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Supply Chain Management: Managing the Supply Chain in Pediatric Healthcare

Journal of Strategic Innovation and Sustainability, 2018
Today, supply chain management as the foundation of successful business operations is rapidly advancing in both principle and practice. This, however, has not always been the case, and the prevalence of supply chain management as a prominent organizational strategy is a relatively recent development.
Brittany L. Hart, Mark E. McMurtrey
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Challenges in Supply Chain Management and Supply Chain Management Accounting

2020
The chapter provides an overview of the key challenges management accounting is confronted with in a supply chain environment. It outlines why and how cross-organizational collaboration differs from intracompany collaboration. Governance and coordination systems differ considerably between an individual firm and a network of multiple firms.
Andreas Taschner, Michel Charifzadeh
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Supply chain management and the Internet

Online Information Review, 2004
Supply chain management (SCM) encompasses all activities associated with a firm moving its composite flow of information, materials and services from the raw materials stage through production and on to the end customer. This includes sourcing and procurement, production scheduling, order processing, inventory management, transportation, manufacturing,
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Performance management in supply chain

SMC'03 Conference Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Conference Theme - System Security and Assurance (Cat. No.03CH37483), 2004
Appropriate performance management system is essential to the collaborative operation of the supply chain. This paper presents a quantitative performance measurement system for the supply chain. From time, quality, cost, and flexibility perspective, performance measures at department, enterprise and supply chain level are proposed.
Chunhua Tian, Yueting Chai, Yi Liu 0018, Shouju Ren   +3 more
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Supply Chain Risk Management

International Journal of Information and Decision Sciences, 2008
The existing models utilise a mean value approach with deterministic failure cost to determine the optimal number of suppliers in the presence of supplier failure risks. The mean value approach assumes, the firm has a linear utility function with respect to the supply disruptions.
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Automating supply-chain management

Proceedings of the first international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems part 3 - AAMAS '02, 2002
This paper explores a linguistic approach to coordination modeling as a formal basis for supply-chain management (SCM) in manufacturing. The approach promotes the interchange of standard documents: enterprises need only describe their supply processes using OAG business object documents and UML interaction diagrams.
Michael N. Huhns, Larry M. Stephens, Nenad Ivezic   +2 more
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RFID in Supply Chain Management

2010 International Conference on E-Business and E-Government, 2010
Supply chain management (SCM) is essential for a company. Effective SCM can always enable the company maintain a stable and lasting competitive advantage, thereby can increase its overall competitiveness. But there are two main problems in the traditional SCM, which are known as “Ripple Effect” mainly due to the delay of a particular activity which ...
Leian Liu, Zhiqiang Chen, Dashun Yan, Yi Lu, Hongjiang Wang   +4 more
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SCM – Supply Chain Management

2017
This chapter describes procedures and methods of demand forecasting and inventory management as basis for the successful implementation of supply chain management. Demand forecasting focuses on time series models and inventory management on economic order quantity (EOQ ) models.
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Green Supply Chain Management

There has been increased pressure from policymakers, company managers, the media, suppliers and customers for companies to implement green practices in their business models. The purpose is to combat climate change since companies are the main pollutants.
Lopes, João. M., Gomes, Sofia
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Financial supply chain management

Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2010
To effectively manage a supply chain, we should no longer focus on physical flow and informational flow only, but also the financial flow. The financial supply chain management (FSCM) extracts capital tied to the raw material, work-in-process, inventory in transit, and accounts receivable (accounts payable).
Miao He, Changrui Ren, Bing Shao, Qinhua Wang, Jin Dong   +4 more
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