improving their strategic position within Taneja’s Saras aircraft supply chain, namely through reducing costs both by considerable changes in organization and management and by establishing their own subcontractors network, onto which they shift a share of the cost increase. This aspect clearly shows that the adoption of an MRP system at Taneja’s Saras aircraft has two implications on the supply chain: It imposes more stress in the supply chain. Subcontractors have to both reduce costs and meet Taneja’s
Sustainability 2014, 6, 6236-6249; doi:10.3390/su6096236 OPEN ACCESS sustainability ISSN 2071-1050 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Article Sustainable Fashion Supply Chain: Lessons from H&M Bin Shen Glorious Sun School of Business and Management, Donghua University, Shanghai 200051, China; E-Mail: binshen@dhu.edu.cn; Tel./Fax: +86-216-237-3621 Received: 15 July 2014; in revised form: 15 August 2014 / Accepted: 19 August 2014 / Published: 11 September 2014 Abstract: Sustainability
World Applied Sciences Journal 12 (7): 1100-1106, 2011 ISSN 1818-4952 © IDOSI Publications, 2011 Information Technology - Its Impact on Global Management 1 Irfan Ahmed, 1Akmal Shahzad Qadri, 2Rana Khurram Shahzad and 3Bashir Ahmed Khilji 1 2 Iqra University, 5, Khayaban-e-Johar, H-9, Islamabad-44000, Pakistan Netsolace Information Technology (Pvt) Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan 3 National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan Abstract: 21st century is the century of information
and make the business environmentally sustainable. The management of the organization achieve these goals through supply chain management has recently focused (Fawcett, et al., 2007). Tesco is one of the World’s leading retailer with operations in United Kingdom, Korea, Poland, Czech Republic and Slovakia, Hungary, Malaysia, Japan, China and the United States. She became increasingly significant on the international stage. The supply chain transformation has underpinned to this retail success
ARTICLE IN PRESS Int. J. Production Economics 114 (2008) 554–570 www.elsevier.com/locate/ijpe Logistics and supply chain management in luxury fashion retail: Empirical investigation of Italian firms Alessandro Brun, Federico Caniato, Maria Caridi, Cecilia CastelliÃ, Giovanni Miragliotta, Stefano Ronchi, Andrea Sianesi, Gianluca Spina Politecnico di Milano, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering, via G. Colombo 40, Milano, Italy Received 31 August 2006; accepted 22 June
A Case Study: Identifying Added Value in Integrated Oil Supply Chain Companies Investors in oil companies are interested in identifying sections of the oil supply chain that provide the best returns. In this case study four segments of the oil supply chain of the Malaysian oil company, Petronas, were modeled and optimized dividing the supply chain in three different ways to determine where value is added and how parts of the company are best aggregated to save the costs. Modelling the Oil Supply
A STUDY ON OBSTACLES AND RESOLUTION OF SERVICE RELATED COMPLICATIONS IN BANKING INDUSTRY WITH ROLE ACTIVITY DIAGRAM BASED MODELLING BY TONMOY TOUFIC CHOUDHURY MASTER OF BUSINESS (FINANCE)-AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY; BACHELOR (ACCOUNTING)-MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY. AND M.PHIL. STUDENT SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY RHEIDOL BUILDING, LLANBADARN ABERYSTWYTH, CEREDIGION, SY23 3AL, UK EMAIL: u4980975@anu.edu.au TEL: +44(0)7448756212 1. OVERVIEW Service industry has
Supply Chain Technology Trends Information and visibility are vital factors of a supply chain because they provide the basis on which supply chain managers make decisions. Information Technology (IT) has many different tools which can be used in a supply chain to provide information, then process it and even execute on them to enhance the performance of the supply chain. Technologies enable us to gather information in a more accurate and timely manner that can drive decision making which is a key
Drivers for automotive manufacturing industry To secure and maintain the long term future of the automotive industry in terms of growing the share of the value chain and by getting ahead in the field of research and development (R&D) on ultra-low emission vehicles. This strategy sets out the drivers for the automotive manufacturing industry. • Legislation: Governments all over the world is enforcing legislations to protect the environment based on the international agreement on climate change (Kyoto
Resource Management Resource management is another interesting and important topic in the business of various organizations engaged in the manufacturing and sale of goods and service. Several organizations in the technology industry have managed to make investments in this industry, and thus it is important to monitor the use of various resources to avoid wastage. Resource management is currently considered as a strategy that is focused on reducing the cost of production and thus reducing the cost