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Supply Chain Information Flow Strategies: An Empirical Taxonomy
Sep 2009
The paper identifies different information flow strategies to enhance integration in strategic alliances and studies these strategies with respect to contextual factors and the impact on...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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White Papers
Management Control Of Supplier Relationships In Manufacturing: A Case Study In The Automotive Industry
Sep 2008
This paper studies management control system design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored. Compared to supplier relations during procurement and...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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White Papers
Creating Successful Collaborative Relationships
Sep 2008
Stevens (1989) was among the first to stress the strategic importance of collaboration in the supply chain. On the other hand, some recent studies point out that supply chain collaboration is no...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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White Papers
Exploring The Bullwhip Effect By Means Of Spreadsheet Simulation
Sep 2007
An important supply chain research problem is the bullwhip effect: demand fluctuations increase as one moves up the supply chain from retailer to manufacturer. It has been recognized that demand...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
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White Papers
Inventories In ToTEM
Aug 2010
ToTEM - the Bank of Canada's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy - is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Inventories, Stockouts, And ToTEM
Jul 2010
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size - less than 1 per cent of output - it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations,...
Provided by Bank of Canada
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White Papers
Simulating Liquidity In Value And Supply Chains
Apr 2009
This paper provides an ontology-based set of Petri-nets for simulating the effect of business process changes on an organization's liquidity, and demonstrates that certain types of business...
Provided by Ghent University
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Podcasts
Wärtsilä: Supply Chain Collaboration - Summary
Jun 2008
The two companies anticipate high performance in all aspects of their newly combined supply chain that will keep materials and production costs low, help improve economies of scale, support an...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Supply Chain Management: Creating A Spirit Of Cooperation Between Suppliers And Customers
Jan 2011
As more and more companies improve their internal processes they are turning to Supply Chain Management (SCM) to get the next breakthroughs in performance. Adding fuel to the movement are advances...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
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White Papers
Supply Chain Dynamics In Asia
Jan 2010
Supply chain management in Asia is a relatively new topic but is a key challenge for all Asia based manufacturers and traders trying to integrate into the "Global Market." The purpose of this...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
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White Papers
Collaboration In China: Paths To Profit
Jun 2009
China is a jumble of networks. The country has emerged as the world's second largest manufacturer through an intricate system of interconnected enterprises, mostly small and medium sized, each...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand
Apr 2008
In decades past, building inventory was a midsize manufacturer's tried and tested way of guarding against uncertainty in the demand environment. The nature of manufacturing demand is changing,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty
May 2010
As companies struggle to cope with the uncertain global economy in 2010, nurturing resilient supply chains is vital for survival. Companies must stay efficient to generate healthy cash flows, and...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
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White Papers
Transportation Issues for Supply Chain Management
Oct 2006
Since the popularization of Just-In-Time (JIT) practices in the 1980's, companies have worked to reduce inventory levels and lower overall production costs. JIT programs have had a positive impact...
Provided by AllBusiness.com
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Case Studies
Automotive After-Market Industry Client Streamlines Its Supply Chain Processes
Jan 2011
CSC partnered with a large automotive after-market industry client to help streamline their supply chain processes. The goal was to improve a network that is characterized by excessive inventory,...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
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White Papers
Public Private Partnership In Transportation: The Case Of The Washington State
Jul 2007
While the world has changed dramatically in the last five decades or so, transportation has not been able to keep pace with the overall development. However, in order to ensure prosperity of a...
Provided by Vikalpa
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Case Studies
CSC Drives Supply Chain Optimization For Petroleum Client
Jan 2011
The chemical division of an integrated petroleum company engaged CSC to evaluate opportunities for further improvement in their existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) infrastructure. Working...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
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Case Studies
Soft Drink Manufacturer Achieves Supply Chain Benefits
Jan 2011
A leading producer of soft drink beverages engaged CSC to perform a High Impact Supply Chain Assessment (HISCA) to analyze three key business dimensions: supply chain management, SAP capability...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
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Case Studies
Automotive After-Market Client Streamlines Supply Chain Process
Jan 2011
CSC partnered with a large automotive after-market industry client to help streamline their supply chain processes. The goal was to improve a network that is characterized by excessive inventory,...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
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White Papers
Dynamic Joint Investments In Supply Chains Under Information Asymmetry
Dec 2010
Supply chain management involves the selection, coordination and motivation of independently operated suppliers. However the central planner's perspective in operations management translates...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Lower Bounds Rule!
Nov 2010
The authors propose two axioms that introduce lower bounds into resource monotonicity requirements for rules for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims suppose the amount to divide...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Fixed-charge Transportation On A Path: Optimization, LP Formulations And Separation
Oct 2010
The fixed-charge transportation problem is an interesting problem in its own right. This paper further motivates its study by showing that it is both a special case and a strong relaxation of the...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Measuring The Variability In Supply Chains With The Peakedness
Oct 2010
This paper introduces a novel way to measure the variability of order flows in supply chains, the peakedness. The peakedness can be used to measure the variability assuming the order flow is a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Design Of A Network Of Reusable Logistic Containers
Feb 2010
In this paper, the authors consider the management of the return flows of empty logistic containers that accumulate at the customer's sites. These containers must be brought back to the factories...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Webcasts
The Future Is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics And Transportation Tomorrow
Nov 2010
If the prospect of aging and infirmity seems remote, you could use some time with AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System), a wearable apparatus that approximates "What it feels like to be a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Open Payment, A New Approach To Public Transportation Fare Collection
Oct 2010
Soon, a ticket to ride won't require paper coupons, tokens, human vendors, or even Boston's CharlieCard. Urban transit is abandoning a century old payment system for sophisticated digital payment...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Infinite Density At The Median And The Typical Shape Of Stock Return Distributions
Jun 2009
Statistics are developed to test for the presence of an asymptotic discontinuity (or infinite density or peakedness) in a probability density at the median. The approach makes use of work by...
Provided by Korea University
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Webcasts
Transportation, The Built Environment And Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Developing Cities
Apr 2010
It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint increases. Global population is projected to increase by nearly 2 billion...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Transportation In Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
Mar 2010
In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing mobility. Mobility was facilely...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Webcasts
Carbon And Energy Efficient Supply Chains
Oct 2009
Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common banana you buy, say organic or not, is probably...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Lot-sizing With Stock Upper Bounds And Fixed Charges
Apr 2009
Here the authors study the discrete lot-sizing problem with an initial stock variable and an associated variable upper bound constraint. This problem is of interest in its own right, and is also a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Transportation, Freight Rates, And Economic Geography
Jul 2008
The authors investigate the role of the transport sector in structuring the location of economic activity within two-region economic geography models of the footloose capital and core-periphery...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Who Captures Value In Global Supply Chains?
Feb 2011
Available statistics tells little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, the authors perform grass roots...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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White Papers
Exact Methods For The Single-item Multi-plant Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem Coupled With Transportation
Jul 2007
In this paper the authors study the integration of production, transportation and storage decisions in a multi plant-distribution center supply chain structure. Multiple plants produce one type of...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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White Papers
Sustainable Supply Chain Management In City Logistics Solutions: An Experience~s Comeback From Cityporto Padua (Italy)
Dec 2009
The sustainable logistics and transportation studies constitute a primordial research axis in the enterprises' governance. In the last years, many reflections and developments in logistics...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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White Papers
Cooperation Support In A Dyadic Supply Chain
Feb 2008
To improve the supply chains performance, taking into account the customer demand in the tactical planning process is essential. It is more and more difficult for the customers to insure a certain...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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White Papers
How to Avoid Supply Chain Disruptions
Dec 2005
Being prepared for troubled supplier situations is the best defense to protect the supply chain. Any supplier to a company (the "Customer") that provides critical products or services and faces...
Provided by Penton Media
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White Papers
Supply Chain Management In The Petroleum Industry
Nov 2006
Supply chain management in the petroleum industry contains various challenges, specifically in the logistics area, that are not present in most other industries. These logistical challenges are a...
Provided by University of Houston
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White Papers
Inventories, Markups, And Real Rigidities In Menu Cost Models
Jan 2009
Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. The authors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Market Dynamics In Supply Chains: The Impact Of Globalization And Consolidation On Food Companies~ Mark-Ups
Jan 2011
This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers' market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
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White Papers
Is There still Fuel In The low-Cost Country Sourcing Engine?: Five Golden Rules For Dealing With Rising Oil Prices
Sep 2008
The cost of petroleum-based fuels is surging. And not only is there no letup in sight, there is no end to the consequences for companies that import goods from long distances. In many respects,...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
What Is Supply Chain Management
Jan 2010
An organization that manufactures or develops a product or a service has to transport this final product to the customer. The production process, the distribution process, and the management of...
Provided by Buzzle.com
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White Papers
Supply Chain Planning Mastery: Achieving High Performance In Planning Through Greater Visibility And Collaboration
Sep 2009
Companies with best supply chains have superior planning organizations that enable the enterprise to shape demand rather than respond to it, dynamically react to demand and supply situations and...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Three Ways To Reduce Claims (And Boost Profits)
Jan 2010
With a business to run, the last thing one needs to worry about is packages that don't make it to anxious customers. Here's the three-step Compass Online guide to minimizing package problems and,...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
At The Top Of The Secure Food Chain
Jul 2009
Over the past decade, the safety of the Food and Beverage Industry's supply chain has fallen under increasing scrutiny due to the high number of food-borne deaths, illnesses and recalls. Each year...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Top 10 Shipping Tips For 2010
Jan 2010
By consulting an experienced third-party logistics provider (3PL), the business can gain valuable expert guidance and access to world-class tools and services that might otherwise be beyond the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Change Drivers, Strategic Responses And The Role Of IT In Freight And Logistics Companies
Jan 2010
Companies in the freight and logistics sector work on leading edge globalization 24/7. From express shipping services using airlines and ocean shipping lines, these companies contend with the...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Achieving High Performance In The Freight Forwarding & Logistics Industry
Apr 2008
Research found that the Freight Forwarding & Logistics high-performance businesses have distinguished themselves with an approach to mergers and acquisitions that carefully aligns targeted...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Stop Online Credit Card Fraud In Its Tracks
Jan 2010
Online businesses often deal with considerable risks when it comes to credit card fraud. Without the presence of the actual credit card and signed sales receipt during a transaction, the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Transportation Companies - Using Sensor Telemetry To Map Their Route
Jan 2010
Surprising though it may seem, for many organizations - from chemicals companies to manufacturers - transportation is the second largest cost of doing business. For transportation companies trying...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Balancing Demand, Supply And Cost With The Right Mix Of Offshoring, Nearshoring And Onshoring
Sep 2008
The essentials of a sound supply chain management strategy revolve around the age-old industry adage, "Provide customers with what they want, when they want it and at the lowest possible cost." In...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Past The Tipping Point: Record Oil Prices Require New Supply Chain Strategies To Enable Future High Performance
Jun 2008
Strategies such as just-in-time lean manufacturing and even low-cost country sourcing must be re-valuated in light of fuel prices. In every respect, author has entered a new era where different...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
High Performance Through Procurement: Accenture Research And Insights Into Procurement Performance Mastery
Jul 2007
This paper is part of an ongoing series of cross industry studies in supply chain management. Its mission is to tally, chart and analyze the responses of executives from companies around the world...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
High Performance Through Procurement: The Role Of Technology
Jul 2008
Procurement mastery - significantly outpacing competitors in areas such as sourcing, category management and supplier relationship management - can be immensely profitable. A recent Accenture...
Provided by Accenture
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White Papers
Predicting Archival Life of Removable Hard Disk Drives
Apr 2008
A collaboration between the developer of a Removable Hard Disk Drive (RHDD) storage technology product and academics presents an accelerated life test of non-spinning powered down hard disks. The...
Provided by Stanford University
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White Papers
Which Return Service Is Right For You?
Jan 2009
Pre-printed, electronic or online return labels? With UPS, you decide what helps you and your customers. Whatever the nature of your business, you have no doubt given much thought to your shipping...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
New International Returns Services And Electronic Commercial Invoices Streamline Global Shipping
Jan 2009
It's never been easier to sell globally, from Shanghai to Sheboygan. Now with the most comprehensive international returns service in the industry, UPS makes it easier for your company to sell...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Brown Deeply Rooted In Going Green: Some Of The Many Ways UPS Conserves
Jan 2009
UPS has been carving out ways to improve efficiencies for more than 100 years. It wasn't always called being "Green," but the idea of being a more environmentally responsible and efficient company...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Your Everyday UPS Tools Can Manage Your Freight Shipments, Too
Jan 2009
The same technology you use for shipping and tracking your UPS packages can look after your freight shipments just as easily - without add-ons or retraining. You can create and manage UPS Freight...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Roses Are ... Brown? Flower Imports Showcase International Logistics
Jan 2009
UPS is the largest cargo carrier into Miami International Airport. For big holidays, UPS adds flights. For example, during the weeks leading up to Valentine's Day, UPS adds 13 flights of its...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
A Sports Manufacturer Hits A Supply Chain Management Home Run
Jan 2009
With Flex Global View from UPS, Mizuno USA can track its freight shipments from Asia to North America - and any stop in between. Mizuno was established in Osaka, Japan, in 1906, by Rihachi Mizuno....
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Shipping Science
Jan 2009
Founded in 1985, Medifacts International is a third-party lab on the cutting edge of medicine and the cusp of tomorrow's cures. The global operation specializes in cardiovascular research and core...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Red Wing Hits Its Stride With UPS
Jan 2009
Top boot manufacturer finds international turnkey solution in UPS Trade Direct. For a century, Red Wing Shoe Co. Inc., based in the Mississippi River town of Red Wing, Minn., has been turning out...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Containing Costs While Connecting With Customers
Jan 2009
Iron Pony, a multichannel retailer of motorcycle parts, apparel and accessories, has revived the hearts of cycling enthusiasts for 31 years. When Iron Pony restructured its superstore and catalog...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Start The Presses! Custom Books Printed - And Then Delivered By UPS Within A Day
Jan 2009
Looking for a new book? Digital book manufacturer Lightning Source prints books for more than 4,500 publishers - and UPS delivers to customers in the time guaranteed. Lightning Source, a LaVergne,...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
How A Maker Of Caribbean Roasting Boxes Got Cooking
Jan 2009
UPS helps delivers a tried-and-true Caribbean roaster to customers of La Caja China. A key to the company's success has been its relationship with UPS. Since day one, La Caja China has used UPS...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Inbound Visibility: How UPS Helps One Company Plan Ahead
Jan 2009
Biomedical researchers around the world rely on a Florida company for their high-tech gear. WPI, based in Sarasota, Fla., sends 2,000 shipments a month to scientific researchers at universities...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Pool Lifts Make A Big Splash
Jan 2009
The ancient Egyptians bathed with essential oils for health, Hippocrates prescribed bathing in spring water for wellness, and the Romans built huge communal baths wherever they went. But there...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Art Of Glass
Jan 2009
Anyone who creates fine art for a living would be choosy about who transports their work to their customers. But when the art in question is painstakingly created from several thousand pieces of...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Anatomy Of A New Business
Jan 2009
Yahoo! and UPS are helping Freedom-of-Teach export around 40 percent of its products, which are popular in such far-flung countries as Peru, Greenland and Sri Lanka. Some go to movie and...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Quick Printing And An Even Faster Delivery
Jan 2009
With lively text and easily digestible charts and graphs, books from Paramount Market Publishing, Inc., (PMP) make for a fun, enlightening read. But what makes PMP really different is how quickly...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Getting A Slice Of The Pie
Jan 2009
Home Run Inn is still family-owned and operated, with seven restaurants, two manufacturing plants and one distribution facility that sends frozen pizzas out to grocery stores in more than 20...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Art You Can Sink Your Teeth Into
Jan 2009
Finnish-born Anna, 25, was introduced to the craft by a Belgian chocolate maker while she was in college studying psychology. Shortly after, she was training with master chocolatiers in France's...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Crafting Quicker Deliveries
Jan 2009
Baobab Inc. helps overseas artists reach U.S. buyers. Lanky Levy is very much a patron of the arts. Her support is logistical rather than financial, and the artists she supports don't sing at...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
An Expanding Business
Jan 2009
UPS Freight helps Firefly Balloons rise above the competition. The small North Carolina town of Statesville is home to FireFly Balloons, Inc., the world's largest - and the nation's oldest -...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Walk Tall: A Small-Town Medical Manufacturer Achieves Global Reach
Jan 2009
MD Orthopaedics sends its corrective footwear products to parents of children with clubfoot around the world. MD Orthopaedics of Wayland, Iowa, ships unique, customized foot braces for children....
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Reducing Guesswork: A Clothing Retailer Gets Shipping Buttoned Up
Jan 2009
Stores save time, improve service with online labeling and tracking. GUESS, a Los Angeles-based retailer, sends its hip, upscale jeans, shirts and skirts to stores and customers across the...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Law Firm Uses Technology To Manage Shipping And Allocate Costs
Jan 2009
Alston & Bird embraces technology - and that includes shipping solutions. Alston & Bird is an Atlanta-based corporate law firm that has represented some of the country's most important businesses...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Bringing Up All About Baby: A Specialty Retailer Grows Up With UPS
Jan 2009
Allowing its vendors to drop-ship orders using a single account number reduces paperwork and streamlines the shipping process for All About Baby. All About Baby, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif.,...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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Case Studies
Success In The Works: An Industrial Manufacturer Gears Up For Global Expansion
Jan 2009
Rapidly expanding industrial manufacturer Hopewell Designs is serving customers in increasingly far-flung destinations - with field support from UPS. Hopewell Designs of Alpharetta, Ga. designs...
Provided by United Parcel Service of America
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White Papers
Management Control Of Supplier Relationships In Manufacturing: A Case Study In The Automotive Industry
Sep 2008
This paper studies management control system design of supplier relationships in manufacturing, a supply chain phase currently under-explored. Compared to supplier relations during procurement and...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
-
White Papers
Creating Successful Collaborative Relationships
Sep 2008
Stevens (1989) was among the first to stress the strategic importance of collaboration in the supply chain. On the other hand, some recent studies point out that supply chain collaboration is no...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
-
White Papers
Exploring The Bullwhip Effect By Means Of Spreadsheet Simulation
Sep 2007
An important supply chain research problem is the bullwhip effect: demand fluctuations increase as one moves up the supply chain from retailer to manufacturer. It has been recognized that demand...
Provided by Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
-
White Papers
Inventories In ToTEM
Aug 2010
ToTEM - the Bank of Canada's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy - is extended to include inventories. In the model, firms accumulate inventories of finished...
Provided by Bank of Canada
-
White Papers
Inventories, Stockouts, And ToTEM
Jul 2010
Inventory investment is an important component of the Canadian business cycle. Despite its small average size - less than 1 per cent of output - it exhibits volatile procyclical fluctuations,...
Provided by Bank of Canada
-
White Papers
Simulating Liquidity In Value And Supply Chains
Apr 2009
This paper provides an ontology-based set of Petri-nets for simulating the effect of business process changes on an organization's liquidity, and demonstrates that certain types of business...
Provided by Ghent University
-
Podcasts
Wärtsilä: Supply Chain Collaboration - Summary
Jun 2008
The two companies anticipate high performance in all aspects of their newly combined supply chain that will keep materials and production costs low, help improve economies of scale, support an...
Provided by Accenture
-
White Papers
Supply Chain Management: Creating A Spirit Of Cooperation Between Suppliers And Customers
Jan 2011
As more and more companies improve their internal processes they are turning to Supply Chain Management (SCM) to get the next breakthroughs in performance. Adding fuel to the movement are advances...
Provided by Rath & Strong Management Consultants
-
White Papers
Supply Chain Dynamics In Asia
Jan 2010
Supply chain management in Asia is a relatively new topic but is a key challenge for all Asia based manufacturers and traders trying to integrate into the "Global Market." The purpose of this...
Provided by Asian Development Bank Institute
-
White Papers
Collaboration In China: Paths To Profit
Jun 2009
China is a jumble of networks. The country has emerged as the world's second largest manufacturer through an intricate system of interconnected enterprises, mostly small and medium sized, each...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
-
White Papers
Reading The Signals: Process Manufacturers And Customer Demand
Apr 2008
In decades past, building inventory was a midsize manufacturer's tried and tested way of guarding against uncertainty in the demand environment. The nature of manufacturing demand is changing,...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
-
White Papers
Resilient Supply Chains In A Time Of Uncertainty
May 2010
As companies struggle to cope with the uncertain global economy in 2010, nurturing resilient supply chains is vital for survival. Companies must stay efficient to generate healthy cash flows, and...
Provided by Economist Intelligence Unit
-
Case Studies
Hewlett-Packard's Design for Supply Chain Program
Dec 2005
For more than 10 years, Hewlett-Packard has evaluated supply chain impacts on design decisions. Now, Design for Supply Chain (DfSC) is a systematic, repeatable process for product development...
Provided by SupplyChainBrain.com
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White Papers
Transportation Issues for Supply Chain Management
Oct 2006
Since the popularization of Just-In-Time (JIT) practices in the 1980's, companies have worked to reduce inventory levels and lower overall production costs. JIT programs have had a positive impact...
Provided by AllBusiness.com
-
Case Studies
Automotive After-Market Industry Client Streamlines Its Supply Chain Processes
Jan 2011
CSC partnered with a large automotive after-market industry client to help streamline their supply chain processes. The goal was to improve a network that is characterized by excessive inventory,...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
-
White Papers
Public Private Partnership In Transportation: The Case Of The Washington State
Jul 2007
While the world has changed dramatically in the last five decades or so, transportation has not been able to keep pace with the overall development. However, in order to ensure prosperity of a...
Provided by Vikalpa
-
Case Studies
CSC Drives Supply Chain Optimization For Petroleum Client
Jan 2011
The chemical division of an integrated petroleum company engaged CSC to evaluate opportunities for further improvement in their existing ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) infrastructure. Working...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
-
Case Studies
Soft Drink Manufacturer Achieves Supply Chain Benefits
Jan 2011
A leading producer of soft drink beverages engaged CSC to perform a High Impact Supply Chain Assessment (HISCA) to analyze three key business dimensions: supply chain management, SAP capability...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
-
Case Studies
Automotive After-Market Client Streamlines Supply Chain Process
Jan 2011
CSC partnered with a large automotive after-market industry client to help streamline their supply chain processes. The goal was to improve a network that is characterized by excessive inventory,...
Provided by Computer Sciences Corporation
-
White Papers
Dynamic Joint Investments In Supply Chains Under Information Asymmetry
Dec 2010
Supply chain management involves the selection, coordination and motivation of independently operated suppliers. However the central planner's perspective in operations management translates...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Lower Bounds Rule!
Nov 2010
The authors propose two axioms that introduce lower bounds into resource monotonicity requirements for rules for the problem of adjudicating conflicting claims suppose the amount to divide...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Fixed-charge Transportation On A Path: Optimization, LP Formulations And Separation
Oct 2010
The fixed-charge transportation problem is an interesting problem in its own right. This paper further motivates its study by showing that it is both a special case and a strong relaxation of the...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Measuring The Variability In Supply Chains With The Peakedness
Oct 2010
This paper introduces a novel way to measure the variability of order flows in supply chains, the peakedness. The peakedness can be used to measure the variability assuming the order flow is a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
White Papers
Design Of A Network Of Reusable Logistic Containers
Feb 2010
In this paper, the authors consider the management of the return flows of empty logistic containers that accumulate at the customer's sites. These containers must be brought back to the factories...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
-
Webcasts
The Future Is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics And Transportation Tomorrow
Nov 2010
If the prospect of aging and infirmity seems remote, you could use some time with AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System), a wearable apparatus that approximates "What it feels like to be a...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
Webcasts
Open Payment, A New Approach To Public Transportation Fare Collection
Oct 2010
Soon, a ticket to ride won't require paper coupons, tokens, human vendors, or even Boston's CharlieCard. Urban transit is abandoning a century old payment system for sophisticated digital payment...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Infinite Density At The Median And The Typical Shape Of Stock Return Distributions
Jun 2009
Statistics are developed to test for the presence of an asymptotic discontinuity (or infinite density or peakedness) in a probability density at the median. The approach makes use of work by...
Provided by Korea University
-
Webcasts
Transportation, The Built Environment And Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Developing Cities
Apr 2010
It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint increases. Global population is projected to increase by nearly 2 billion...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Transportation In Contemporary Society: A Complex Systems Approach
Mar 2010
In the nineteen fifties and sixties, students of transportation focused on building infrastructure and applied lessons from the physical sciences to designing mobility. Mobility was facilely...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Carbon And Energy Efficient Supply Chains
Oct 2009
Consumers will soon be able to quantify the carbon footprint of products they consume, and that could begin to change consumer behavior. The common banana you buy, say organic or not, is probably...
Provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Lot-sizing With Stock Upper Bounds And Fixed Charges
Apr 2009
Here the authors study the discrete lot-sizing problem with an initial stock variable and an associated variable upper bound constraint. This problem is of interest in its own right, and is also a...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Transportation, Freight Rates, And Economic Geography
Jul 2008
The authors investigate the role of the transport sector in structuring the location of economic activity within two-region economic geography models of the footloose capital and core-periphery...
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Who Captures Value In Global Supply Chains?
Feb 2011
Available statistics tells little about the economic consequences of increasing global dispersion of production processes. In order to shed light on the issue, the authors perform grass roots...
Provided by ELINKEINOELÄMÄN TUTKIMUSLAITOS
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Exact Methods For The Single-item Multi-plant Capacitated Lot Sizing Problem Coupled With Transportation
Jul 2007
In this paper the authors study the integration of production, transportation and storage decisions in a multi plant-distribution center supply chain structure. Multiple plants produce one type of...
Provided by Universite Catholique de Louvain
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Sustainable Supply Chain Management In City Logistics Solutions: An Experience~s Comeback From Cityporto Padua (Italy)
Dec 2009
The sustainable logistics and transportation studies constitute a primordial research axis in the enterprises' governance. In the last years, many reflections and developments in logistics...
Provided by University of Nottingham
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Cooperation Support In A Dyadic Supply Chain
Feb 2008
To improve the supply chains performance, taking into account the customer demand in the tactical planning process is essential. It is more and more difficult for the customers to insure a certain...
Provided by Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe
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How to Avoid Supply Chain Disruptions
Dec 2005
Being prepared for troubled supplier situations is the best defense to protect the supply chain. Any supplier to a company (the "Customer") that provides critical products or services and faces...
Provided by Penton Media
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Supply Chain Management In The Petroleum Industry
Nov 2006
Supply chain management in the petroleum industry contains various challenges, specifically in the logistics area, that are not present in most other industries. These logistical challenges are a...
Provided by University of Houston
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Inventories, Markups, And Real Rigidities In Menu Cost Models
Jan 2009
Real rigidities that limit the responsiveness of real marginal cost to output are a key ingredient of sticky price models necessary to account for the dynamics of output and inflation. The authors...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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Market Dynamics In Supply Chains: The Impact Of Globalization And Consolidation On Food Companies~ Mark-Ups
Jan 2011
This paper examines whether ownership and increased competitive pressure affect food retailers' market power, analysing whether all actors involved in the food supply chain deviate from the...
Provided by Centre for European Policy Studies
