Supply chain

Case Study of Creating Agile Supply Chains in the Fashion Industry Fashion market must typically exhibit the well functioning short-life-cycles, high volatility, low predictability and high impulse purchasing. Today’s fashions market place is highly competitive and there is an inevitable move by many retailers to extend the number of seasons which with the entire merchandise within a store is change. The operations of fashion businesses imply a trend for supply chain management, which in effect…

Technology in a Five Layer Supply Chain” is a research paper written by Ygal Bendavid, Elisabeth Lefebvre, Louis A. Lefebvre, and Samuel Fosso Wamba École Polytechnique de Montréal. This paper focus is to track the key performance marks to measure the effects of RFID technology in a five-layer supply chain management system for the utility sector. While the main objective is to expand, the reader understanding of the possible effects of RFID technology with dealing with supply chain.…

Purchasing and material management have evolved over the years and there are many roles we play as supply chain managers. One of your roles as a supply chain managers be the ability to negotiate. Accounting to Monzcka (p. 480) “we define negotiation as a process of formal communication, either face-to-face or via electronic means, where two or more people, groups or organizations come together to seek mutual agreement about an issue or issues”. Negotiation is a skill that takes some time to…

Real Time Analytics in Supply Chain Paradigm shift Over a decade, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way information is generated and handled in society. The change is driven by various factors: our vastly increasing ability to store and perform computation over very large sets of data; and most importantly the introduction of Internet of Things. The amounts of data available when making decisions or keeping an overview is enormous and is produced at ever increasing rates and the…

Application Flexible and responsive supply chain strategies are important for business managers to fully comprehend. In general, a responsive supply chain strategy is suitable for firms that offer a variety of innovative or customized products tailored to specific customer demands and taste (Roh, Hong, & Min, 2014). A traditional supply chain, which focuses on cost-efficiency and stability, faces serious challenges that responsive supply chains tend to avoid (Roh, Hong, & Min, 2014). However…

Rizal | DPM5A Nurfariza Hanim Binti Zulkefli | DPM5A Wan Nur Arina Binti Wan Zubaidi | DPM5A Nur Hamira Binti Hamdan | DPM5A Muhammad Ariff Bin Zamri | DPM5A Introduction Procurement can be define as is the acquisition of goods or services in supply chain management. It is the goods or services that are very favourable and appropriate. Besides, they are procured at the best cost to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location that specified. The factors…

improve Acer’s supply chain model. As it relates to business operations, Acer could benefit greatly by utilizing standard contracts worldwide with its customers. This will allow Acer to supply standardized superior services across the board when inquiries arise. When it comes to value added services, and end to end model will greatly enhance Acer’s supply chain model. End to end value chain innovation will allow Acer to utilize a horizontal value chain as opposed to a vertical value chain.…

there are those involved in the world of supply chain and operations that strive daily to match the pace of a world that fails to ever slow down. With new technologies driving new trends, it is mind-boggling to even being to consider the complexities that go on with supply chain and sustaining operations. That is why we must start by looking at the basics of supply chain management and operations management. History of Supply Chain What is supply chain? This is a term that, since the 80’s,…

Supply chain is the department name but our team focuses on the implementations. This team works closely with the operations team on providing detailed information on product conversions such as the current product and how it compares to the future product. As the Implementation Manager for the Saint Thomas Health system, my role is to ensure contract compliance and develop new processes to ensure the quality of customer care. The Saint Thomas Health system consist of eight hospitals; West,…

Supply chain: The supply chain is the network and of businesses and people who work together to move raw materials into finished products and later to the end user. Supply chain management is the integration and coordination of all supply activities to provide best product or service to the customer, reduce cost and time in the best possible way. Information plays a vital role in supply chain management. Information sharing has improved the way the companies do their business with their…