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Supply Chain and Radio Frequency Identification Contributions

area of study sees an application in several contexts, goods in the supply chain may be working capital for a company, and as such...

Supply Chain Management of Nike

important role in the evolution of supply chain management. While still in flux as it continues to evolve, that role is seen as o...

Supply Chain Management at Carrefour

Deming (1986) suggested. An example is that several departments in one organization may share a need for a specific item. Rather...

Mike's Bikes of Phoenix

bikes and all having the same start. This may be seen as a policy to encourage competition, allowing the industry to develop and b...

Supply Chain Management Transformation from Bricks and Mortar to Ebusiness

location of suppliers, production facilities, distribution centers, warehouses and customers. In addition, the supply chain manag...

Internet Portals and Business Value

starting site. This may be the page that a browser is set up to load automatically when it is opened or it may be a webpage that i...

Changes in the Supply Chain

One of the worst reasons to continue with any approach to accomplishing a task in todays business environment is "...because thats...

Ghana and the Importing of Cocoa Beans

brought back by Christopher Columbus. The cocoa plant is a tree "indigenous to the Amazon Basin and tropical areas of South and C...

Los Angeles Clipper Hats from Nike

overseas. It uses 125 such manufacturers in China alone, another 19 in Taiwan, as well as several hundred manufacturers in 53 oth...

Supply Chain Management and Electronic Commerce

through development and manufacturing or conversion, into a market for consumption" (p. 3). The traditional supply chain involves...

Supply Chain Components' Examination

The first stage to get the goods into the organisation takes procurement or purchasing as a section of the inbound logistics that ...

4 Articles on Purchase and Inventory Control Management Reviewed

or a cheaper alterative will do the same job. This is the way of controlling spending, but to management costs and spendin...

Business Practicality of Supply Chain Management

really just a "set of firms that pass materials forward" (5). In other words, a variety of independent firms tend to be involved i...

Developing Countries, Distribution Channels, and Supply Chains

chain being disproportionately distributed to those with the power (Mintzberg et al, 2003). This has been the source of a great de...

Replenishment, Forecasting, Collaborative Planning, and Factory Gate Prices

will be required or even of error rates of any other items that can be measured statistically. To replenish can be defined as "...

RFID, Forecasting, Collaborative Planning, and Factory Gate Prices

gain profit over and above the factory gate price has also seen the increased and as a result as well as supplier selling to the b...

Apple Computer Supply Chain Issues

one or more software packages for purchasers. Apple offers online sales, but most of Apples products are sold through retailers. ...

Supply Chain Management Strategies of Wal Mart

reducing the cost of supply chain management (ICFAI, 2003). RFID technologies "use radio waves to automatically identify people o...

Cost Saving Measure and Developmental Assistance Offered by Value Chains

In ten pages this paper discusses supply chain cost saving and competitive advantage development through value change with PVCs an...

Supply Chain Management Strategy

In ten pages this paper presents a strategic analysis of supply chain management in terms of successes and failures to be aware of...

Overview of Supply Chain Management

In nine pages this paper discusses logistics management as it it now known as supply chain management in terms of the many aspects...

The concept of Global Supply Chain Management

This thoroughly researched paper looks at this topic using various perspectives. A brief investigation is ignited to further explo...

Profitability and Market Influences

In twelve pages company profitability is examined in a consideration of various market influences and references are made to suppl...

Retailer's Views on Supply Chain Management

In eight pages this paper examines Budweiser beer's manufacturer to consumer supply chain from the perspective of a retailer which...

Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Management

In ten pages this paper examines Dell Computer Corp. in a consideration of supply chain management and strategic procurement with ...

Supply Chain for Asian Ceramic Capacitors

In twenty two pages capacitor industry vagaries over the years are considered with the emphasis on late 2000 to mid 2001 and relat...

Physicians and Distribution of Drug Samples

In five pages drug sample distribution to physicians are examined in terms of the supply chain, representatives' involvement, and ...

Various Aspects of Supply Chain Management

In twelve pages this paper examines supply chain management in various aspects including effective components, tools of informatio...

Research on Supply Chain Management

In six pages this paper discusses SCM in terms of the changes initiated by the Internet with 6 variables and questions offered for...

Internet Purchasing and Supply Chain Research

In six pages this paper discusses the present and future changes represented by the Internet in this supply chain research conside...