... chain management research (e.g. McCarthy et al., 2018; Quarshie et al., 2016). Findings The study illuminates how retailers have bolstered their dominant position through using sustainable supply chains to exert further control over their suppliers. The management of sustainable...

...Anders Richtnér; Pär Åhlström Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of top management control in stimulating innovation through their effect on the creation of knowledge in new product development (NPD) projects. Top management has a crucial role in stimulating innovation...

...Patrik Jonsson; Stig‐Arne Mattsson The applicability of manufacturing planning and control methods differs between environments. This paper explains the fit between the planning environment and material and capacity planning on the detailed material planning and shop‐floor planning levels...

...Graham Godfrey; Barrie Dale; Mick Marchington; Adrian Wilkinson Increased control of the process through, for example, reduction of special and common causes of variation, is fundamental to total quality management (TQM), yet this is one of the main areas targeted by its critics. However...

...Rambabu Kodali Decision making in Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) is difficult because of their high complexity level. The operational level of FMS is concerned with the detailed decision making required for real‐time operation. This applies to various control problems such as selection...

... explored for sources of implementation methodologies and yielded a number of attributes for successful implementation. The emergent structure was then validated against field studies. The result,a methodology for improving control, is a three‐level hierarchy. The first level assesses the ability...

... lines are examined. The same analysis will be repeated for assembly type of production lines (merging lines). A key concept in this article is the“long pull” (or constant work‐in‐process inventory) Kanban system. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Production management Kanban Buffer stock Control...

...D.J. Woodcock Companies measuring by “traditional” internally focused control measures have been found to be lagging through concentrating on efficiency rather than the causes of loss of control. It is argued here that those with more dynamic external focus, in which the role of production managers...

... to the equivalent unconstrained problem. © MCB UP Limited 1989 Inventory Control Management Technical Paper: Multi-item On the Relationship between Replenishment Problems Constrained and Unconstrained Multi-item Replenishment 77 Problems by J.S. Dagpunar Received May 1988 Revised September 1988...

...K.G. Lockyer; R.M. Wynne The control of “Raw Materials and Consumables” is frequently the responsibility of the Production/ Operations Manager. Figures are given for the magnitude of these, both nationally and in a hypothetical company. The weakness of the conventional “Stock Turn” or “Stock...