Strategic Planning of BMW's Global Production Network Author(s): Bernhard Fleischmann, Sonja Ferber and Peter Henrich Source: Interfaces, Vol. 36, No. 3 (May - Jun., 2006), pp. 194-208 Published by: INFORMS Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20141389 . Accessed: 23/12/2013 16:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars
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that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. Wal-Mart is a retail giant. This company is the third largest public corporation in the world. Website link to the selected company, www.wallmart.com Background: Sam Walton, a businessman from Arkansas, began his retail career when he started work on June 3, 1940, at a J. C. Penney store in Des Moines, Iowa where he remained for 18 months. In 1945, he met Butler Brothers, a regional retailer that owned a chain of variety
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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 end the i2 failure turned out to be just a speed bump.”2 - Christopher Koch
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INTRODUCTION: LOGISTICS: The detailed coordination of a complex operation involving many people, facilities, or supplies and also the organization of moving, housing, and supplying troops and equipment. The term "logistics" originates from the ancient Greek "λόγος" ("logos"—"ratio, word, calculation, reason, speech, oration"). Logistics is considered to have originated in the military's need to supply themselves with arms, ammunition and rations as they moved from their base to a forward position. In ancient
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ANALYSIS OF SUPPLY CHAIN RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE GHANAIAN MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF KAMA PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background of the Study According to Hendricks and Singhal (2005), there is increased awareness and recognition among managers, consultants and academicians that supply chain performance is increasingly important to business success. In other words, supply chain plays an important strategic role in the world economy and that firms are
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Review on Impact of supply chain integration on the performance of Bahman group By- Fateme Moshkdanian Introduction: Supply chain integration is widely considered by both practitioners and researchers a vital contributor to supply chain performance. The two key flows in such relationships are material and information. In this paper, researcher has investigated
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1. Introduction In the challenges of global competition, companies worldwide are exploring different approaches to cut operation costs, improve product / service quality and meet rising customer’s expectation. According to Talha (2002), in order to compete effectively in global context, business firms must also have the flexibility to cope with short product life cycles, demands for greater product variety from more segmented customers and increasing international competition. One of the approaches
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integration of this concept with the Six Sigma concept, and thus we can talk about Lean Six Sigma, as an integrator method which guarantees high-class quality and lower costs. KEY WORDS: lean management, quality, performances, Six Sigma, the diminution of the defaults JEL CLASSIFICATION: L15, L16, L25, M10, M11, M16 1. INTRODUCTION Researches on production technologies, operations and performance reflect the increasing context of industrial competition in the global economic environment. A key objective
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colonies until 1859 when it relocated to Antwerp to become one of the global recognised company in commodity trading; with several operations and businesses in the North and South Americas with distribution capabilities that is spread across the world, Bunge identified facilities as a key driver of supply chain performance as it affects responsiveness and efficiency in market environment (Chopra & Meindl, pp. 64). As the company positioned to become the largest oilseed-processing firm in the globe
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Building Supply Chain Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry Part 2: Winning supply chain capabilities 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 In “Building Supply Chain Management Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry Part 1: Trends Impacting the
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