small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries such as Ghana have been playing very strategic role in the developmental agenda of the nations in the areas of rapid industrialization and other developmental goals as well as job creation among the youth. The interest in the role of SMEs in the development process continues to be in the forefront of policy debates in most countries. Citing Abor and Quartey (2010), Nyameet al (2013) revealed that SMEs represent 92% of Ghanaian businesses
387 From supply chains to value chains: A spotlight on CSR Malika Bhandarkar and Tarcisio Alvarez-Rivero* 1. Introduction Corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 has become a hot topic in boardrooms across the world. Changes in corporate value systems are being driven by pressures from different actors, including governments, consumers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and institutional investors (diagram 1). Multinational corporations (MNCs) have operations spread across the globe, relying
a traditional trading company into a global consumer goods export trading giant and a manager of customers supply chains. It discusses in detail the company’s efforts to constantly evolve its business model in response to the changes in the external environment and the customer needs and preferences. The case study examines Li & Fung’s major strategies viz. Positioning itself as supply chain manager, integration of operational strategy with its organizational strategies, customer-centric organizational
association models are the purposes of intrigue open in a cross breed cloud encouraging. In this way, it isn't too easy to isolate open, private or gathering fogs. Resources in a cross breed cloud are managed and given either in-house or by outer suppliers. For taking care of tremendous data, affiliations can use the mutt cloud appear. 4. Group Cloud: The benefits are for the most part shared between cloud empowering in which different affiliations that have a place
Vickery et al. [43, p. 16] define supply chain flexibility as encompassing those flexibility dimensions that directly impact firms’ customers and that are the shared responsibility of two or more functions along the supply chain, whether internal or external to the company. (40). The 5 types of flexibility that are present in a customer focused supply chain. The dimensions includes: product flexibility, volume flexibility, Launch flexibility, access flexibility, Responsiveness to target markets.
Green Supply Chains * According to Handfield and Nicols 1999, the nature of how supply chains are defined as “supply chain contains all activities that involve the flow and transformation from raw materials”. Following on from this description I will describe the nature, first of all, the supply chain is a network of facilities that distribute and output the performance from their findings of raw materials that which associates themselves with the products that already exist in supply chains
Quality Management Issues of Shipping and Receiving GM588 Managing Quality, Michelle Gardner October 16, 2011 Introduction Professional Flooring Supply (PFS) is a wholesale distributor of flooring installation supplies and sundries. PFS currently has 15 branches located in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Each of these locations serves as a distribution point for resale customers as well as a retail store front for flooring installers. PFS was founded in 1977
Business ethics- is a crucial issue for its strategic management; businesses are expected to have a formal code of ethics or policy that encourages corporate environmental sustainability. To do so, businesses have used different frameworks such as the eco-efficiency, natural step, triple bottom line, ecological footprint and so on, in fact, along with the TBL approach the CSR programs are the most commonly used, it is defined as the “management of stakeholder concern for responsible and irresponsible
Alliances: Motivations and Benefits Challenges in Implementing Global Alliances Implementing Alliances Between SMEs and MNCs Under the Lens: Dancing with Gorillas: How SMEs Can Internationalize Through Relationships with Foreign Multinationals Guidelines for Successful Alliances Comparative Management in Focus: Joint Ventures in the Russian Federation Implementing Strategy Implementing Strategies for SMEs Under the Lens: Breaking Down Barriers for Small Business Exports
(REFEREED RESEARCH) A SUPPLIER SELECTION, EVALUATION AND RE-EVALUATION MODEL FOR TEXTILE RETAIL ORGANIZATIONS TEKSTİL PERAKENDE ORGANİZASYONLARINA YÖNELİK TEDARİKÇİ SEÇİM, DEĞERLENDİRME VE YENİDEN DEĞERLENDİRME MODELİ Aşkıner GÜNGÖR Pamukkale University Industrial Engineering Department e-mail: askiner@pau.edu.tr Semih COŞKUN Pamukkale University Industrial Engineering Department Güngör DURUR Pamukkale University Textile Engineering Department Hacer GÜNER GÖREN Pamukkale