...John Storey; Caroline Emberson; David Reade Purpose It has been suggested that “customer responsive supply‐chain management” and “agile supply‐chain management” are necessary for the new competitive conditions. However, there is an enormous gap between the idealised prescription and actual...

... by the European Union, whose share is 37 per cent [2] . © MCB UP Limited 2003 Logistics Strategy Supply‐chain management Dairy industry Agriculture New Zealand In the very first chapter of their well‐known textbook on logistics management, Stock and Lambert (2001) presented an account...

... areas of the supply chain. Developing suppliers are first‐tier suppliers that are positioning themselves to supply on a modular basis. Such positioning is likely to involve the development of supply chain management skills, the acquisition of key areas of the supply chain and the development...

... to the process. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Supply‐chain management Green issues Environmental audit Business strategy The concepts pertaining to greening the supply chain or supply chain environmental management (SCEM) are usually understood by industry as screening suppliers...

...Hugo Rivard‐Royer; Sylvain Landry; Martin Beaulieu Due to the diversity of its players, the American healthcare sector has experimented with different types of integrated supply chain management systems for medical supplies. In the 1980s, US distributors were offering customers the so‐called...

... methodology provides a tool for identifying and measuring four classes of operational complexity transfer corresponding to the extent to which organisations generate, absorb, export and import operational complexity. © MCB UP Limited 2002 Suppliers Customers Supply‐chain management Methodology...

... chain. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Vendor rating Analytical hierarchy process Supply‐chain management During the last decade, the business environment all over the globe has experienced significant changes. In particular, the purchasing environment has become one of the most crucial...

... of logistics has expanded to cover purchasing, distribution, inventory management, packaging, manufacturing, and even customer service (Titone, 1996; Bowersox and Closs, 1996). Supply‐chain management Logistics Singapore © MCB UP Limited 2001 To the best of our knowledge, studies...

... this context to facilitate the development of Internet‐based manufacturing planning and control. Planning Supply‐chain management Internet Manufacturing Information systems The objective of the Dynamic Operations Management Across the Internet (DOMAIN) research project (Kehoe and Boughton, 1998...

... by internal practices. © MCB UP Limited 2001 Supply‐chain management Performance Surveys Theory Quality management Operations management When customers make decisions to place purchase orders, the time performances of potential suppliers are widely acknowledged as fundamental...

...Pietro Romano; Andrea Vinelli Supply chain management (SCM) is conceived by academics and practitioners as either an extension of logistics or an all‐encompassing approach to business integration. From the authors’ point of view, SCM involves not only logistic activities but also other processes...

... Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) has issued a series of “best practice” cases and booklets on supply chain management which focus almost exclusively on large companies. (For an overview, see New, 1996.) Empirical work on inter‐organizational relationships has led to a general agreement that various...

...A. Gunasekaran; C. Patel; E. Tirtiroglu Supply-chain management Performance measurement Customer satisfaction In today’s markets, technological and competitive forces are changing at an ever-increasing rate. To respond to these forces, radical changes in organizations have become...

... studies. Finally, a new categorisation for supply networks is presented, using the type of product as a differentiator. Networks Product innovation Supply‐chain management Classification According to the resource‐based view, firms should seek to gain ownership of or access to valuable, rare...

...‐sized enterprises Case studies Supply‐chain management Many of the companies that have implemented TQM are large multinational corporations (MNCs) such as IBM, British Airways, Hewlett‐Packard, Motorola, etc. Except for the very few, in small businesses many are still lagging behind when...

...Keah‐Choon Tan; Vijay R. Kannan; Robert B. Handfield; Soumen Ghosh Total quality management, supply base management, customer driven corporate policy, and other elements of supply chain management are frequently cited as strategic options to achieve competitive success in the 1990s. However...

... in a logarithmic co‐ordinate system. From the Figure 2a we see that the demand time series is stable around the period average and that surges and dips are both relatively small. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Supply‐chain management Logistics Systems analysis In nature, simple deterministic...

.... Supply‐chain management Warehousing Order picking Heuristics © MCB UP Limited 1999 The research on warehouse storage policies is fairly limited. Schwarz et al. (1978) examined the performance of an automated warehouse with random and volume‐based storage. In addition, Gibson...

... MCB UP Limited 1999 Purchasing Communications technology Supply-chain management Strategy USA The volume of electronic commerce (EC) for US business transactions is expected to increase from $8 billion in 1996 to $327 billion by the year 2002 (Radstaak and Ketelaar, 1998...

...Bert Meijboom Principles of supply chain management are discussed in relation to the modifications, extensions, and challenges currently prevalent in internationally operating companies. The central issue is: How do international operations affect common SCM principles? First, insights from...