼs Service Quality Model Perspective Journal: Asian Social Science, Vol. 8, No. 13, 2012 The article explores the effect of service quality on customer satisfation, by the use of service quality models, SERVQUAL and Gronroos. The outcome of this study is not reflected in the abstract, but it does state that suggestions for managers on implementing these concepts, are given. Both SERVQUAL and Gronroos are previously described phenomenons in service quality theory. The article seeks to compare the two models, and as a result the article takes form as a descriptive and exploratory approach. As mentioned before, the article explores service quality models, SERVQUAL and Groonroos and the article limits itself to these two service quality models and their individually limited appllication areas. The article argues that customer satisfaction is influenced by a variety of quality subjects, these include functionalty, technical, company image and service quality, and it seeks to find the effect from the aforementioned service quality models. Author: J. Will M. Bertrand and Jan C. Fresco Title: Modelling and Simulation, Operations management research methodoligies using quantitative modeling Journal: International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2002, pp. 241-264 The research question in this article can...
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...Value Chain = Supply Chain + Demand Chain: New Approaches to Creating and Capturing Sustainable Value Fanny Thublier(1), Terry Hanby (2) and Yongjiang Shi (2) Arts et Métiers ParisTech 75013 Paris, France (2) Institute for Manufacturing University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK (1) Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to develop a Value Chain conceptual model based on a combined Supply and Demand approach. Drawing primarily from the literature on Supply Chain, Demand Chain and Value Chain, modern definitions for these concepts are developed. Based on these findings, a new equation in the “value” world is introduced: “Value Chain = Supply Chain + Demand Chain”. The resultant model recognizes the growing importance of the end-consumer in the design and management of these chains and considers both the effectiveness and efficiency relationship in the Value Chain. In addition, different value perspectives for the Value Chain are suggested with particular focus on sustainable value creation and capture issues. It is anticipated that this model will be developed further in the specific context of the luxury market using case studies to develop and refine the proposed Value Chain model. Keywords: Value Chain, Supply Chain, Demand Chain, Consumer, Customer. Introduction While external forces such as economic, ecological, technological and regulatory developments are increasingly altering the global landscape, new industry trends now affect the value...
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...“The Triple-A Supply Chain”,” The Transparent Supply Chain” and the chapter 2 of the book “The new age of innovation”. These articles mainly focus on the IT-enabled innovations in business process and supply chain management. The chapter 2 tells us that business models, which depend on the underlying business processes, are a source of competitive advantage for the success of companies. Understanding the business process, and then building a unique business model that best fit the company can help the company gain a sustainable advantage over its rivals. In the article “The power of virtual integration”, the business model of Dell gives us a specific example to see how the technology and business process of Dell make this company achieve the success. From this article, an interview with Michael Dell, we realize the innovative of Dell: how it uses the technology to combine supplier partnerships, customer focus, mass customization and just-in-time manufacturing and then achieve new levels of efficiency and productivity. The article “The Triple-A Supply Chain” tells us specifically the three qualities that supply chain should possess: agile, adaptable, and aligned. Supply chain should be able to respond to unexpected changes in demand and supply and adapt to changes in the structures of markets. Only by doing so, companies can perform better than their rivals. For the supply chain, the article “The transparent supply chain” gives us another perspective toward supply chain. It introduces...
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...The Changing Role of HRD Part 1: HR Role Play and Leadership The modern day organisation depends to a great extent on the contribution and quality of its human capital. The human capital may be defined as that element of the organisation’s operational sphere that is a living, breathing part of the activities that put the innate resources and factors of production into application. This application results in profits arising out of the activities of the human capital and the efficiency with which this resource carries out its tasks. This in turn, has a bearing on the achievement of the organisation’s goals. (Johnson, 1996. P 13 to 18) This paper seeks to discuss the new role of the Human Resource element that has emerged in the organisation. This role will be discussed through the use of the following categories: - Business Partner - Change Manager - Monitor - Innovator. These four categories are most basic to the functioning of the modern day organisation. The human resource or human capital element in the organisation ahs emerged as one that perpetuates this role at every level of the organisation through an effective integration of personal and organisational goals. (Johnson, 1996. P 13 to 18) Business Partner The first role of the human resource in today’s organisation is that of a business partner. This has come to the fore with the emergence of various service oriented companies that provide intensive marketing services...
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...Student ID: 1427723 Working Title/Provisional Topic Title: Sustainable supply chain management in recycling industry: A case study of Lavergne Group in Canada. 1. Aims/objectives/Research Questions: 1.1. Research aims The aim of this study is to evaluate the problems associated with securing a reliable and cost effective sustainable supply chain in the recycling industry and elements of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM). Recycling is a relatively new industry and the amount of recycling in countries varies significantly based on Political, Industry and Community issues. Academic and corporate awareness of sustainable supply chain and logistics issues has increased significantly in recent years (Seuring and Muller, 2008). Whilst demand for recycled raw materials is consistently increasing, the prerequisites for establishing a reliable supply chain are complex. Without a reliable and cost effective supply chain, manufacturers will avoid the use of recycled materials and instead choose less environmentally friendly virgin materials. Regardless of the reason for a company going ‘Green’ and looking for sustainability, there are key market drivers and requirements for such goals to be successful. This paper will examine the key supply chain factors that are required to optimise a sustainable supply chain model with respect to recycling and utilisation of recycled products...
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