Supply Chain Performance At The Ozr Sector Of India

The supply chain management is considered as a management concept from past two decades as the customers are concerned about timely and safe delivery. The competitiveness has been increasing among the companies to deliver the products as quickly as possible to the customers all around the world. This has made the supply chain management as a vital tool for the management. This is also measured as a competitive parameter for the companies.

A review of Costco Wholesale Corporation key parameters in supply chain operations with a view to suggesting improvements and operational predictions for better economic impact.

Target Corporation is the fourth largest retailer in the United States. The company operates 1,556 stores in 47 states. The company has three main retail divisions: Target Stores, Mervyn’s and Marshall Fields. Target Stores is the number two discount retailer in the country, trailing only Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. they have distinguished itself from its competitors by offering upscale, fashion-conscious products at affordable prices (Funding Universe, n.d.). Targets supply chain actives has been an important part of and one of the most significant reasons for its huge growth and success. The purpose of paper is to analyze Targets supply chain and related actives to understand its effectiveness and gain a better understanding on how their supply chain contributes to the company’s growth and success.

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In recent years, the importance management of supply chain has been a popular topic for a discussion and debates especially among the researchers, academician and practitioners. Still, the literature on supply chain management (SCM) especially in exploring the supply chain performance measurement is very limited. This limitation is due to the affected (in return) by many aspects of the firm’s environment and operations. The lack of investigation on understanding the supply chain measurement will affect the objectives and motivations of several supply chain concept even though there is a lot of literature on number of conceptual frameworks, discussion on characteristics, hierarchy and structure of performance measurement framework.

Even in staple consumer goods, today 's environment is characterized by explosion of variety. How the company manages its supply chain in such settings influence business results and customer satisfaction.

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In an organization, product quality and delivery is largely dependent on the supply chain management which in turn affects the overall profitability. Therefore, supply chain quality control is essential in any organization to ensure a competitive edge in the industry and minimizing the operating costs. Firms are thus competing on the innovation front to stay upfront in meeting customer expectations. One of the industry in which advances in supply chain management have been evolving rapidly is the retail industry. Due to the changing nature of the competitiveness in the retail industry, supply chain managers must come up with expansion plans that align with multiple-channel and geographic growth.

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Food and beverage industry today has become one of the most competitive industries in the world. Recognizing that supply chain management is a core strategy and achieving world class performance in this strategy by developing and managing supply chains that provide flexibility, response time and delivery performance that exceed the competition is a key to survival in the food and beverage industry. The largest production sectors of food industry are brewing, milling, baking, confectionery, animal and vegetable oils, sugar, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, soft drinks, fish and meat processing, ethyl alcohol distillation, sprit blending, wines, bottling of natural spring .

Businesses employ a wide array of standards and measures to gauge how well their business is meeting particular goals. One of these measures of performance is called a Key Performance Indicator or KPI. Depending on the business’s priorities, KPIs can vary significantly from business to business and are a reflection of what that business values most, whether it be handling customers, producing goods, keeping employees motivate or what have you. KPIs are a set of performance metrics used in every aspect of business, from measuring a firm’s financial performance to measuring its environmental impact. Different metrics are measured by different departments, providing for an elaborate overall assessment when each department’s

As the core of the business performance evaluation system, Key Performance Indicators (KPI) is a scientific and effective method to manage and evaluate its performance, based on extracting the key performance indicators within the organization. It is a process of the top-down decomposition on indicators from the organization to individual. The essence is to break down the business strategic goal into a series of operational targets. It is a basic work in business management.

Dennis Minnich1 Frank H. Maier2 International University in Germany Campus 1 76646 Bruchsal, Germany Phone +49 7251 700-341 Fax +49 7251 700-350 e-mail dennis.minnich@i-u.de

issued Medium and Long-term Development Plan of Logistics Industry (20142020) to boost the cold chain logistics industry toward large scale,

behavior). A typical cold chain infrastructure generally consists of pre-cooling facilities, cold storages, refrigerated carriers, packaging, warehouse, traceability, retailer, and consumers, under the aegis of information management systems (Montanari, 2008). A typical cold chain is shown in Figure 1. The integrity of the cold chain must be preserved from the point of production, processing, through each of the transport stages – handling, loading, unloading, and storage – and extends to storage at the consuming household (Salin and Nayga, 2003). An efficient management of the cold chain is the key to prevent unnecessary losses and maintaining the bottom line. Literatures on cold chain management have discussed about various performance variables and factors that influence the cold chain efficiency and integrity. Donk et al. (2008) have explored the specific problems of food manufacturers seeking