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- Chain-Store Pricing and the Structure of Retail Markets
- This paper investigates competition between chain-stores and independents in the UK opticians' industry, using the relationship between the number of outlets present in a local market and the market size. Chain-stores are shown to have a significant effect on local market competition. In addition, the empirical approach is extended to...
- White papers 2006-04-01
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- Coordinating Supply Chain Data
- The article says that with American businesses losing billions of dollars in sales every year from supply chain inefficiencies, companies need solutions that let them provide exactly the right data and goods to the right customers, partners and employees at exactly the right places and times. But many organizations' financial,...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Motorola's Battle With Supply And Demand Chain Complexity
- Motorola, now entering its third year of battle with the complexity in its supply and demand chain, scored solid victories in 2002. Its Personal Communications Sector PCS, responsible for 41 percent of the firm's $26.7 billion in annual sales, launched the lion's share of its supply and demand chain initiatives....
- White papers 2003-05-01
- Supply Chain Strategy: The Importance Of Aligning Your Strategies
- Chances are you've heard the term supply chain strategy. Used informally, it is often confused with supply chain management, where supply chain operations controlled to reduce costs. There's some truth to this definition, but supply chain strategy really is broader; it defines how the supply chain should operate in order...
- White papers 2005-06-15
- Six Steps to a More Flexible Supply Chain
- The Find: With commodity prices, the availability of credit and currency valuations swinging wildly, one management consultancy believes companies need a more flexible supply chain and is offering a strategy to help them get one. The Source: A report entitled "Lowering the Volatility Quotient with a Flexible...
- Blog posts 2009-01-08
- Make the Most of Supply Chain Analytics
- Dell, Apple, your local grocery store -- all these companies share a common concern: supply chain management. From the initial forecast to final delivery, coordinating activities in a supply chain is a big challenge. But if you do it right, the ROI is huge. Usually the challenge boils down to...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Flow Manufacturing is the Essential Component in Your Supply Chain Strategy
- The article tells that the industry has got a new ERP System to back bone the company's information management infrastructure. Now the industry is entering the new age of Supply Chain Management trying to tie all the nodes of the supply chain together so that materials flow seamlessly along a...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Creating Supply Chain Value With Cycle Time and Inventory Yield
- A supply chain is not a series of links forged together for a common purpose. That is a nice image. However it minimizes the reality of the chain and how each link in that chain must design its own logistics process to function within the chain. As a result, there...
- White papers
- Logistics And Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- As competition becomes more global, innovation is moving from a firm-to-firm level to a supply chain versus supply chain perspective. Canadian firms must develop supply chain agility in a Just-In-Time JIT and mass customisation mode. This paper explains measurement of logistics and Supply Chain Management SCM Key Performance Indicators KPI...
- White papers 2006-10-01
- Supply-Chain Operations Reference-model
- "The Supply Chain Operations Reference-model SCOR has been developed and endorsed by the Supply-Chain Council SCC, an independent not-for-profit corporation, as the cross-industry standard for supply-chain management. This model process reference model is designed for effective communication among supply-chain partners. It also describe, measureand evaluate Supply-Chain configurations. Standard SCOR...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Logistics Process for Supply Chain Management – An Insight to it.
- A supply chain is not a series of links forged together for a common purpose. It is a nice image. However it minimizes the reality of the chain and how each link in that chain must design its own logistics process to function within the chain. As a result, there...
- White papers 2003-09-10
- The Supply Chain Management Processes
- "Increasingly, supply chain management is being recognized as the management of key business processes across the network of organizations that comprise the supply chain. While many have recognized the benefits of a process approach to managing the business and the supply chain, most are vague about what processes are to...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- The E-Supply Chain Is Coming and Fast
- "The importance of e-commerce to manufacturing and distribution is undoubtedly in supply chain management. If high-speed, low-cost communication and collaboration with your customers and suppliers are critical success factors for effective supply chain management, then the e-chain is in your future. The very essence of supply chain management is effective...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supply Chain Intelligence
- Supply Chain Intelligence is a new initiative that provides the capability to extract, sense, and analyze information about a supply chain. It enhances an executive's ability to reason through business outcomes and prescribes the best course of action for focusing an organization on the highest impact activities. This paper will...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Supply Chain Holy Grail : How the Supply Chain Will E-ffect Sales Forces
- Since the explosion of e-commerce, supply chain professionals have been theorizing about a Holy Grail. Like the knights of Arthurian legends, supply chain software providers have been searching for a mythical system that will seamlessly link the entire supply chain. The Holy Grail of supply chain management is an integrated...
- White papers 2002-10-14
- Measuring the Impact of Supply Chain Performance
- The article suggests how to achieve continuous improvement in supply chain. It provides a step-by-step guide for using the supply chain council's SCOR Model that measures both business and supply chain performance from a process point of view. It is based on delivery performance, order fulfillment lead time, supply chain...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Supply-Chain Management
- The supply chain forms the backbone of an organization. It consists of the dealer and distributor network and extends right up to the source of the raw materials. The product passes through different stages of its development and moves from the source of raw materials to the market along the...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Lean Supply Chain Management
- From the executive summary: ‘Lean is how a properly designed and operated supply chain should function. A lean supply-chain process has been streamlined to reduce and eliminate waste or non-value added activities to the total supply-chain flow and to the products moving within the supply chain. Waste can be measured...
- White papers 2004-06-18
- Logistics Process For Supply Chain Management
- From the executive summary: ‘Supply chain is not a series of links forged together for a common purpose. That is a nice image. However, it minimizes the reality of the chain and how each link in that chain must design its own logistics process to function within the chain. As...
- White papers 2002-07-01
- Value-Chain Report-Proactively Manage Your Supply-Chain Strategy
- From the executive summary: ‘The challenge for management is not to become complacent about the supply chain, but to continually assess supply-chain effectiveness and the ability of the supply chain to contribute significantly to overall strategic objectives of the company. This must become a proactive process with a focus on...
- White papers 2001-06-04
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