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Port supply chain integration: analyzing biofuel supply chains [PDF]
Maritime Policy & Management, 2015 This paper focuses on port supply chain integration to strengthen operational and business performance. We provide a structured and comprehensive method to enable port supply chain integration and demonstrate its applicability to the biofuel supply chain.
Leonie C. E. Stevens, Iris F. A. Vis
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Integrating product design into the supply chain [PDF]
Cogent Engineering, 2016 Purpose: The aim of the research is to illustrate how companies can create competitive capabilities through integration of product design into the supply chain. In doing so the paper reveals the challenges and the opportunities that companies face when integrating product design and supply chain.
Omera Khan +3 more
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Smartwatch Integration in Digital Supply Chains
, 2021 As the maturity of digital integrated supply chains grows, the amount of operations which are tracked or which are directly controlled by a computerised system has seen a rapid increase with the emergence of the Industry 4.0 paradigm. This is notably desired in high-cost countries where having an overview on the supply chain is crucial in ensuring the ...
Ioan-Matei Sarivan +3 more
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Risk Minimisation in Integrated Supply Chains [PDF]
Open Engineering, 2019 Abstract Integrated supply chains, due to their complexity, are vulnerable in relation to various types of risks, especially in the present turbulent market environment, characterised by increased demand for effectiveness of the individual logistic activities, extended customer service and decreased cost.
Strohmandl, Jan, Čujan, Zdeněk
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eBusiness and supply chain integration [PDF]
Journal of Enterprise Information Management, 2008 PurposeThe purpose of this study is to examine how four large organisations have approached the implementation of new eBusiness mechanisms: namely online order processing, eProcurement, reverse auctions, and a private exchange. The objectives are to establish whether supply chain integration is an identified goal for the firms involved and to evaluate ...
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Supply chain integration, product modularity, and market valuation: evidence from the solar energy industry [PDF]
, 2013 Supply chain integration is increasingly seen as a method to obtain flexibility and, consequently, to provide competitive advantage for firms within a supply chain.
Davies, J, Joglekar, N
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South African Journal of Business Management, 2019 Background: It is understood that improving performance has become an important objective of supply chains. As such, strategies have been adopted as an effort towards increasing performance. Amongst these strategies, partnership, collaboration and integration have been identified.
Mofokeng, T.M, Chinomona, R
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Evaluating the integration of supply chain information systems: A case study [PDF]
, 2004 Supply chain management (SCM) is the integrated management of business links, information flows and people. It is with this frame of reference that information systems integration from both intra- and inter-organisational levels becomes significant ...
Bartezzaghi +30 more
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Supply Chain Integration [PDF]
, 2012 Since its introduction by management consultants in the early 1980s, supply chain management (SCM) has been primarily concerned with the integration of processes and activities both within and between organisations. The concept of supply chain integration (SCI) is based on documented evidence that suggests that much of the waste throughout businesses ...
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Decision-Making for Supply Chain Integration [PDF]
, 2012 Effective supply chain integration, and the tight co-ordination it creates, is an essential pre-requisite for successful supply chain management. Decision-Making for Supply Chain Integration is a practical reference on recent research in the area of supply chain integration focusing on distributed decision-making problems.
Hing Kai Chan +2 more
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