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Supply
Chain Management: A Great Borrowing Discipline
-- Nityesh Bhatt, Ashu Sharma and R Sujatha
Supply
Chain Management (SCM) includes many theories from other
areas of management. This paper focuses on how SCM is a
blend of different theories of other disciplines. A number
of items are identified, which were first developed in other
disciplines and then included in Logistics. Despite borrowing
theories from other disciplines, it has yet to come to a
mature stage. This paper illustrates the benefits to SCM
from borrowing, and applying these to the existing disciplines.
The core theme of the paper is that the discipline of SCM
can further adopt theories from other disciplines to define
SCM more explicitly.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
An
Empirical Study of Vendor Selection Decisions and Buyer-Supplier
Relationships in Indian Firms
-- Manoj Kumar, Prem Vrat and Ravi Shankar
This
paper aims at to create a general framework for vendor-related
issues in the context of supply chains, and the status of
vendor selection decisions in particular, how to relate
uncertainty factors in vendor selection decisions, and the
role of suppliers in buyer-supplier relationships in the
Indian manufacturing firms. Statistical analysis, such as
factor analysis is used to identify those `successful factors'
that contribute positively to vendor selection decisions
and buyer-supplier relationships. Four important sectorsautomotive;
engineering; electrical and electronics; and FMCGare targeted
for questionnaire administration. Cronbach's coefficient
(alpha, a) is calculated to test the reliability and internal
consistency of the responses. The survey results indicate
the percentage of suppliers in Indian manufacturing firms,
percentage of the purpose of involvement of suppliers in
the Indian manufacturing firms, and ranking of the vendor
selection criteria. Two sets of hypotheses have been formulated,
which are concerned with the vendor selection decisions
and buyer-supplier relationships issues in the supply chains
of the Indian manufacturing firms. The multiple linear regression
analysis is carried out to test these hypotheses. The research
indicates that the various uncertainty issues related to
the criteria of vendor selection, have a significant impact
on decisions. It also indicates that the supplier has a
greater role in the buyer-supplier relationships.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
E-Technologies
for Effective Supply Chain Process Management
--
P
Sashikala and Tapas Mahapatra
E-Technologies
in business mean "making business functions e-enabled".
While enterprise management functions are focused with respect
to a single organization, the management of supply chain
extends this view to cover the supply chain partners as
well. It is evident that seamless information flows amongst
all levels, both horizontally as well as vertically, are
crucial for a successful supply chain management. The challenge
in a supply chain collaboration is to implement the cultural
and organizational changes that allow supply chain partners
to achieve responsiveness and efficiencies. The efficient
implementation of business processes following a process
model, is a key factor for the successful deployment of
supply chain operations. The enactment of the process delivers
run-time data of processed instances, which can be passed
on to a process-monitoring phase, where running process
instances are surveyed. While the definition, modeling and
enactment of supply chain processes is well understood,
very few documents, which deal with analysis and business
intelligence aspects of supply chain processes, are found.
This paper suggests an E-technologies-based architectural
framework for a successful supply chain process management.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Role
of ERP in Improving Supply Chain Effectiveness:
A
Perceptual Study
-- V K Jain and
S S Bhakar
This
article evaluates the perception of executives working in
the area of supply chain management and ERP towards the
role of ERP in improving supply chain effectiveness.The
study is conducted on about 20 executives working with the
automobile, tyre manufacturing and pharmaceutical firms.
Findings from this exploratory study are twofold. First,
the main finding of experts/SCM members' experiences is
that, ERP positively contributes towards some parameters
of supply chain effectiveness. The second finding of this
study has emerged as some limitations of the current ERP
system and do not contribute in supply chain effectiveness.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Supply
Chain Issues in Globally Distributed Construction Businesses
-- Sourabh Bhattacharya,
Swati
Raman and Sunil Bharadwaj
Global
distribution of work is generally associated with the process
of subdividing a work/project into discrete or overlapping
components and distributing them among teams operating at
different geographical locations. These teams work together
to achieve work/project objectives from their respective
locations. Two of the major and primary reasons of distributing
work across geographically different locations are cost
reduction and access to new markets. Availability of educated
and skilled workforce in the developing industrializing
countries at cheaper costs is the main driver behind the
developed countries distributing their works in developing
countries. On the other hand, developing countries have
readily agreed to work on these works/projects as these
appear to be a major avenue of employment for their people.
The global distribution of work has expanded its wings into
various sectors of business, spanning from knowledge-intensive
sectors like Information Technology (IT), Biotechnology,
and Research and Development, to skill- and labor-intensive
sectors like Manufacturing, Engineering and Construction.
This paper deals with the various issues and challenges
that companies face while distributing their work between
geographically different locations. It lays special emphasis
on the issues and challenges related to construction companies.
Though the literature survey suggests various issues that
are common across all industries, construction industry
has its unique set of key concerns pertaining to distribution
of work globally. This paper tries to highlight these unique
pragmatic concerns along with the issues which are common
to most of the industries.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
Supply
Chain Management in the Spanish Textile Industry
--
Josep
Capó-Vicedo,
Manuel Expósito-Langa,
Enrique
Masiá and Francisco C Lario
This
paper focuses on the current trends in Supply Chains. With
regard to this, new organizational architectures have begun
to appear as a consequence of the strategic project pointing
to the integration into a Supply Chain. This integration
must be understood in the field of an Extended/Virtual Enterprise
as an extension and improvement of external company management,
which allows the basic/lows (physical and information),
within a customer orientation. This is a study of the textile
industry in Spain, which focuses on home-textile micro-cluster.
The most common enterprise relationships are established
with either the customer/supplier or it could be the other
enterprises in a similar business. In this area, subcontracting
is becoming increasingly important. This involves the specialization
of the companies involved, which, in turn, creates a change
in the organizational models of the sector. As a direct
consequence, some companies are establishing alliances constituted
as networks of collaborative companies, which act as nodes
in a Virtual Enterprise (VE), each of which contribute the
best part of its knowledge and experience. All operate directly
with the customer giving the impression that the customer
is dealing with a single company.
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2006 IUP . All Rights Reserved.
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