Understanding Supply Chain Orientation in Indian Pharmaceutical Firms TOPIC AREA: OPERATIONS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Authors: Dr. J Shanmugan, Dr. Sajal Kabiraj Email: jshanmugan@skylineuniversity.com, skabiraj@skylineuniversity.com Address: Faculty Block 2, Skyline University College, P.O Box 1797, University City of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE Tel: 06 5441155 Ext 234, 219 A Case Study Approach for Understanding Supply Chain Orientation in Indian Pharmaceutical Firms ABSTRACT Supply Chain
organizations’ have done this is by understanding the importance of operations and supply chain management. The author will explain how operations and supply chain management evolved to what it is today, how this is important to the company’s strategy, and define the dimensions of the quality. Evolution Everything adapts and changes as it matures. This is how things advance to the next stage of evolution. Operations and supply chain management is not exception to this rule, it too advanced. In the early
Publication Date: 12 November 2010 ID Number: G00208603 Case Study for Supply Chain Leaders: Dell 's Transformative Journey Through Supply Chain Segmentation Matthew Davis Faced with ever-changing customer needs, product commoditization, unique global requirements and new, low-cost competitors, Dell embarked on a three-year journey to segment its supply chain response capabilities. The company designed its supply chains based on a mix of cost optimization, delivery speed and product choices
Logistics and Marketing – Friends or Enemies? The Recent acrimonious debate has focused on the argument of whether logistics and marketing is friend. Marketing is defined as the management processes of individuals and groups create the demand and meet the demand. (Kotler et al. 2013). Converse (1954) made a speech at twenty-sixth Boston Conference on distribution. He claims that the process of selling goods and the process of satisfying consumer’s needs is closely related to logistics. Christopher
competitive advantage. It is called supply chain management and it includes all integrated activates which introduce to market place and maintain customer satisfaction. This supply chain management drives from multi- disciplinary departments such as procuring, transportation, manufacturing products, customer services, distribution of product into integrated program. Successful management will be in coordination and integrated in all these activate in an unbroken chain process. It supports and interconnected
major influences on supply chain design and planning (Novak & Eppinger, 2001; Salvador, 2002; Fixson, 2005; Caridi et al., 2010; Hashemi & Butcher, 2011). Yet to date, this is not well covered in the scholarly literature (Khan & Creazza, 2009; Caridi et al., 2009; Pero et al., 2010). There are different approaches to investigate this association, but a general concurrence within this body of work suggests that closer cooperation between product design management and supply chain management functions
GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Fadi Akle 15136084 GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Supply chain management is one of the important competitive approaches for the organization today. The issue of having green supply chain management is vital for successful implementation of the industrial ecosystem and industrial ecology. This therefore, gives organizations number of reason for implantation of green supply chain policies. The reasons may range from active and proactive strategies of the business
framework of sustainable supply chain management: moving toward new theory Craig R. Carter and Dale S. Rogers University of Nevada, College of Business Administration, Reno, Nevada, USA Abstract Purpose – The authors perform a large-scale literature review and use conceptual theory building to introduce the concept of sustainability to the field of supply chain management and demonstrate the relationships among environmental, social, and economic performance within a supply chain management context
ECCO A/S-GLOBAL VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS 1. Describe the competitive environment of ECCO and determine how well ECCO is positioned (vis-à-vis the competitors) to take advantage of changes in the industry. http://wulibraries.typepad.com/files/footwear.pdf 2. Analyze ECCO’s global value chain. How well does this configuration match the drivers in the industry? Analyze ECCO’s global value chain. High demand for quality and reduced lead times led the company to a self-sufficiency approach on
2.4.1 Brief introduction of value chain The second theory involved in this chapter is Porter’s value chain. In 1985, the concept of value chain was introduced by Michael Porter in his popular book "Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance". In this concept, the business activities are separated into primary activities and support activities. According to Peppard and Rylander (2006), the concept of a value chain has been a dominant position in the strategic analysis of industries