Rationalization of Raw Materials Supply in a Manufacturing Company—Case Study

TRADE OF RETURN PACKAGING IN THE PROCESS OF DELIVERY OF RAW MATERIALS ON THE EXAMPLE OF KICO-POLSKA SP. Z O.O.

Acta Logistica ◽

10.22306/al.v8i4.229 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 309-317

Author(s):

Tomasz Legiędź ◽

Katarzyna Huk

Keyword(s):

Raw Materials ◽

Manufacturing Company ◽

Production Company ◽

The Impact

An effective enterprise means correctly implemented processes. Today, logistics plays an important role in the company, and it influences the processes carried out in production companies, ensuring the implementation of its most important function - production. The article analyses the processes of trading in returnable packaging. The optimisation of these activities was carried out on the basis of a program for simulating logistics processes. The main purpose of the article is to identify the impact of the processes of material delivery and packaging turnover on the functioning of a production company. The article is based on a case study of a manufacturing company. In the discussed case, the FlexSim program was used to simulate logistic processes. The situation presented in the article allows to shorten the time and reduce costs that were necessary for the accepted materials to be made available for processing by introducing returnable packaging, adapted to be transferred directly to production. Suppliers providing them with materials will allow you to bypass the unnecessary process. Such activities also result in the circulation of returnable packaging.

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Improvements in Web Based ERP Software Architecture as Implemented on the Cloud

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse.v7i11.425 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (11) ◽

pp. 22

Author(s):

Shruti Makarand Kanade

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Information Technology ◽

Cloud Computing ◽

Software Architecture ◽

Enterprise Resource Planning ◽

Resource Planning ◽

Web Based ◽

Manufacturing Company ◽

Erp Software

Cloud computing is the buzz word in today’s Information Technology. It can be used in various fields like banking, health care and education. Some of its major advantages that is pay-per-use and scaling, can be profitably implemented in development of Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP. There are various challenges in implementing an ERP on the cloud. In this paper, we discuss some of them like ERP software architecture by considering a case study of a manufacturing company.

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STRATEGI MENINGKATKAN LOYALITAS KONSUMEN MAKANAN KHAS KOTA CURUP KABUPATEN REJANG LEBONG

10.31219/osf.io/r5268 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Onsardi Onsardi

Keyword(s):

Swot Analysis ◽

Raw Materials ◽

External Factors ◽

Consumer Loyalty ◽

Internal Factors ◽

The Public ◽

Typical Food ◽

Internal And External Factors

The title of this study is the Strategy of Increasing Consumer Food Loyalty in CurupCity, Rejang Lebong Regency (Case Study in "Henvian" Typical Food Industry). Thisresearch is based on the importance of strategies in increasing business and consumerloyalty to products sold.Strategies to increase business and consumer loyalty can bedone with a SWOT analysis. Place of this research is the "Henvian" shop that sellstypical Rejang lebong food. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative.Informants in this study were people who were considered to know for certain about theHENVIAN Specialty Food Store in Curup City, Rejang Lebong Regency. The dataanalysis technique used in this study is a SWOT analysis to determine the strengths,weaknesses, opportunities and threats in a typical Rejang Lebong food business.By using SWOT analysis techniques that consist of strengths (weakness), weaknesses(weakness), opportunities (opportnity) and threats (threath). The results of this studycan be concluded that the internal factors that are the strength of the marketing strategyare the quality of the product that is good at a price affordable to the public andtourists, service that is friendly and responsive to consumer needs, as well astechnological advancements that facilitate the promotion of business. Internal factorsthat are a weakness are often lack of stock, there are some products that do not meet thestandard packaging, the product shelf life is short, employees do not use uniforms.External factors that become opportunities are a fairly high economic community,abundant raw materials while external factors that are a threat are the manycompetitors, an unstable economy, the price of basic needs increases. Based on theresults of the SWOT analysis of internal and external factors, the strategy used is toimprove product quality by improving the appearance of packaging and quality ofcontent and quality of service by providing uniforms to employees and providingstandards of service to consumers. .Keywords: Strategy, Consumer Loyalty, SWOT

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Life Cycle Costing: Understanding How It Is Practised and Its Relationship to Life Cycle Management—A Case Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12083252 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (8) ◽

pp. 3252 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marianna Lena Kambanou

Keyword(s):

Life Cycle ◽

Life Cycle Management ◽

Life Cycle Costing ◽

Methodological Choices ◽

Manufacturing Company

Despite the existence of many life cycle costing (LCC) methods, LCC is not widely adopted and LCC methods are usually further tailored by practitioners. Moreover, little is known about how practising LCC improves life cycle management (LCM) especially if LCM is considered emergent and constantly developing. In a manufacturing company, LCC is prescriptively introduced to improve LCM. In the first part, this study describes how various methodological choices and other aspects of practising LCC were the outcome of contestation and conformity with extant practices and not only the best way to fulfil the LCC’s objective. This contestation can even influence if LCC is adopted. In the second part of the research, the implications of practising LCC on LCM are explored. LCC is found to positively propel LCM in many ways e.g., by spreading the life cycle idea, but may lead to a narrower understanding of the term life cycle resulting in the sustainability focus of LCM being overridden. The article also discusses how the findings can be taken into consideration when researchers develop LCC methods and when industry practises LCC.

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Using Enterprise Architecture to Integrate Lean Manufacturing, Digitalization, and Sustainability: A Lean Enterprise Case Study in the Chemical Industry

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13094851 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (9) ◽

pp. 4851

Author(s):

Ming-Hui Liao ◽

Chi-Tai Wang

Keyword(s):

Chemical Industry ◽

Lean Manufacturing ◽

Enterprise Architecture ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Core Competencies ◽

Sustainable Business ◽

Business Transformation ◽

Lean Enterprise ◽

Architecture Framework

The chemical industry has sustained the development of global economies by providing an astonishing variety of products and services, while also consuming massive amounts of raw materials and energy. Chemical firms are currently under tremendous pressure to become lean enterprises capable of executing not only traditional lean manufacturing practices but also emerging competing strategies of digitalization and sustainability. All of these are core competencies required for chemical firms to compete and thrive in future markets. Unfortunately, reports of successful transformation are so rare among chemical firms that acquiring the details of these cases would seem an almost impossible mission. The severe lack of knowledge about these business transformations thus provided a strong motivation for this research. Using The Open Group Architecture Framework, we performed an in-depth study on a real business transformation occurring at a major international chemical corporation, extracting the architecture framework possibly adopted by this firm to become a lean enterprise. This comprehensive case study resulted in two major contributions to the field of sustainable business transformation: (1) a custom lean enterprise architecture framework applicable to common chemical firms making a similar transformation, and (2) a lean enterprise model developed to assist chemical firms in comprehending the intricate and complicated dynamics between lean manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.

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Cooperation and tensions in multiethnic corporate societies using Teotihuacan, Central Mexico, as a case study

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1419881112 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 112 (30) ◽

pp. 9210-9215 ◽

Cited By ~ 27

Author(s):

Linda R. Manzanilla

Keyword(s):

Gulf Coast ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Volcanic Eruptions ◽

Cotton Cloth ◽

Central Mexico ◽

Economic Power ◽

Ruling Elite ◽

Strong Ties ◽

The Core

In this paper, I address the case of a corporate society in Central Mexico. After volcanic eruptions triggered population displacements in the southern Basin of Mexico during the first and fourth centuries A.D., Teotihuacan became a multiethnic settlement. Groups from different backgrounds settled primarily on the periphery of the metropolis; nevertheless, around the core, intermediate elites actively fostered the movement of sumptuary goods and the arrival of workers from diverse homelands for a range of specialized tasks. Some of these skilled craftsmen acquired status and perhaps economic power as a result of the dynamic competition among neighborhoods to display the most lavish sumptuary goods, as well as to manufacture specific symbols of identity that distinguished one neighborhood from another, such as elaborate garments and headdresses. Cotton attire worn by the Teotihuacan elite may have been one of the goods that granted economic importance to neighborhood centers such as Teopancazco, a compound that displayed strong ties to the Gulf Coast where cotton cloth was made. The ruling elite controlled raw materials that came from afar whereas the intermediate elite may have been more active in providing other sumptuary goods: pigments, cosmetics, slate, greenstone, travertine, and foreign pottery. The contrast between the corporate organization at the base and top of Teotihuacan society and the exclusionary organization of the neighborhoods headed by the highly competitive intermediate elite introduced tensions that set the stage for Teotihuacan’s collapse.

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