Supply Chain Excellence

Supply Chain Excellence
Author: Peter Bolstorff
Publisher: AMACOM/American Management Association
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 081441771X

In this latest edition of Supply Chain Excellence, the authors provide tools for measuring financial gains linked to value chain optimisation. (Business Digest, March 2012). To keep your sales, manufacturing, distribution, and inventory moving in perfect synchronization, you need a flawless, repeatable supply chain improvement approach that maximizes process efficiency, eliminates dysfunction, and aligns disparate organizations-globally.

Supply Chain Management For Dummies

Supply Chain Management For Dummies
Author: Daniel Stanton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119410193

Everyone can impact the supply chain Supply Chain Management For Dummies helps you connect the dots between things like purchasing, logistics, and operations to see how the big picture is affected by seemingly isolated inefficiencies. Your business is a system, made of many moving parts that must synchronize to most efficiently meet the needs of your customers—and your shareholders. Interruptions in one area ripple throughout the entire operation, disrupting the careful coordination that makes businesses successful; that's where supply chain management (SCM) comes in. SCM means different things to different people, and many different models exist to meet the needs of different industries. This book focuses on the broadly-applicable Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and Enable, to describe the basic techniques and key concepts that keep businesses running smoothly. Whether you're in sales, HR, or product development, the decisions you make every day can impact the supply chain. This book shows you how to factor broader impact into your decision making process based on your place in the system. Improve processes by determining your metrics Choose the right software and implement appropriate automation Evaluate and mitigate risks at all steps in the supply chain Help your business function as a system to more effectively meet customer needs We tend to think of the supply chain as suppliers, logistics, and warehousing—but it's so much more than that. Every single person in your organization, from the mailroom to the C-suite, can work to enhance or hinder the flow. Supply Chain Management For Dummies shows you what you need to know to make sure your impact leads to positive outcomes.

International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012) Proceedings

International Asia Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Innovation (IEMI2012) Proceedings
Author: Ershi Qi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 1666
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642384455

The International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management is sponsored by the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institution, CMES, which is the only national-level academic society for Industrial Engineering. The conference is held annually as the major event in this arena. Being the largest and the most authoritative international academic conference held in China, it provides an academic platform for experts and entrepreneurs in the areas of international industrial engineering and management to exchange their research findings. Many experts in various fields from China and around the world gather together at the conference to review, exchange, summarize and promote their achievements in the fields of industrial engineering and engineering management. For example, some experts pay special attention to the current state of the application of related techniques in China as well as their future prospects, such as green product design, quality control and management, supply chain and logistics management to address the need for, amongst other things low-carbon, energy-saving and emission-reduction. They also offer opinions on the outlook for the development of related techniques. The proceedings offers impressive methods and concrete applications for experts from colleges and universities, research institutions and enterprises who are engaged in theoretical research into industrial engineering and engineering management and its applications. As all the papers are of great value from both an academic and a practical point of view, they also provide research data for international scholars who are investigating Chinese style enterprises and engineering management.

Business Modeling and Software Design

Business Modeling and Software Design
Author: Boris Shishkov
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2018-06-29
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 331994214X

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design, BMSD 2018, held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2018. The 14 full papers and 21 short papers selected for inclusion in this book deal with a large number of research topics: (i) Some topics concern Business Processes (BP), such as BP modeling / notations / visualizations, BP management, BP variability, BP contracting, BP interoperability, BP modeling within augmented reality, inter-enterprise collaborations, and so on; (ii) Other topics concern Software Design, such as software ecosystems, specification of context-aware software systems, service-oriented solutions and micro-service architectures, product variability, software development monitoring, and so on; (iii) Still other topics are crosscutting with regard to business modeling and software design, such as data analytics as well as information security and privacy; (iv) Other topics concern hot technology / innovation areas, such as blockchain technology and internet-of-things. Underlying with regard to all those topics is the BMSD’18 theme: Enterprise Engineering and Software Engineering - Processes and Systems for the Future.

Financial Intelligence for Supply Chain Managers

Financial Intelligence for Supply Chain Managers
Author: Steven J. Leon
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0133838641

Discover how your supply chain and operations work impacts financial performance, and how to align your efforts to help your company succeed — the fastest, best way to supercharge your own career! As a supply chain or operations professional, you may clearly understand your operational performance goals. But if you want to get promoted, you need to know how your day-to-day work powerfully impacts the financial metrics your top executives care about most.

The SCOR model as an effective tool for measuring Supply Chain Performance

The SCOR model as an effective tool for measuring Supply Chain Performance
Author:
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 41
Release: 2018-07-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3668745099

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 2,5, University of Applied Sciences Fulda, language: English, abstract: The main objective of this paper is to analyse the Supply Chain Operation Reference (SCOR) model as an effective instrument for measuring Supply Chain Performance. At the end a conclusion will be drawn based on the investigation carried out and a future perspective will be mentioned. The 21st Century has been characterized by drastic advances in product development and shorter product life cycles. The customer nowadays places a lot of emphasis on delivery times. Thus, rushing the right products to the end-user has been the main objective of most companies. More so, in order to maintain strategic advantages companies have to improve their prices in order to maintain their market shares. Supply Chain management is thus the strategic weapon needed by most global firms nowadays to stay on top of their game. Given that raw materials and the manufacturing processes take place at different locations and even continents. The coordination of information, materials and financial flow is therefore imperative in order for the smooth and swift flow of data and products to be ensured. Assessing and measuring the performance of processes along the entire supply chain is thus recommended. So that every Supply Chain partner in the SC-Network will benefit from the partnership. Therefore the question arises: Which instrument can be effectively used to measure the performance of a Supply Chain. Companies have to measure their Supply Chain Performance in order to have a clear sense of direction. By setting goals based on performance variables, measuring them and following them up. It is possible to create an improving business pattern that is in line with the company ́s strategic goals. Companies have to measure and assess the processes involved along their entire supply chain. By so doing they can improve their efficiency, share best practices and improve their overall supply chain performance. There are many instruments used for measuring supply chain performance. Nevertheless using the most effective of them will guarantee better results.

Essentials of Supply Chain Management

Essentials of Supply Chain Management
Author: Michael H. Hugos
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119464463

The bestselling guide to the field, updated with the latest innovations Essentials of Supply Chain Management is the definitive guide to the field, providing both broad coverage and necessary detail from a practical, real-world perspective. From clear explanation of fundamental concepts to insightful discussion of supply chain innovation, this book offers students and professionals a comprehensive introduction with immediately-applicable understanding. The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the current state of the field, with coverage of the latest technologies and new case studies that illustrate critical concepts in action. Organized for easy navigation and ease-of-use, this invaluable guide also serves as a quick reference for managers in the field seeking tips and techniques for maximizing efficiency and turning the supply chain into a source of competitive advantage. The supply chain underpins the entire structure of manufacturing and retailing. Well-run, it can help a company become a global behemoth—or, if poorly-managed, it can sink a company before the product ever sees the light of day. The supply chain involves many moving parts, constantly-changing variables, and a network of other business that may have different priorities and interests—keeping it all running smoothly is a complex, but immensely powerful skill. This book takes you inside the supply chain to show you what you need to know. Understand the fundamental concepts behind supply chain management Learn how supply chains work, and how to measure their performance Explore the ways in which innovation is improving supply chains around the world Examine the supply chain as a source of competitive advantage Whether you’re at the front or the back of your supply chain, your business is affected by every other company and event in the chain. Deep understanding and a host of practical skills are required to accurately predict, react to, and manage the ever-changing stream of events that could potentially disrupt the flow. Essentials of Supply Chain Management prepares you to take on the challenge and succeed.

Reverse Logistics

Reverse Logistics
Author: Rommert Dekker
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2013-06-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 354024803X

This book addresses decision making in reverse logistics, which concerns the integration of used and obsolete products back into the supply chain as valuable resources. It covers a wide range of aspects, related to distribution, production and inventory management, and supply chain management. For each topic, it highlights key managerial issues in real-life examples and explains which quantitative models are available for addressing them. By treating a broad range of issues in a unified way, the book offers the reader a comprehensive view on the field of reverse logistics.