..., operational and customer-related reasons (Muir and Reynolds, 2011 ; Shah, 2019). The strategic planning of firms from higher-level business strategies (missions and goals) to supply chain strategies (operational and tactical actions) affects product development and management (Rivas et al., 2020...

...Claudia Vásquez Rojas; Eduardo Roldán Reyes; Fernando Aguirre y Hernández; Guillermo Cortés Robles Purpose Strategic planning (SP) enables enterprises to plan management and operations activities efficiently in the medium and large term. During its implementation, many processes and methods...

...Shekhar Shukla; B.K. Mohanty; Ashwani Kumar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight an innovative approach to explore and evaluate the sustainability perspectives in e-commerce channels for additive manufacturing (AM). This approach helps the stakeholders to perform strategic planning...

... empirically examined. This study clarifies this issue. Supply chain management Environmental uncertainty Power regimes Strategic planning Cluster analysis Our research methods included, first, data collection by a survey, followed by cluster analysis to classify the power circumstances...

... of the organisation and that serves as a base for the implementation of an information system aligned with the business strategy. Design/methodology/approach After an exhaustive review of literature about corporate social responsibility, strategic planning of organisations and balanced scorecards (BSCs...

... Communication technologies Strategic planning IT investment has been an important issue to senior executives as IT investment is one of the major budget items in most businesses. Management literature has shown contradictory results on the impact of IT investments on performance (Sircar et al...

...‐pekka.hilmola@lut.fi © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Simulation Manufacturing systems Strategic planning Simulation research related to automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems is as well established as the manufacturing systems simulation discipline; in real‐life these two systems...

..., strategy implementation, and strategic control are highly interrelated, and essential to the survival of the company. Sun Tzu argued that before deciding how to attack (or defend), one has to evaluate: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Strategic management Strategic planning...

...: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Supply Strategic planning Performance measures Supply chain management At stage three, the developed objective choice circle and decision choice model are put together to enable managers to analyse and compare the pattern of strategy...

... Limited 2003 Supply chain Strategic planning Model Research Current models for supply chain management (SCM) agree that the sharing of business information is a crucial element, which binds supply chains together from end‐to‐end (e.g. Cooper et al., 1997; Schary and Skjøtt...

... which was conducted on seven global companies operating in Singapore. Two frameworks were applied to analyze the nature and extent of integration of environmental management practices into the organizational strategic planning process. The study reveals that the majority of the sample companies have...

... change Resource management Strategic planning Time United Kingdom USA Value analysis PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS RESTRUCTURING 3 T ime-based systems can restore the competitive advantage of ailing British and American manufacturers. Production and Operations Restructuring: Using Time-based...

...D.T. Brownlie The successful placing of long‐range technology planning decisions in the context of overall corporate strategic planning requires a mechanism for synthesizing R&D strategy and business strategy. This article argues that formalized technology forecasting has an important...

...Jack Andin Wu; Nesa L′abbe Wu Since its introduction in the mid‐1970s, Saaty′s Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been applied to a variety of decision problems. A new area of application is introduced in this article. We present here the application of the AHP to a strategic planning problem...

... language and German literature are integrated in the globalisation field. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Corporate culture International marketing Strategic planning GLOBALISATION STRATEGIES: THEIR IMPLEMENTATION 3 W orldwide marketing strategies are subject to much controversy the conditions...

... toolset and Ernst & Young's Navigator System Series Methodology. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Information systems Strategic planning Systems design ...

... of JIT at Cummins Engine Company. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Just‐in‐time Process design Production management Production planning Research Strategic planning TOTAL JUST-IN-TIME 3 J IT is a philosophy as well as a technique, a process not a production tool. Its successful use depends...

... the company′s strategic plan, one should develop a common set of planning assumptions, on the basis of which projects are first selected. A formal manual should be prepared, setting standards for the evaluation process. Financial approaches can help quantify the many risks associated with a project...

... strategic plans more efficiently. It also enables managers to align forecasting systems and information systems with manufacturing objectives and strategies. Looking Ahead Forecasting intelligence is a natural extension of manufacturing strategy activities; more important, it is a recognition...

... stock rather than ourselves. Companies' strategic planning processes begin perhaps with a SWOT analysis and then define plans for exploiting new and existing markets, products and services. They define investment in manufacturing capacity (buildings, plant and equipment), people (management, training...