Category Archives: Supply Chain
Scorecard use and Strategic Alignment in Non-Profit Organizations : a Case Study of UNICEF Supply Division
This study mirror prior findings on Balanced Scorecard use in the non-profit sector, it has given the case study organization valuable insight on important measurement parameters, strategy mapping and other areas of improvement. Based on a case study of UNICEF [...]
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Performance measurement in agri-food Supply Chains
Choice of appropriate Supply Chain performance indicators is rather complicated due to the presence of multiple inputs and multiple outputs in the system. read more
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Debunking the Top Eight Myths Surrounding Small-business Warehouse Management Systems
The era of manual warehouse operations is drawing to a close—with good reason. No matter how efficient your employees are, managing space and maintaining inventory with adhoc spreadsheets or legacy systems doesn’t provide the accuracy or visibility into the supply [...]
Lean Procurement
DEMAND-DRIVEN SUPPLY CHAINS AND LEAN PROCUREMENT
In today’s demand-driven manufacturing and supply chain world, a company faces growing challenges around market volatility, long lead times and forecasting errors. The inventory management decisions can make or break the firm’s financial bottom line. [...]
Bull Whip Effect In SCM
INTRODUCTION
The unmanaged supply chain is not a stable production concept by itself. Demand variability continuously fluctuates along the supply chain and goes up as one moves up the supply chain away from the retail consumer. Large variations in orders placed [...]
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Designing efficient supply chain management system of paper
Can the SCM for Paper be made more efficient? The answer is an obvious yes!
Some experts often use "from the forest to the door" to describe the scope of supply chain management, supply chain management, border paper should include [...]
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Supply Chain Management and Telecom Components
The telecom industry’s radical shift this year from a supply-driven marketplace to a demand-driven model has significantly impacted not only how carriers market and sell their products, but how they purchase their own network equipment. In the current economic climate, [...]
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UNDERSTANDING VALUE STREAM MAPPING
Value stream mapping is a lean manufacturing technique used to analyze the flow of materials and information currently required to bring a product or service to a consumer. At Toyota, where the technique originated, it is known as "material and [...]
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Collaborative materials management : A choosing between competitive and collaborative approaches to materials management in SCM
Supply Chain Management (SCM) presents the new paradigm in strategic and operational business management for the 21st century. By offering a cooperative and integrated model of the value-creation process in a cross-organizational perspective, it also places new challenges on business [...]