Category: Supply Chain Management
A Company’s overall success: Achieving strategic fit
Abstract: If any mismatch exists need to restructure, so that supply chain may support the competitive strategy or change the competitive strategy accordingly. Some important obstacles of achieving strategic fit are gradually increased variety of products, decreased product life…
Supply Chain Security and business management: An overview
Abstract: Standard supply chain security arrangements include: creating credentials of participants in the supply chain, finding, validating contents of cargo being shipped, notification of the contents in advance to the destination country, ensuring the security of cargo in transit using…
Drop shipping: a supply chain distribution network option
Abstract In drop-sip model, product is shipped directly from manufacturer end bypassing a retailer. Benefits of aggregation can be achieved, if the manufacturer can keep some of its inventory at the retailer end on and as needed basis. In addition,…
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5 Reason your Enterprise Need Supply Chain Integration
Abstract Supply Chain Integration help in reducing product delays by improving the efficiency of the supply chains.The product delays are largely a by-product of mismatch in information and dis-coordination between the delivery, warehousing, and trading partners.This brings visibility to all…
Understanding the “Reverse Logistics” concept and implications in Supply Chain Management
Abstract Returns avoidance, gate keeping, disposal and other supply chain issues are related with reverse logistics. The product may need to travel in reverse through the entire supply chain network to retain use of any service from the defective goods.…
How supply chain planning works: A general discussion
Abstract The uncertain nature of the customer demand need to take into consideration by generating the production plan and in particular the production quantities, to meet uncertain customer demand in the best way possible and maximize the profit, by minimizing…