scholarly journals Habitat for Humanity: Florida’s Procurement Processes

10.28945/4128 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 001-024
Author(s):  
Sameer Mohammad
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Visualization Tool ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Habitat For Humanity ◽  
Home Building ◽  
The World ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

Habitat for Humanity (HFH) Florida is best known for their coordination of helping hand for the building of affordable homes in communities all across the world. Although effective at their mission, the organization had been procuring supplies the same way for decades, with no major analyses or innovations to their processes. HFH Florida’s CEO, Barbara Inman, decided to reach out to the University of South Florida’s (USF) Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) for an analysis of their current decentralized procurement methodology. The group was also tasked with providing recommendations to the way HFH procures home-building supplies. USF CSCMP gathered and analyzed available purchasing data from 11 HFH locations across Florida, using Tableau as a statistical visualization tool for HFH’s CEO.

scholarly journals Penciptaan Model Pembelajaran Bisnis Melalui Game “Chochorillo : The Lost Receipes”

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 93
Author(s):  
Dhia Ayu Sabrina Soewandi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Business Education ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Educational Game ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Business Simulation ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The World

Implementation of business education in the world of education is very important. However, many theories and teaching monotonous nature led to the knowledge of the business is difficult to be well understood. Thus, to introduce supply chain management as the business processes of an enterprise, it takes a learning method that is more innovative and creative as well as promoting business practices. One method of teaching that can address these problems is with education game business simulation genre. Chocorillo: The Lost Recipes is an educational game that teaches the business of business learning, especially concerning supply chain management which is packed with gameplay that is fun and exciting game story. This game there are 29 characters that the player can interact with them, doing quests from them, and resolve social problems that occur. The creation of this work is expected to generate business educational game that can provide learning effects without compromising the beauty aspect of the graphics so players do not get bored easily in use.Keywords: Android, game edukasi, bisnis, unity, supply chain management. AbstrakPenerapan pendidikan bisnis dalam dunia pendidikan merupakan hal yang sangat penting. Akan tetapi, banyaknya teori dan sifat pengajaran yang monoton menyebabkan pengetahuan akan bisnis sulit untuk dipahami dengan baik. Dengan demikian, untuk memperkenalkan supply chain management sebagai proses bisnis suatu perusahaan, dibutuhkan sebuah metode pembelajaran yang lebih inovatif dan kreatif serta mengedepankan praktik dalam bisnis. Salah satu metode pengajaran yang dapat menjawab permasalahan tersebut adalah dengan game edukasi bisnis bergenre simulasi. Chocorillo: The Lost Recipes merupakan game edukasi bisnis yang mengajarkan pembelajaran bisnis khususnya tentang supply chain management yang dikemas dengan gameplay yang menyenangkan dan game story yang menarik. Game ini terdapat 29 karakter yang pemain dapat berinteraksi dengan mereka, mengerjakan quest dari mereka, dan menyelesaikan permasalahan sosial yang terjadi. Penciptaan karya ini diharapkan dapat menghasilkan game edukasi bisnis yang dapat memberikan efek pembelajaran tanpa mengurangi aspek keindahan grafis sehingga pemain tidak mudah bosan dalam menggunakannya.Kata kunci: Android, game edukasi, bisnis, unity, supply chain management 

E-Business Supply Chains Drivers, Metrics, and ERP Integration

2018 ◽  
pp. 5345-5356
Author(s):  
Jean C. Essila
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Organizational Success ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Driver Performance ◽  
The World ◽  
Performance Drivers ◽  
Erp Integration

The world of business is witnessing the emergence of electronic supply chains (e-SC). As more business is performed via the Internet, e-SCs are becoming an integral part of supply chain management SCM). With business via the Internet requiring different fulfillment approaches, traditional drivers of regular supply chains are no longer adequate for explaining how e-SC performance is driven. The task of SC professionals is more complicated than ever. This situation often leads to unsatisfied customers, which can force companies to close their doors. Therefore, understanding e-SCM performance drivers and their integration with ERP becomes a necessity. Little attention has been devoted to SCM performance driver evaluation. This article discusses the performance drivers of e-SCs and their integration with ERPs. SCM is among the most important factors to organizational success. Effective SCM can enhance competitiveness and increase profitability. Nevertheless, SCM professionals and other actors must understand the factors that undergird driver performance.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Recession Recovery

2017 ◽  
pp. 68-93
Author(s):  
Debasri Dey
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
General Concept ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Literature Reviews ◽  
Recovery Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Supply Chain Management System

The challenges presented by recent changes in the business environment have sharpened the focus on the need for robust approaches to supply chain improvement. For most companies around the world, resources have been reduced, inventory drained, technology spending curtailed, and core processes scaled back in order to adjust to the current reality of reduced demand. So, this paper mainly concentrates on giving some tips based on recession recovery strategies. Firstly, this paper discussed the supply chain management trends in and up to 2015, then general concept of recession and the relation between recession and supply chain management system, then some fatal mistakes of recession recovery according to the supply chain experts and recession and recovery related literature reviews are summarized to identify ultimately the recession recovery strategies for the manufacturer. The paper ended with some supply chain management related predictions, tips for reducing supply chain barriers. Moreover, a brief section of this paper also here highlights the supply-chain infrastructure helpful for recession recovery that is one of the important factors for the reason of cost-reduction, resource planning and maintenance etc. in today's supply chain management and related environment.

Global Supply Chain Management Conference

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-65
Author(s):  
Durango Vasthu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Global Supply Chain Management ◽  
Management Professionals ◽  
Logistics Planning

The 2011 annual ‘big event’ in the global supply chain industry was held in Philadelphia PA USA during the week of October 2-5. This event is organized each year, and is the official global meeting, for the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP, http://cscmp.org/events/annual-global/sessionsearch-after.asp). The conference featured risk-related topics ranging from inventory forecasting to reverse logistics planning in globally-impacted markets.

Managing the Network of Supply and Demand at AGL Energy

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Tim Coltman ◽  
Peter Reynolds ◽  
Frank Schlosser ◽  
Alan Thorogood
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Price Variability ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Customer Churn ◽  
The World ◽  
World Demand

AGL Energy operates in one of the most fiercely competitive markets in the world. Demand is volatile with high customer churn rates and supply procurement is real time with huge price variability. These characteristics make supply chain management difficult and the case study describes how information is used to match supply with demand.

Anti-Counterfeit Technologies for Spurious Drugs in India

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruchi Dass ◽  
Bharat Gajjar
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Mobile Radio ◽  
Counterfeit Drugs ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Counterfeit Medicines ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Publicity

The problem of counterfeit drugs in India has led to significant negative publicity around the world. In this paper, the author discusses how mobile/radio based and other technologies are not only helping educate people on how to check counterfeit medicines and supply chain management, but also promoting disease surveillance and spurious drugs data collection.

scholarly journals Scientific contributions in the field of Transport and Supply Chain Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Kruger
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
The University

The Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management at the University of Johannesburg proudly presents to you Volume 7 of the Journal of Transport and Supply Chain Management (JTSCM), an accredited publication unique to South Africa.

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