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years, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 underlined the fact that back-ups and recovery processes were necessary to prot...

chain becomes so important. What was once considered mainly logistics (i.e., getting the raw materials in to make a product, then ...

In this paper, the writer is being asked to take on the role of an employee in a hospital that is interested in tapping into Chine...

The risks associated with procurement start with increases to the price of the inputs that are purchased which have not been expec...

employee in a company has the responsibility to improve production. Under kaizen, a company takes ideas from its employees, along ...

change can be seen in the fact that in the mid-1960s, the "Big 3" in Detroit accounted for 80 percent of all Danas sales but by 20...

All of that, however, is starting to change. Since the middle of the 20th century, the era of catalogue ordering has come about, i...

experts intuition, based on industry and customer preferences and previous performance data (About.com, 2008). Time series forecas...

Crocs senior management also can be listed as a core competence. The companys President understands the nature of customer accept...

Its many benefits deliver a powerful cumulative impact---speeding operations and improving customer satisfaction and loyalty" ("Ci...

user. Firms may compete using logistics in order to gain a competitive advantage. Effective supply chain management can help to cr...

organizations different opportunities. The organization examines its portfolio of sources, distribution points, and locations of a...

that companies that had implemented such a process "had an order-cycle and an inventory days of supply that were 50 percent lower ...

and other flavors, and water (Coca-Cola, 2008). Suppliers are those companies that provide the ingredients for the concentrate syr...

advantage of any constraints in place. The forth involves the alignment of all the processes with the decision was made at stage t...

(Vorst, Dijk and Beulens, 2001, p. 74). Innovative products usually have larger profit margins, but the demand for such goods is ...

2005). Especially important when it comes to embracing and implementing a TQM (or Six-Sigma Quality System or ISO 9000 or any othe...

to point B (Griffin, 2007). Things have changed during the past decade at the AMC, however - there was a time during...

is why Toyota adopted just-in-time (JIT) supply chain management many, many years ago. JIT is about having the right raw materials...

outcomes of standards are "to streamline interaction throughout a supply chain, to speed up transactions, and to reduce inventory ...

This 5-page paper examines how well Porter's cluster theory works with supply chain management. Bibliography lists 3 sources....

he became frustrated a new shade of lipstick that had just hit the market would sell out of stores in an hour but the store would ...

that was trained to provide efficient and hygienic services to customers (Pande, 2003). It was also determined that the companys c...

stage of development of the learner. Both young adulthood and middle-aged adulthood (Hsu, n.d.) age groups are likely to be repres...

chain, they are firm infrastructure, human resource management, technological development and procurement (Porter, 1985). At all l...

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

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

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

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

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