...EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES: RFID RFID TECHNOLOGIES: SUPPLY-CHAIN APPLICATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES Rebecca Angeles RFID technologies hold the promise of closing some of the information gaps in the supply chain, especially in retailing and logistics. As a mobile technology, RFID can enable “process freedoms” and real-time visibility into supply chains. This article provides an introduction to the technology, several case examples, and implementation guidelines for managers based on published reports. REBECCA ANGELES is an Associate Professor, Management Information Systems Area, Faculty of Administration, University of New Brunswick Fredericton, Canada. Her current research interests include B2B commerce, mobile commerce and supply chain management. EWLY EMERGING WIRELESS TECHnologies, one of which is radio frequency identification (RFID), hold the promise of closing the information gaps in the supply chain. The applications of RFID are wide-ranging and include the manufacturing and distribution of physical goods such as automobiles and transmission assembly (Mintchell, 2002), minting bank notes (Anonymous2, 2002), oil exploration (Anonymous1, 2002), shipping and port operations (D’Amico, 2002; Dornheim, 2002), and pharmaceutical packaging processes (Forcinio, 2002), among others. Keen and Macintosh (2001) consider RFID technologies as part of the “universal infrastructure” that will support mobile commerce. These authors also foresee RFID as an example of technologies...
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...Ashley Martin Case 13- Lean implementation and supply chain development at Oak Hills 10/03/13 1. What are the specific quality problems Oak Hills is facing, and how will they influence the company’s ability to convert to a lean system? * One major problem of Oak Hills processes is their internal customers and suppliers. BlackDome, an internal supplier of Oak Hills, was often late on deliveries but attributed this to rush orders placed by Oak Hills internal customer E&E. The internal processes between units are lacking effective communication between E&E and Oak Hills. E&E does not provide Oak Hills with information concerning their current or impending projects, so Oak Hills know little about what projects require the testing instruments that they supplied them. * Another problem was the fact that E&E customers were used to the luxury of placing rush orders. There for the plant had to maintain a high level of raw materials inventory on-site, costing them space and money. * Another problem is their use of the batch flow system. * They need to locate production and warehousing facilities closer to their customers. * Require suppliers to deliver smaller quantities, more frequently. In order for Oak Hills to implement a successful lean system there must be improved communication between its’ internal units. Oak Hills needs to require E&E unit to forecast their demand more accurately, so they can reduce the amount of expedited orders, and be better prepared...
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...dell enterprise technology center series Implementation Study: Dell IT Scales Supply Chain Management with Oracle RAC 10g By Dave Jaffe, Ph.D. Todd Muirhead Tiong Tey Raveendra Avutu T When the expensive proprietary servers running the Dell supply chain management systems had reached their limits, the Dell IT group migrated to cost-effective, standards-based Dell ™ PowerEdge™ servers running Oracle® Real Application Clusters 10g. This architecture helped enhance database performance while providing scalability for future growth. tiple locations around the world. Using the same processes worldwide manufacturing operations, including the for disaster recovery, backup, and monitoring across all Dell operations enables Dell IT to take advantage of a cost- delivery of computers, accessories, parts, and supplies. These effective and readily supported deployment model. This systems must be designed for reliability and cost-effective scal- Database implemented this type of system for Dell operations at mul- systems handle key business functions that support efficient Dell inventory management model and fast, direct Related Categories: he Dell supply chain management (SCM) database article describes how Dell IT migrated its critical SCM appli- ability: a failure can cost thousands of dollars per minute in cations from proprietary UNIX-based servers to industry- factory downtime, and the SCM systems must be able to ...
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...Implementation of Supply chain Management for adoption and integration of centralized communication in railway industry in Sydney, Australia Prepared by 9-5-014 Introduction The Australian Transport and Logistics (T&l) industry is the soul of our country's financial well‐being, creating 14.5% of Australia's GDP and giving more than 1 million employments over 165,000 companies1. Without it our blossoming assets trades, our rural yield, the merchandise on our general store racks and our workers can't achieve their ends of the line, whether that be China, Tamworth or George Street in Sydney. Australia's rail industry has encountered a remarkable time of change and re-organizing over the previous decade, beginning with making of the National Rail Corporation in 1993 and the split and privatization of Australian National in 1996. With few special cases, the institutional and possession courses of action that had since a long time ago portrayed Australian lines until the early 1990's are to a great extent unrecognizable today. Close by these real changes, there have been critical changes in the rail possession base and staffing, most prominently an extreme decrease in the business' specifically utilized workforce to around one-third today of what it had been approximately 20 years prior. Australian rail is no more the work escalated and totally unionized industry that it had generally been, with numerous capacities outsourced to authority suppliers and others having vanished...
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...logistics and supply chain management cases Given by Yang Cheng Assistant Professor, PhD chengyangxy@gmail.com Purposes • This talk is o To outline a framework for analysing supply chain situations o This is not a prescriptive approach that can be applied without thought to all situations, rather it provides a series of checklists of factors to consider • Cases o Some deal with the full scope of an organisation’s supply chain from raw material supplies through to delivery of a finished product to the end user o Others deal with one part of the supply chain such as retailing or manufacturing o Advisable to set the specific problem in the context of the overall supply chain system Defining logistics and supply chain management The process of planning, implementing and controlling the efficient, cost-effective flow and storage of raw materials, in-process inventory, finished goods and related information from pointof-origin to point of final consumption for the purpose of conforming to customer requirements ---US Council of Logistics Management in 1986 Key features of logistics • It is concerned with movement and storage of materials • It is concerned with managing the information flows that underpin the flow of materials • Its scope ranges across the whole supply chain from point of origin of raw materials to final consumption of finished products • It requires a single logic to plan and organise this flow of materials throughout the supply chain • It has two...
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...Research paper Supply chain management integration and implementation: a literature review Damien Power Department of Management, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to the integration and implementation of supply chain management practices from a strategic viewpoint. Design/methodology/approach – The literature is examined from three perspectives. First, supply chain integration covers issues relating to integration of core processes across organizational boundaries through improved communication, partnerships, alliances and cooperation. Second, strategy and planning examines supply chain management as a strategic matter for trading partners, along with factors relating to the amount of planning required. Third, implementation issues concern factors critical for successful implementation, as well as issues specific to inter and intraorganizational aspects of supply chain initiatives are contained in this sub-group Findings – An important emergent theme from the literature is the importance of taking a holistic view, and the systemic nature of interactions between the participants. At the same time, it is also apparent that this requirement to take such an holistic and systemic view of the supply chain acts as an impediment to more extensive implementation. The strategic nature of adopting a supply chain wide perspective, on the one hand provides significant potential...
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...PROJECT QUESTION THREE: “Develop a supply chain operations plan for a hypothetical new enterprise, based on information about real-world resources, vendors and customers. Justify the design”. COMPANY’S NAME: FLETCHER DELIVERY SERVICES (FDS) TABLE OF CONTENTS 1.0 Introduction 2.0 Problems 3.0 Purpose of Supply Chain Strategy 4.0 Goals of the Company (FDS) 5.0 Strategic Vision 6.0 Strategic Mission 7.0 Corporate or Company’s Vision 8.0 Abstract 9.0 Developing a Strategic Supply Chain Operations Plan 10.0 Components of the Plan 11.0 Implementations of Defined Strategies 12.0 Avoiding Business Failures 13.0 Recognizing Organization Challenges 14.0 Conclusions 15.0 References 1.0 INTRODUCTION FLETCHER DELIVERY SERVICES (FDS) has just gone into business of parcel and package courier delivery service. Before the coming of FDS, deliveries are not on time, parcels and packages are poorly handled without proper care and the security of packages. The company needs a Supply Chain Operations Plan so as to be able to compete and even have a competitive advantage over the existing delivery companies. There is a need for putting in place, a Supply Chain Strategy that will be interactive enough as to be able to constantly evaluate all the operational components including the costs, the benefits and the trade-offs (Happek, 2005). There is going to be in place a Business Strategy (BS) for FDS that among other things, will prompt its core competencies into achieving...
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...THE IMPACT OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ON GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS A Research Dissertation by GEORGE FREDERICK JACOBSON STUDENT NO. 94032512 B. TECH: PURCHASING MANAGEMENT Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree MBA in the Business School Faculty of Management Sciences TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Supervisor: Prof. J A Watkins Pretoria 4 June 2007 PUBLICATION OF DISSERTATION The attention of the reader is specifically drawn to the fact that the national Government departments, who sanctioned this research study, specifically requested that the work should not be published due to the sensitivity of ongoing remedial actions. DECLARATION OF COPYRIGHT I hereby declare that this dissertation submitted for the degree (Magister Technologia) at the Tshwane University of Technology, is my own original unaided work and has not previously been submitted to any other institution or higher education. I further declare that all sources cited are cited or quoted are indicated or acknowledged by means of a comprehensive list of references. G.F. JACOBSON Copyright© Tshwane University of Technology (2007) i DEDICATION This study is dedicated to my family and friends for their love and support through this process allowing me to grow as a person. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my sincere gratitude and appreciation to the following: My Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ for His continued blessings...
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...in Supply Chain Management: Case Study 1 RFID and increased Supply Chain efficiency By Hilal Al Harthy Yanee Angsukran Vikram Ramakrishnappa Gowda Paul Macinnes Thakerngkorn Pothibourthong Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Introduction 3. RFID in Operations - Wal-Mart case study 4. RFID in Logistics - Canadian Airlines case study 5. The Risks of RFID technology in the Supply Chain 6. Conclusions 7. References 1. Executive Summary RFID is an emerging Information technology system in Supply Chain management. The purpose of using this technology is to speed up processes, improve efficiency and reduce operational costs. Looking at large companies who have implemented such schemes, we can see that although implementation and operational factors can be barriers, RFID technology is beneficial to Supply Chain operations. In terms of Implementation, the high costs and low initial ROI (Return On Investment) can make the use of RFID technology appear unattractive when first deployed. In terms of Operations, The technical difficulties for RFID produced by certain manufacturing environments can be a major obstacle, as well as difficulties integrating supply chain partners into a RFID based Supply Chain. Despite this, research revealed that RFID provides improvements to a Supply Chains core efficiency, which positively impacts upon running costs. It is suggested therefore that the use of RFID in the Supply Chain...
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...2014 BOOK: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT AUTHORS:- * PROF. N.H. MULLICK * PROF. MOHD. ALTAF KHAN BOOK REVIEW:- Prof. Mullick and Prof. Khan has written this book with an objective to present a well-documented theory on supply chain management. Supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the distribution of these finished products to customers. Supply chain management is typically viewed to lie between fully vertically integrated firms, where the entire material flow is owned by a single firm, and those where each channel member operates independently. There are four major decision areas in supply chain management which are location, production, inventory and transportation and there are both operational elements in each of these decision areas .In essence, supply chain management integrates supply and demand management within and across companies. Supply chain is one way to implement Quick Response Manufacturing (QRM) and which is quite similar to Just In Time (JIT) concept. Supply chain integration reference model has four major components :- * Business process models * Material flow logistics model * Information model * Decision process model The main emphasis of book lies in explaining that Supply chain management is an integrated system of organizations...
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...ICMR Case Collection C op y ICFAI Center for Management Research N OPER 049 ot SCM and ERP Software Implementation at Nike – From Failure to Success D o This case was written by Ruchi N. Chaturvedi, under the direction of Vivek Gupta, ICFAI Center for Management Research (ICMR). It was compiled from published sources, and is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. 2005, ICFAI Center for Management Research. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, used in a spreadsheet, or transmitted in any form or by any means- electronic or mechanical, without permission. To order copies, call 0091-40-2343-0462/63/64 or write to ICFAI Center for Management Research, Plot # 49, Nagarjuna Hills, Hyderabad 500 082, India or email icmr@icfai.org. Website: www.icmrindia.org OPER/049 SCM AND ERP SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATION AT NIKE – FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS “We became a poster child for failed implementations.”1 - Roland Wolfram, Vice-president - Global Operations, Nike Corporation, commenting on the i2 software implementation failure in 2000. op y “The lesson of Nike’s failure and subsequent rebound lies in the fact that it had a sound business plan that was widely understood and accepted at every level of the company. Given that resiliency it afforded the company, in the...
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...further analysis of existing process for the production of the Riordan electric fans. It provides the basic outline for designing the new process to remove the bottleneck in the process to optimize it for meeting the demands of customer by supply-chain concepts. Production forecast for the Riordan electric fans is discussed along with implementation plan of Lean Production using Gantt Charts. Finally, cover letter describes the coordination of aggregate operations planning and suggested TQM process to define the strategic objective of the company. The MRP for the Manufacturing of the Riordan Electric Fans The China plant of Riordan Manufacturing is the production unit which applies material requirement planning to meet the time-phased requirement of material for assembled units or fan production operations. Raw materials are collected at receiving departments. These are processed to make it suitable for molding departments. The molded unit acts as input for trimming department which can be selectively used for creating further parts. Sometimes, it can become waste by-products. The trimmed parts are assembled at the assembly department to create higher components. These components are handled at packaging department. The shipping department supplies the packaged units of electric fans for distribution unit. (University of Phoenix, 2009). There are scrap...
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...The Supply Chain Management Association Table of Contents Executive Summary…………………………….…………………………………..3 Environment and Root Cause Analysis…………………………………….4 Issue Identification……………………………………….…………………………4 Alternatives and Options………………………………………………………..5 Recommendations…………………………………………….…..……………….6 Implementation…………………………………………………..………………….6 Monitor and Control……………………………………………..……….………7 Exhibit One: ………………….…………………………………….………….…….7 Exhibit Two: ………………….…………………………………….………….…….8 Executive Summary “How should the company use emerging information technologies and ides from new high tech industries to change the way it interacted with suppliers?” Supply chain management at Ford was a push system until 1995, at this time the model changed to a made to stock system. Due to the complexity of the existing supply chain, there is an urgent need for change. Founded over a 100 years ago, Ford currently has many processes in place, that will not be changed in an easy, cost effective manner. Dell uses a virtual integration business model that has been modified throughout the past 15 years to be as efficient as possible for Dell. Implementation of virtual integration business model, similar to Dell, will make the supply chain more cost effective, therefore increasing revenues. However, based on the differences within the two industries, I recommend a partial implementation of virtual integration model. Using information technology Ford Issue Identification ...
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...Supply Chain Strategy The Importance of Aligning Your Strategies UPS Supply Chain SolutionsSM Copyright © 2005 United Parcel Service of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Our Insight. A UPS Supply Chain Solutions White Paper Introduction Chances are you’ve heard the term supply chain strategy. Used informally, it is often confused with supply chain management, where supply chain operations are controlled to reduce costs. There’s some truth to this definition, but supply chain strategy really is broader; it defines how the supply chain should operate in order to compete. Supply chain strategy is an iterative process that evaluates the costbenefit trade-offs of operational components. A well executed supply chain strategy results in value creation for the organization. Business strategy involves leveraging the core competencies of the organization to achieve a defined high-level goal or objective. It also includes the analytic and decision-making process surrounding what to offer (e.g., products and services), when to offer (timing, business cycles, etc), and where to offer (e.g., markets and segments) as a competitive plan. While the business strategy constitutes the overall direction that an organization wishes to go, the supply chain strategy constitutes the actual operations of that organization and the extended supply chain to...
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...ASCM 629 SUPPLY CHAIN LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT MID-TERM EXAMINATION Each essay answer for questions 1 through 10 is worth ten points. Please use a between 150 and 300 words per answer. Your answer may include content from text or readings, conference discussions, or relevant workplace examples. These must not be merely cut-and-pasted from other sources. Please do not contact a UMUC Reference Specialist in developing any answer, as discussed in the syllabus. The answer for question 11 covering the SCM Globe Simulation should be at least 500 words and will take as long as required to discuss and document your learnings during Weeks 1 through 6. This answer is worth 100 points and represents ten percent of your course grade. Please save the examination with answers as a Microsoft Word document under a new filename the includes your last name, section (either 9040 or 9041) and “midterm.” An example is \scheer9040midterm.doc . Please include your name and section number at the heading inside the document. Answers should appear in order, from one through ten. Please make sure you have an answer for each question before submitting it for grading. Completed exams are to be submitted in the mid-term examination assignments folder. These are due before Saturday, March 24, at 11:59 PM ET. Note that your assignments folder is locked after this time and the exam cannot be submitted. The test represents 30 percent of your total class grade, so please spend quality time in preparing answers. I estimate...
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