Roles of Intermediaries in Developing Resilient Systems

2017 ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Hingley ◽  
Eliseo L. Vilalta-Perdomo
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Marketing ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Regional Food ◽  
Community Approach ◽  
Complementary Nature ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Direct Distribution ◽  
Umbrella Group

This theoretical chapter discusses the role that intermediaries may play in direct distribution, supply chains and supply networks. The first approach does not recognize benefits from striving for collaboration and avoids intermediaries' participation as much as possible. Conversely, the latter two emphasize the creation of economic and efficiency values, through the alignment of goals and resources directed by a stronger channel lead body. However, in the case of micro-producers, increasing these values is not the only motivation; lifestyle or esteem factors may be, for example, more potent drivers. The research extends multi-actor supply arrangements beyond chains and networks, by introducing the concept of supply communities. This is illustrated through a vignette of a regional food marketing umbrella group that plays an organizing role. Findings suggest intermediaries to act as triggers for collaboration. The complementary nature of the community approach suggests a framework for micro-businesses to strengthen their operations with existing traditional supply arrangements.

scholarly journals Subnational mobility and consumption-based environmental accounting of US corn in animal protein and ethanol supply chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (38) ◽  
pp. E7891-E7899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Smith ◽  
Andrew L. Goodkind ◽  
Taegon Kim ◽  
Rylie E. O. Pelton ◽  
Kyo Suh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Animal Protein ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Supply Networks

Corn production, and its associated inputs, is a relatively large source of greenhouse gas emissions and uses significant amounts of water and land, thus contributing to climate change, fossil fuel depletion, local air pollutants, and local water scarcity. As large consumers of this corn, corporations in the ethanol and animal protein industries are increasingly assessing and reporting sustainability impacts across their supply chains to identify, prioritize, and communicate sustainability risks and opportunities material to their operations. In doing so, many have discovered that the direct impacts of their owned operations are dwarfed by those upstream in the supply chain, requiring transparency and knowledge about environmental impacts along the supply chains. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been used to identify hotspots of environmental impacts at national levels, yet these provide little subnational information necessary for guiding firms’ specific supply networks. In this paper, our Food System Supply-Chain Sustainability (FoodS3) model connects spatial, firm-specific demand of corn purchasers with upstream corn production in the United States through a cost minimization transport model. This provides a means to link county-level corn production in the United States to firm-specific demand locations associated with downstream processing facilities. Our model substantially improves current LCA assessment efforts that are confined to broad national or state level impacts. In drilling down to subnational levels of environmental impacts that occur over heterogeneous areas and aggregating these landscape impacts by specific supply networks, targeted opportunities for improvements to the sustainability performance of supply chains are identified.

A Supplementary Framework for Evaluation of Integrated Logistics Service Provider

2010 ◽  
pp. 763-781 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwok Hung Lau ◽  
Wun Leong Ma
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Business Organizations ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
International Firms ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
The Right ◽  
Integrated Logistics

As a result of globalization, supply chains of many large business organizations nowadays tend to cover wider geographic areas spanning across different countries and continents. The growth in length and complexity gradually replaces the traditional linear supply chains with extended supply networks comprising not only suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and end customers, but also service providers. With the increasing use of third-party logistics (3PL) providers by international firms seeking integrated logistics services, many global 3PL providers are forming partnerships with large corporations to take care of the latter’s logistics operations in different regions. The selection of the right 3PL provider for alliance is therefore paramount to the success of global supply chain management. This article investigates the significance of this subject and proposes a supplementary framework for evaluation of 3PL providers as global logistics partners for international firms. The framework focuses on the core competencies of 3PL providers and their abilities to attain economies of scale helping users achieve their outsourcing objectives.

Psychological Warfare and the Dahra Peasants

2020 ◽  
pp. 370-401
Author(s):  
Neil Macmaster
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Municipal Government ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Medical Teams ◽  
Colonial Warfare ◽  
Mass Evacuation

Chapter 17 examines how Opération Pilote was implemented through a case study of the military sub-secteur of Ténès. A first problem in implementing Pilote arose from the fact that there were major disagreements within the army about the project. Some commanders resisted the new methods of the psychological warfare 5th bureaux, disliked the creation of a ‘parallel’ hierarchy of political commissars, while major tensions emerged between the civil authorities, the prefect Chevrier, and the generals. A close study of Pilote in the Dahra mountains shows that the aim of ‘pacification’ of each douar by cleansing the ALN and installing harkis autodefense, schools, medical teams, and a proto-municipal government was only successful in two highly mediatized locations, the Breira mine and Bou Maad. Far more typical was the situation in the Djebel Bissa where, following large-scale sweep operations and mass arrests, the army was unable to secure the terrain, and moved on rapidly before consolidating new communal organizations. The army command, frustrated at the slowness of Servier’s ‘hearts and minds’ approach, rapidly reverted to traditional methods of colonial warfare, the creation of zones interdites, bombing of civil populations, starvation, and the forced mass evacuation of peasants into army camps. A generalized ‘Massu model’ of cutting the vital ALN dependency on urban-rural supply networks was also tried in Ténès but failed.

Integrating E-Supply Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 152-153
Author(s):  
Rana Tassabehji ◽  
James Wallace ◽  
Anastasios Tsoularis
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Adoption And Implementation ◽  
Technology Platforms ◽  
Use Of The Internet

The Internet has reached a stage of maturity where its innovative adoption and implementation can be a source of competitive advantage. Supply chains are one of the areas that has reportedly benefited greatly, achieving optimisation through low cost, high efficiency use of the Internet, almost seamlessly linking global supply chains into e-supply networks. This field is still in its academic and practical infancy, and there is a need for more empirical research to build a robust theoretical foundation, which advances our knowledge and understanding. Here, the main aims and objectives are to highlight the importance of information flows in e-supply chains/networks, and the need for their standardisation to facilitate integration, legality, security, and efficiency of operations. This chapter contributes to the field by recommending a three-stage framework enabling this process through the development of standardised Internet technology platforms (e-platforms), integration requirements and classification of information flows.

Extraction and Analysis of Spatial Correlation Micrograph Features for Traceability in Manufacturing

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Dachowicz ◽  
Mikhail Atallah ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Optical Microscopy ◽  
Spatial Correlation ◽  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Local Volume ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Surface Microstructures ◽  
Microscopy Techniques

Abstract We propose a method for ensuring traceability of metal goods in an efficient and secure manner that leverages data obtained from micrographs of a part’s surface that is instance specific (i.e., different for another instance of that same part). All stakeholders in modern supply chains face a growing need to ensure quality and trust in the goods they produce. Complex supply chains open many opportunities for counterfeiters, saboteurs, or other attackers to infiltrate supply networks, and existing methods for preventing such attacks can be costly, invasive, and ineffective. The proposed method extracts discriminatory-yet-robust intrinsic strings using features extracted from the two-point autocorrelation data of surface microstructures, as well as from local volume fraction data. By using a synthetic dataset of three-phase micrographs similar to those obtained from metal alloy systems using low-cost optical microscopy techniques, we discuss tailoring the method with respect to cost and security and discuss the performance of the method in the context of anticounterfeiting and how similar methods may be evaluated for performance. Cryptographic extensions of this methodology are also discussed.

Supply chains and supply networks: distinctions and overlaps

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 644-652 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christos Braziotis ◽  
Michael Bourlakis ◽  
Helen Rogers ◽  
James Tannock
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Supply Networks

Extraction and Analysis of Spatial Correlation Micrograph Features for Traceability in Manufacturing

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Dachowicz ◽  
Mikhail Atallah ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Optical Microscopy ◽  
Spatial Correlation ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Metal Alloy ◽  
Synthetic Dataset ◽  
Supply Networks ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Surface Microstructures ◽  
Microscopy Techniques

Abstract We propose a method for ensuring traceability of metal goods in an efficient and secure manner that leverages data obtained from micrographs of a part’s surface that is instance-specific (i.e., different for another instance of that same part). All stakeholders in modern supply chains face a growing need to ensure quality and trust in the goods they produce. Complex supply chains open many opportunities for counterfeiters, saboteurs, or other attackers to infiltrate supply networks, and existing methods for preventing such attacks can be costly, invasive, and ineffective. The proposed method extracts discriminatory-yet-robust intrinsic strings using features extracted from two-point autocorrelation data of surface microstructures. Using a synthetic dataset of three-phase micrographs similar to those obtained from metal alloy systems using low-cost optical microscopy techniques, we discuss the optimization of the method with respect to cost and security, and discuss the performance of the method in the context of anti-counterfeiting. Cryptographic extensions of this methodology are also discussed.

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