Supply chainsIn this paper, we explore how firms can manage their raw material sourcing better by developing appropriate sourcing relationships with their raw material suppliers. We detail three empirical case studies of firms explaining their different raw material sourcing strategies: (a) firms can ...
As supply chains become more unpredictable, the more challenging it becomes to manage pricing. No one understands this more than metal formers and fabricators. Hot-rolled coil steel prices have soared by 30 percent or more in recent months. Before the latest price increases, the largest price ...
For instance, a global construction materials firm recently traced one of its key supply chains, which extends from bauxite mines (raw material) to aluminum window-frame (finished product) retailers. It found that the bauxite was mined mainly in Guinea, Australia, Vietnam, and Brazil; alumina ...
Managing RFID projects in organizationsArticleRadio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are gaining widespread popularity throughout the supply chain from raw material acquisition, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, retailing to the ultimate consumers. A majority of extant literature in this area ...
China Paradigm, dairy milk industries, dairy product, dairy products market China, international trade, interview entrepreneurs in China, Logistics in China, milk in china, supply chains in China Find here the China paradigm episode 97. Learn more about the Chinese food industry during the virus...
1-1ManagingQualityIntegratingtheSupplyChainS.ThomasFosterChapter1DifferingPerspectivesonQuality(©2007PearsonEducation01/16–6:00AM1-2MajorThemes Today,supplychainscompete,notindividualfirms. Afirm’ssupplychain,upstreamanddownstream,constrainsandenablesthefirm. Firm’smustmanagequalityintheirsupplychain,upstreaman...
Raw material shortages When there’s a problem at one of the farms, manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution centers, or shipping companies in your supply chain, it tends to affect all downstream entities — including your restaurant. As a result, you may have a hard time getting one or...
without logistical support.It involves the integration of information,transportation,inventory,warehousing,material handling,and packaging.The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials,work in process,and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost ...
A2022 survey by IndustryWeek and Jabildug a little deeper into the specific challenges facing automotive supply chains. The survey polled 100 professionals at various levels and in various roles at automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) around the world. Suppliercomponent and material shorta...
This study describes a structural decomposition analysis (SDA) of Japanese greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 1990 to 2005, focusing on four linkage structures in the Leontief inverse representing supply chains in Japan. The developed RAS-invariant decomposition was applied to Japanese linked input–...