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White Papers
Creating Advantage From Adversity
Jan 2009
By putting in place rigorous approaches to manage both the supply of goods and services as well as the demand for them, procurement departments can help to enhance significantly their business's...
Provided by Accenture
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Case Studies
Sony Canada Launches New High Velocity Supply Chain
Jan 2010
When Sony Canada wanted to improve its supply chain management capabilities in the consumer electronics marketing, sales and distribution division, they had a clear vision in mind. The enhancement...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
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White Papers
External Resource Sourcing: Does Experience Help Firms Select Governance Modes?
Nov 2008
This paper explores whether firms make better governance choices as they gain experience in different modes of governing external resource sourcing, modes that include acquisitions, alliances, and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Inventory In Vertical Relationships With Private Information And Interdependent Values
Feb 2010
This paper studies if borrowers optimally conserve debt capacity to take advantage of investment opportunities due to temporarily low asset prices, when financing is subject to collateral...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation
Nov 2007
In a decentralized supply chain, double marginalization is an important source of inefficiency. This paper suggests a simple mechanism to reduce it, that uses a wholesale price contract and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Myopic Inventory Policies Using Individual Customer Arrival Information
Nov 2007
This paper investigates optimality of myopic policies using the single-unit decomposition approach in inventory management. This paper derives, under certain conditions, closed-form replenishment...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Competing For Shelf Space
Nov 2007
This paper studies competition for shelf space in a multi-supplier retail point. This paper considers a retailer that seeks to allocate her shelf space to maximize her profit. Because products...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
Feb 2010
Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand,...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Inventory Control With Generalized Expediting
Nov 2007
The authors consider a single-item, periodic review inventory control problem where discrete stochastic demand must be satisfied. When shortages occur, the unmet demand must be filled by some form...
Provided by Washington University Olin
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White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
Apr 2010
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
Nov 2009
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Tight Credit Is Choking Many Small Suppliers: Watch For Weakened Suppliers To Require Financial Support From Customers
Dec 2009
The major defense and aerospace giants are riding out the worst global economic meltdown in generations with their financial health largely unscathed. But the tens of thousands of small companies...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
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Whitepapers
Do Technology And Information Really Create Supply Chain Gains?
Sep 2009
Supply chain managers crave innovative ways to cut costs and streamline systems. Often, they turn to technology, hoping for big savings and process improvements. But not every tool that promises...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
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White Papers
A Capacitated Commodity Trading Model With Market Power
Jan 2008
The authors consider in this paper the problem of a trader that may purchase a commodity in one market and resell it in another. The trader is capacitated: the trading volume is limited by...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
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White Papers
Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
Nov 2007
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Global Dual Sourcing Strategies
Jun 2009
Many researchers say that their greatest flashes of inspiration come not from extraordinary events but from everyday activities. Intuitive leaps are triggered by observing life unfolding around...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Learning From Zillow And Zoots
Jan 2009
Zillow is also notable for its approach to managing the service process. Providing real estate appraisals is by no means a new business. The novelty of Zillow is that it gathers the necessary data...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
The Newsvendor With Pricing: A Stochastic Elasticity Perspective
Sep 2007
This paper introduces a measure of elasticity of stochastic demand, called the elasticity of lost sales, which offers a unifying perspective on the well-known newsvendor with pricing problem. This...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Supply Chain Coordination With Revenue-Sharing Contracts: A Missed Opportunity?
Jul 2007
Coordinating the supply of a product with consumer demand is crucial to the success of any business. Consider, for example, the plight of a video retailer dealing with a capacity problem. Peak...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information And Flexible Deliveries
Jul 2009
In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, the authors...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
The Hollow Corporation Revisited: Can Governance Mechanisms Substitute For Technical Expertise In Managing Buyer-Supplier Relationships?
Oct 2009
This paper considers how a firm's system of exchange skills including internal technical expertise and supplier governance mechanisms influence supplier performance, both independently and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Evaluation Of Cycle-Count Policies For Supply Chains With Inventory Inaccuracy And Implications On RFID Investments
Nov 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Coordination Mechanisms In Decentralized Serial Inventory Systems With Batch Ordering
Feb 2009
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial supply chain in which materials are ordered and shipped according to R(nQ) policies. Three information scenarios are considered, depending on the level...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Optimizing Replenishment Intervals For Two-Echelon Distribution Systems With Fixed Order Costs
Mar 2010
The authors consider a periodic-review inventory system with one warehouse and N non-identical retailers. Each location has a positive lead time and orders according to a base-stock policy in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Single-Stage Bounds For Optimal Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Non-Stationary Demand
Mar 2010
This paper considers a two-stage serial inventory system with a finite planning horizon. The downstream stage, referred to as stage 1, orders from stage 2, which orders from an external supplier...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Inventory Management Of A Fast-Fashion Retail Network
Aug 2007
Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, Authors address the problem of distributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion retail network....
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
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White Papers
Evaluation Of Supply Chains With Inventory Record Inaccuracy And Implications On IT Investments
Mar 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
The Customer Value Proposition Should Drive Supply Chain Design: An Example In Mass Retailing
Oct 2009
A successful company typically starts with a deep understanding of customer needs in a segment and translates these needs into a value proposition. Then it develops its supply chain capability to...
Provided by IMD
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White Papers
Spread Components In The Hungarian Forint-Euro Market
Jan 2010
The authors apply the spread decomposition model by Huang and Stoll (1997) to a new data set on the Hungarian Forint-Euro market. The results show differences between the small and less liquid...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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White Papers
Quality, Operational Logistics Strategy, And Repurchase Intentions: A Profile Deviation Analysis
Oct 2007
The last decade has seen an increased focus on eBusiness as a method to create customer-driven value in a firm's logistics operations (e.g., Boyer and Olson 2002; Esper et al. 2003; Rodrigues,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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White Papers
Optimal And Heuristic Echelon (s; T) Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Costs
Dec 2007
This paper considers a periodic-review, serial inventory system with echelon (s; T) policies. This paper assumes that a fixed cost is incurred for each inventory review, and provides a method to...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Serial Supply Chains With Economies Of Scale: Bounds And Approximations
Aug 2007
The authors consider two models of stochastic serial inventory systems with economies of scale for which the forms of optimal policies are known. In the first model, each stage has a fixed-order...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Optimal and Heuristic Echelon (r; nQ; T) Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Costs
Aug 2008
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial inventory system in which echelon (r; nQ; T) policies are implemented. Under such a policy, each stage reviews its inventory in every T period and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Slotting Allowances And Endogenous Shelf Space
Jun 2009
Slotting allowances are upfront payments that manufacturers make to retailers to obtain shelf space. They are widespread in the grocery industry and are of concern to antitrust policy makers...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Seeking Inventory Control Answers Via Research. Incomplete Inventory Information: The Next Challenge In Inventory Control
Jul 2008
Inventory control is one of the most important topics in management science. A systematic analysis of inventory problems began with the development of the classical Economic Order Quantity formula...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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White Papers
The Evolution Of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research
Feb 2008
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the field of closed-loop supply chains with a strong business perspective, i.e., the authors focus on profitable value recovery from...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Supplier Networks, The OEM Hub And Sourcing Efficiency
Oct 2007
in this paper, the authors explore how sourcing costs within a firm's supply chain can be better managed by managing upstream supply network of the .rm. Building on the three-year empirical...
Provided by INSEAD
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White Papers
Demand Estimation And Assortment Optimization Under Substitution: Methodology And Application
Dec 2007
Assortment planning at a retailer entails both selecting the set of products to be carried and setting inventory levels for each product. The authors study an assortment planning model in which...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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White Papers
Applying The 80/20 Rule To Your Inventory
Apr 2010
The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, simply means that roughly 80 percent of the effects of anything you might be doing come from 20 percent of the causes. For example, 80 percent...
Provided by American Express
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White Papers
Improving Retail Supply Chain Planning
Jan 2010
The functional areas of distribution, inbound logistics, and outbound transportation rely on good supply chain volume plans (units or cartons to be processed) as a starting point to build a budget...
Provided by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group
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White Papers
Balancing Effective Cold Chain Strategies Across The Supply Chain
Oct 2010
The "Cold chain" is simply a supply chain with temperature requirements factored in. Cold chain (or, in some contexts, "Cool chain") encompasses the container of the product being shipped, the...
Provided by DDN
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White Papers
Evaluating And Assessing Your Supply Chain
Jun 2009
A supply chain is the set of activities required to provide products and services to customers, starting at the point of product design and ending with the delivery and installation of the product...
Provided by Calyptus Consulting Group
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White Papers
Innovative Logistics Management
Jan 2008
The paper tries to establish a proper tie between two important qualitative subjects in supply chain management, that is, the information quality management and the process quality management. For...
Provided by Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co
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White Papers
The Logistics Of Transporting Wind Turbines
Dec 2009
With the focus on renewable energy worldwide, the rising cost of traditional energy, increased concerns about global warming and government support of alternative energy sources; wind power is...
Provided by Canadian National Railway Company
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White Papers
Logistics And Supply Chain Effectiveness Measure Areas In LNG Companies
Jul 2010
The paper describes the issues of logistics and supply chain measures in companies. It considers different management systems in the area of production, which evolved from isolated production...
Provided by University of Szczecin
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White Papers
Perspectives On Supply Chain And Logistics Management
Jun 2009
Supply chain management has evolved dramatically in recent decades. A system that may have once been self contained within Australia has become an expansive, collaborative, multi-partner network...
Provided by NSW Valuation Services
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White Papers
How Collaborative Logistics Management Increases Supply Chain Efficiency
Jun 2009
Globalization, rapid technological change, shorter product life cycles, changing customer preferences, and hyper competition are just some characteristics of today's business environment. As a...
Provided by University of Borås
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White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Traceability Using RFID Technology
Jun 2010
One of the major issues in the supply chain management is product loss or shrinkage. Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) as an emerging technology has generated enormous amount of interest in...
Provided by INTI University College
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White Papers
Bringing Products To Market: Supply Chains Vs. Value Webs
Nov 2007
Companies scramble to satisfy ever-increasing customer demands for customized products, on-time delivery, and complete order fulfillment. Simultaneously, competition intensifies accompanied by...
Provided by Florida A&M University
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White Papers
The Benefits And Challenges Of New Technologies In Global Supply Chain Management
Jul 2008
Non-business professionals should be able to grasp the concept presented in this paper. The general tendency or spirit of this paper shall be to educate the reader or raise attention as to the...
Provided by University of Indianapolis
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White Papers
The Value Of A Supply Chain Partner
Oct 2009
This paper is for professionals who want to improve business performance through better product design, lower manufacturing costs and lower supply chain investment. With the increasing ease of...
Provided by Trusted Supply Chain Partners
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White Papers
Meeting The Challenges Of Supply Chain Management
Feb 2008
Price and margin erosion, high logistics cost, increasingly shorter life cycles, the acceleration of product introductions and a competitive imperative to maintain product availability "On the...
Provided by MeriTalk
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White Papers
Challenges And Risks Of RFID Adoption In Manufacturing And Logistics
Jul 2009
RFID has also opened the door to a new era in logistics management or Supply Chain Management (SCM) respectively and to optimization of manufacturing processes. The paper is to highlight selected...
Provided by Technical University of Kosice
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White Papers
Collaborative Transportation Management - Creating Value Through Increased Transportation Efficiencies
Feb 2008
The latest concept in the fields of transportation, logistics and supply chain management is that of 'supply chain collaboration'. One of the recent extensions of the supply chain collaboration...
Provided by CPFR
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White Papers
How The Logistics Industry Is Driving An Evolution In Software-As-A-Service
Aug 2009
The software as a service (SaaS) model has been widely embraced thanks to the numerous advantages that on-demand solutions deliver to multiple industries. Logistics-intensive organizations,...
Provided by Descartes Systems Group
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White Papers
Inventory Rationalization And Right Sizing Strategies
Mar 2009
The impact of inventory on cash flow can be devastating, resulting in everything from payable extensions to missed payrolls and loan defaults. Still, despite the lean six sigma purists who preach...
Provided by Kinaxis
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Whitepapers
Orchestrating The Chain Supply Chain Performance Management
Jul 2009
The business value of supply chain visibility is simple: it helps one to understand their company's performance. It creates a common context for decision-making across every department and at...
Provided by IBM
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White Papers
The Demand-Driven Supply Chain
Jan 2009
The report was based on desk research and in-depth interviews with executives from around the world about the challenges and opportunities they face in developing more demand-driven global supply...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
SAS Analytics For Inventory Optimization
Jul 2007
Inventory optimization has been residing in the realm of the business innovator or supply chain visionary. Forward-thinking companies have taken these toolsets and shown huge improvements to...
Provided by SAS Institute
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White Papers
Optimizing Performance Across Your Supply Chain
Dec 2007
Typically a manufacturer or distributor referred to its supply chain it primarily considered business processes directly within its control. Yes customers and vendors mattered, but these factors...
Provided by Information Builders
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White Papers
A Shared Vision Of Supply Chain Integration
Dec 2009
This white paper will be of interest to treasury, trade and procurement staff at companies that have either domestic or cross-border payables and receivables, or both. Articulate emerging...
Provided by Bank of America
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White Papers
Evolution To World-Class Inventory Management
Jan 2010
The evolution from elementary to world-class inventory management is one of progressive organizational maturity and management focus. This white paper provides an overview of the growth process...
Provided by Tompkins Associates
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White Papers
Inventory Management Breakthrough: A New Approach To Measuring And Reducing Inventory Exposure In The Supply Chain
Feb 2009
The first and most fatal flaw is that inventory is a post-performance metric. In other words, companies only recognize that there is a problem once they have the inventory on hand. By then, it is...
Provided by Kinaxis
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White Papers
Inventory Is The Store
Jun 2010
Successful retailing boils down to profitable inventory turn, and the best way to improve profitability and turn is to forget everything they thought that they knew about the mundane...
Provided by ZIH
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White Papers
Polymer Supply Chain Management
Jul 2009
A typical polymer supply chain network includes multiple plants, large number of storage terminals, customers and consignment locations, and complex distribution requirements. Here, the author...
Provided by Aspen Technology
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Whitepapers
Three Steps To Improving Your Bottom Line With Better Inventory Management And Control
Jan 2008
Despite this realization, many manufacturers and distributors face stock shortages and overages, shrinkage, obsolescence, operation disruptions, purchasing problems, and difficulty picking and...
Provided by Intuit
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White Papers
Towards A CRM And SCM Benefits Measurement Model
Jan 2009
Organizations invest heavily in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems, and their related infrastructure, presumably expecting positive benefits to the...
Provided by Queensland University of Technology
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White Papers
Perspectives On Supply Chain Management And Corporate Real Estate
Jun 2010
A multinational company, trading and doing business all over, needs an effective real estate strategy to enable its global supply chain operations. Successful supply chain management solutions...
Provided by Jones Lang LaSalle
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White Papers
Electronic Supply Chain Management: Some Latest Issues And Practices
Nov 2007
Supply chain management (SCM), a management method to optimize internal costs and productivities, has evolved as an application of e-business technologies. SCM is a powerful strategic function...
Provided by King Saud University
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White Papers
Trends In Supply Chain Management And Logistics Systems
Jun 2008
The objective of this paper is to discuss recent trends in approaches to supply chain management and logistics systems with particular reference to logistics centers. The literature on supply...
Provided by ESCAP
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White Papers
Supply Chain Management In Emerging Markets - Implications Of Contextual Constraints For Internationalisation And Strategy
Sep 2008
The purpose of the paper is to explore the nature and implications of supply chain management in emerging markets. The paper is conceptual in nature, while it additionally draws on the author's...
Provided by Turku School of Economics
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White Papers
Process Approach To supply Chain Integration
Sep 2008
Business renovation, the effective utilization of information technology and the role of business process modeling and simulation are all vital in supply chain integration projects. The main idea...
Provided by University of Ljubljana
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White Papers
Supplier Evaluation, Qualification And Selection Model: A Proposal
Mar 2008
The evaluation and selection of suppliers are strategic decisions to be made by the purchasing department with long-term implications. These decisions are highly complex and the most difficult...
Provided by Universidad de Oviedo
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White Papers
Turning Excess Retail Inventory Into Cash: How To Turn Excess Retail Inventory Into Cash
Jan 2010
Slowly, gradually, almost imperceptively over time, the percentage of dead inventory had grown. And as it was growing, the problem was thought to be modest, because the rate of growth appeared to...
Provided by Hurlbut & Associates
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White Papers
The Best Of Inventory: Fourteen Best Practices For Managing Your Merchandise
Jan 2010
Inventory management and forecasting are strategic issues. Companies that recognize this fact can typically provide higher levels of service to their customers and post higher profits. Developing...
Provided by F. Curtis Barry & Company
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White Papers
Key Performance Indicators For Responsible Sourcing: A Beyond Monitoring Trends Report
Oct 2009
Responsible sourcing practices have reached an inflection point. Leading companies are evolving their responsible sourcing programs from an approach based on policing compliance to one that goes...
Provided by BSR
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White Papers
A Solution For Transportation Planning In Supply Chain
Jun 2009
An advanced optimization system for Vehicle Routing and Scheduling Problems (VRSP), which is one of the Supply Chain Planning modules, is introduced. An object oriented system, Computer Aided...
Provided by Sharif University of Technology
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White Papers
Creating Organizational And Personal Advantage Through Job Diversity
Jun 2009
Variety is an advantage. Broad sets of responsibilities and competencies are better than narrow ranges. One can do more with less. Supply management is responsible for everything. Challenge by...
Provided by Calyptus Consulting Group
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White Papers
Five Key Obstacles To Building A Reliable Supplier Network For Small And Mid-Sized Manufacturers, And How Joining A Private Network Can Help Overcome These Obstacles
Sep 2009
For small and mid-sized manufacturers (less than $1 billion in revenues), the task of finding reliable and qualified suppliers can be even more difficult due to issues sited below. The top five...
Provided by PRIME ADVANTAGE
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White Papers
Controlling Transportation Activity And Spend: A Checklist For Transportation Executives
Jun 2009
Transportation remains one of the top five expenditures for manufacturers and distributors. As companies look to be more responsive to marketplace demand and economic fluctuations, gaining control...
Provided by Hitachi Consulting
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White Papers
Creating Advantage From Adversity
Jan 2009
By putting in place rigorous approaches to manage both the supply of goods and services as well as the demand for them, procurement departments can help to enhance significantly their business's...
Provided by Accenture
-
Case Studies
Sony Canada Launches New High Velocity Supply Chain
Jan 2010
When Sony Canada wanted to improve its supply chain management capabilities in the consumer electronics marketing, sales and distribution division, they had a clear vision in mind. The enhancement...
Provided by Deloitte LLP
-
White Papers
External Resource Sourcing: Does Experience Help Firms Select Governance Modes?
Nov 2008
This paper explores whether firms make better governance choices as they gain experience in different modes of governing external resource sourcing, modes that include acquisitions, alliances, and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Inventory In Vertical Relationships With Private Information And Interdependent Values
Feb 2010
This paper studies if borrowers optimally conserve debt capacity to take advantage of investment opportunities due to temporarily low asset prices, when financing is subject to collateral...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Efficiency Through Wholesale Price Renegotiation
Nov 2007
In a decentralized supply chain, double marginalization is an important source of inefficiency. This paper suggests a simple mechanism to reduce it, that uses a wholesale price contract and...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Myopic Inventory Policies Using Individual Customer Arrival Information
Nov 2007
This paper investigates optimality of myopic policies using the single-unit decomposition approach in inventory management. This paper derives, under certain conditions, closed-form replenishment...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Competing For Shelf Space
Nov 2007
This paper studies competition for shelf space in a multi-supplier retail point. This paper considers a retailer that seeks to allocate her shelf space to maximize her profit. Because products...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Hedging Price Volatility Using Fast Transport
Feb 2010
Purchasing goods from distant locations introduces a significant lag between when a product is shipped and when it arrives. These transit lags are trade barriers for firms facing volatile demand,...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Inventory Control With Generalized Expediting
Nov 2007
The authors consider a single-item, periodic review inventory control problem where discrete stochastic demand must be satisfied. When shortages occur, the unmet demand must be filled by some form...
Provided by Washington University Olin
-
White Papers
A Periodic Review Base Stock Inventory System With Sales
Apr 2010
This paper considers a system in which an order is placed every T periods to bring the inventory position up to the base stock S. It accepts demand until the inventory position reaches a sales...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
An Inventory Allocation System With Backorders And Sales Rejection
Nov 2009
This paper considers a variant of the periodic review system with a virtual warehouse that is due to Eppen and Schrage (1981). Depending on the realized pattern of demand during the delivery...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Tight Credit Is Choking Many Small Suppliers: Watch For Weakened Suppliers To Require Financial Support From Customers
Dec 2009
The major defense and aerospace giants are riding out the worst global economic meltdown in generations with their financial health largely unscathed. But the tens of thousands of small companies...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
-
Whitepapers
Do Technology And Information Really Create Supply Chain Gains?
Sep 2009
Supply chain managers crave innovative ways to cut costs and streamline systems. Often, they turn to technology, hoping for big savings and process improvements. But not every tool that promises...
Provided by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
-
White Papers
A Capacitated Commodity Trading Model With Market Power
Jan 2008
The authors consider in this paper the problem of a trader that may purchase a commodity in one market and resell it in another. The trader is capacitated: the trading volume is limited by...
Provided by IESE School Of Business
-
White Papers
Store Inventory Can Affect Demand: Empirical Evidence From Magazine Retailing
Nov 2007
In retailing, inventory analysis and inventory practice have traditionally been based on the assumption that underlying demand does not vary with inventory levels. A growing body of research...
Provided by IMD
-
White Papers
Global Dual Sourcing Strategies
Jun 2009
Many researchers say that their greatest flashes of inspiration come not from extraordinary events but from everyday activities. Intuitive leaps are triggered by observing life unfolding around...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Learning From Zillow And Zoots
Jan 2009
Zillow is also notable for its approach to managing the service process. Providing real estate appraisals is by no means a new business. The novelty of Zillow is that it gathers the necessary data...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
The Newsvendor With Pricing: A Stochastic Elasticity Perspective
Sep 2007
This paper introduces a measure of elasticity of stochastic demand, called the elasticity of lost sales, which offers a unifying perspective on the well-known newsvendor with pricing problem. This...
Provided by INSEAD
-
White Papers
Supply Chain Coordination With Revenue-Sharing Contracts: A Missed Opportunity?
Jul 2007
Coordinating the supply of a product with consumer demand is crucial to the success of any business. Consider, for example, the plight of a video retailer dealing with a capacity problem. Peak...
Provided by Northwestern University (Kellogg)
-
White Papers
Improving Supply Chain Performance: Real-Time Demand Information And Flexible Deliveries
Jul 2009
In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, the authors...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
The Hollow Corporation Revisited: Can Governance Mechanisms Substitute For Technical Expertise In Managing Buyer-Supplier Relationships?
Oct 2009
This paper considers how a firm's system of exchange skills including internal technical expertise and supplier governance mechanisms influence supplier performance, both independently and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Evaluation Of Cycle-Count Policies For Supply Chains With Inventory Inaccuracy And Implications On RFID Investments
Nov 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Coordination Mechanisms In Decentralized Serial Inventory Systems With Batch Ordering
Feb 2009
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial supply chain in which materials are ordered and shipped according to R(nQ) policies. Three information scenarios are considered, depending on the level...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Optimizing Replenishment Intervals For Two-Echelon Distribution Systems With Fixed Order Costs
Mar 2010
The authors consider a periodic-review inventory system with one warehouse and N non-identical retailers. Each location has a positive lead time and orders according to a base-stock policy in...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Single-Stage Bounds For Optimal Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Non-Stationary Demand
Mar 2010
This paper considers a two-stage serial inventory system with a finite planning horizon. The downstream stage, referred to as stage 1, orders from stage 2, which orders from an external supplier...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
Inventory Management Of A Fast-Fashion Retail Network
Aug 2007
Working in collaboration with Spain-based retailer Zara, Authors address the problem of distributing over time a limited amount of inventory across all the stores in a fast-fashion retail network....
Provided by University of California, Los Angeles (Anderson)
-
White Papers
Evaluation Of Supply Chains With Inventory Record Inaccuracy And Implications On IT Investments
Mar 2009
Inventory record inaccuracy deteriorates supply chain performance because it leads to ineffective replenishment decisions. Conducting cycle counts (i.e., periodic inventory auditing) is a common...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
-
White Papers
The Customer Value Proposition Should Drive Supply Chain Design: An Example In Mass Retailing
Oct 2009
A successful company typically starts with a deep understanding of customer needs in a segment and translates these needs into a value proposition. Then it develops its supply chain capability to...
Provided by IMD
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Spread Components In The Hungarian Forint-Euro Market
Jan 2010
The authors apply the spread decomposition model by Huang and Stoll (1997) to a new data set on the Hungarian Forint-Euro market. The results show differences between the small and less liquid...
Provided by City University of London (Cass)
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Quality, Operational Logistics Strategy, And Repurchase Intentions: A Profile Deviation Analysis
Oct 2007
The last decade has seen an increased focus on eBusiness as a method to create customer-driven value in a firm's logistics operations (e.g., Boyer and Olson 2002; Esper et al. 2003; Rodrigues,...
Provided by Ohio State University (Fisher)
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Optimal And Heuristic Echelon (s; T) Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Costs
Dec 2007
This paper considers a periodic-review, serial inventory system with echelon (s; T) policies. This paper assumes that a fixed cost is incurred for each inventory review, and provides a method to...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Serial Supply Chains With Economies Of Scale: Bounds And Approximations
Aug 2007
The authors consider two models of stochastic serial inventory systems with economies of scale for which the forms of optimal policies are known. In the first model, each stage has a fixed-order...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Optimal and Heuristic Echelon (r; nQ; T) Policies In Serial Inventory Systems With Fixed Costs
Aug 2008
This paper studies a periodic-review, serial inventory system in which echelon (r; nQ; T) policies are implemented. Under such a policy, each stage reviews its inventory in every T period and...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Slotting Allowances And Endogenous Shelf Space
Jun 2009
Slotting allowances are upfront payments that manufacturers make to retailers to obtain shelf space. They are widespread in the grocery industry and are of concern to antitrust policy makers...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Seeking Inventory Control Answers Via Research. Incomplete Inventory Information: The Next Challenge In Inventory Control
Jul 2008
Inventory control is one of the most important topics in management science. A systematic analysis of inventory problems began with the development of the classical Economic Order Quantity formula...
Provided by University of Texas (Dallas)
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The Evolution Of Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research
Feb 2008
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader to the field of closed-loop supply chains with a strong business perspective, i.e., the authors focus on profitable value recovery from...
Provided by INSEAD
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Supplier Networks, The OEM Hub And Sourcing Efficiency
Oct 2007
in this paper, the authors explore how sourcing costs within a firm's supply chain can be better managed by managing upstream supply network of the .rm. Building on the three-year empirical...
Provided by INSEAD
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Demand Estimation And Assortment Optimization Under Substitution: Methodology And Application
Dec 2007
Assortment planning at a retailer entails both selecting the set of products to be carried and setting inventory levels for each product. The authors study an assortment planning model in which...
Provided by Duke University (Fuqua-Global)
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Applying The 80/20 Rule To Your Inventory
Apr 2010
The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, simply means that roughly 80 percent of the effects of anything you might be doing come from 20 percent of the causes. For example, 80 percent...
Provided by American Express
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Improving Retail Supply Chain Planning
Jan 2010
The functional areas of distribution, inbound logistics, and outbound transportation rely on good supply chain volume plans (units or cartons to be processed) as a starting point to build a budget...
Provided by Global Supply Chain Leaders Group
