How to Estimate Strategic Partnerships on the Basis of Quality Criteria in Logistics Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Anja Kmetec ◽  
Sonja Mlaker Kač ◽  
Roman Gumzej
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
International Market ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Iso Standards ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Intelligent Logistics

Due to increasing competition in the international market, organisations are facing daily challenges. The market has become global and international, so organisations are forced to incorporate intelligent logistics systems to facilitate operations. It is important for organisations to know with whom and on what basis to enter strategic partnerships. The article discusses theories related to ISO standards that support intelligent logistics systems, and strategic partnerships. First, the authors present the links of standards that represent the tool of intelligent logistics systems. The authors describe the partnerships and indicators of logistics systems that affect the integration of the supply chain. The research is based on the analysis of supply data obtained by the authors from the purchasing system of the organisation. In conclusion, the authors present the results of the analysis.

Identifying Business-to-Business Unfair Trading Practices in the Food Supply Chain: The case of Cyprus

New Medit ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marinos Markou ◽  
Andreas Stylianou ◽  
Marianthi Giannakopoulou ◽  
Georgios Adamides
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
State Level ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Food Supply Chain ◽  
National Legislation ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
Monitoring And Enforcement

Unfair Trading Practices (UTPs) between businesses in the food supply chain have a significant impact on the various stakeholders involved, and on the environment. So far, no attempt has been made at the Member State level for the identification of UTPs in the food supply chain and their impact on the relevant stakeholders. This study drew on this gap and attempted to identify the UTPs that exist in the Cypriot food supply chain, assess their impact on the involved stakeholders and provide guidelines that will assist the transposition of EU relevant Directive to the national law. To achieve this goal, the study was based on a quantitative survey of a representative sample of businesses using a specific questionnaire. The results showed that particular UTPs do appear in the food supply chain with a different frequency, while the majority of businesses have been victims of UTPs in the last five years. Notably, the estimated cost of UTPs as a percentage of the business annual turnover is considered important ranging from 5.7% for retailers to 31.9% for farmers. Thus, most participants agree that UTPs in the agricultural food sector should be regulated by national legislation. We argue that the national legislation for UTPs should be a mix of policies that integrate private, administrative and judicial methods of monitoring and enforcement. Policy and decision makers should seek to reinforce the role and the bargaining power of small businesses in the food supply chain. This might be accomplished through the development of efficient producers’ organizations, short food supply chains, interbranch organizations and strategic partnerships.

DeepRoute+: Modeling Couriers’ Spatial-temporal Behaviors and Decision Preferences for Package Pick-up Route Prediction

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Haomin Wen ◽  
Youfang Lin ◽  
Huaiyu Wan ◽  
Shengnan Guo ◽  
Fan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Experience ◽  
Risk Evaluation ◽  
Time Estimation ◽  
Current Time ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Temporal Correlations ◽  
Current Location ◽  
Route Prediction ◽  
Intelligent Logistics ◽  
Novel Model

Over 10 billion packages are picked up every day in China. A fundamental task raised in the emerging intelligent logistics systems is the couriers’ package pick-up route prediction, which is beneficial for package dispatching, arrival-time estimation and overdue-risk evaluation, by leveraging the predicted routes to improve those downstream tasks. In the package pick-up scene, the decision-making of a courier is affected by strict spatial-temporal constraints (e.g., package location, promised pick-up time, current time, and courier’s current location). Furthermore, couriers have different decision preferences on various factors (e.g., time factor, distance factor, and balance of both), based on their own perception of the environments and work experience. In this article, we propose a novel model, named DeepRoute+, to predict couriers’ future package pick-up routes according to the couriers’ decision experience and preference learned from the historical behaviors. Specifically, DeepRoute+ consists of three layers: (1) The representation layer produces experience- and preference-aware representations for the unpicked-up packages, in which a decision preference module can dynamically adjust the importance of factors that affects the courier’s decision under the current situation. (2) The transformer encoder layer encodes the representations of packages while considering the spatial-temporal correlations among them. (3) The attention-based decoder layer uses the attention mechanism to generate the whole pick-up route recurrently. Experiments on a real-world logistics dataset demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our model.

scholarly journals Quality of service in the Heineken supply chain, México: an empirical investigation in the west of Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Omar Alejandro PÉREZ-CRUZ ◽  
José de Jesús AMEZCUA-VIVAS ◽  
Johann MEJÍAS-BRITO ◽  
Jesús Francisco TEJEDA-CASTREJÓN
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Western Region ◽  
Quality Factors ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Western Regional ◽  
The Relationship

The general objective of this work is to analyze the quality factors of the supply chain service in the western regional direction of the company Cervezas Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma - Heineken México. The analysis was framed in a model proposed by Gohain, Thambiah and Hong (2018) which measures six dimensions of service quality: the object, the process, the infrastructure, the interaction, the environment and social responsibility. A survey was applied as an instrument to collect the responses of active providers in the western region of Mexico. The results were estimated by using STATA 14 to evaluate the relationship between the proposed factors. The results highlight that the quality of the supply chain is influenced by the quality criteria of the product, the process and the interaction. In this way, this research contributes with relevant information that allows them to make quick and practical decisions to use those responsible for the company's supply chain, as well as other economic sectors.

Analysis of Influence Factors of the Supply Chain Distribution Center Location Based on the ISM Method

2012 ◽  
Vol 220-223 ◽  
pp. 323-326
Author(s):  
Jun Long Zhang ◽  
Xi Fu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Influence Factors ◽  
Distribution Center ◽  
Distribution Centers ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Center Location ◽  
Main Influence ◽  
Distribution Center Location

Distribution center plays an important role in the whole supply chain, and distribution center location decision is the core content of logistics systems analysis. Based on the analysis of the object of supply chain distribution center location, the main influence factors of the supply chain distribution center location were divided by using the ISM model, and a multi-grade hierarchical structure diagram of distribution center location was designed. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the hierarchical relationship of the main influence factors of supply chain distribution centers location is clarified.

The effect of supply chain responsiveness on customer development

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Asamoah ◽  
Dorcas Nuertey ◽  
Benjamin Agyei-Owusu ◽  
Joseph Akyeh
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
Logistics Process ◽  
Operations Systems ◽  
Customer Development

PurposeThe study examines how supply chain responsiveness (logistics process responsiveness, operations systems responsiveness and supplier network responsiveness) impacts the ability of firms to attract, satisfy and retain customers.Design/methodology/approachUsing a quantitative approach, a total of 250 questionnaires were distributed to firms in the Kumasi metropolis in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, with 100 useable responses retrieved. The effect of supply chain responsiveness on customer development was analysed using partial least squares structural equation modelling.FindingsThe findings showed that operations systems responsiveness and supplier network responsiveness drive the logistics systems responsiveness of firms as hypothesized. It was also revealed that operations systems responsiveness and logistics process responsiveness enhanced customer development, but supplier network responsiveness did not. Logistics process responsiveness additionally partially mediated the effect of operations systems responsiveness on customer development.Originality/valueTo the best of the researchers' knowledge, no previous studies have empirically examined interrelationships between the dimensions of supply chain responsiveness. Additionally, no previous study has examined the effect of supply chain responsiveness on customer development.

Supply Chain in the Cloud

2015 ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Goknur Arzu Akyuz ◽  
Mohammad Rehan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Business Process Outsourcing ◽  
Cloud Technology ◽  
Data Ownership ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Cloud Applications

Cloud concept is directly related with the beyond-ERP integrity and collaboration across a number of heterogeneous Supply Chain (SC) partner infrastructures. The technology enables partners to form a collaborative SC community without the burden of significant IT investment. Cloud applications offer significant opportunities from SC perspective, and the assimilation of the Cloud Technology is not complete yet in the Supply Chain domain. It also involves various barriers from implementation perspective, as well as the concerns related with vendor lock-in, security, reliability, privacy and data ownership. This chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of the opportunities and barriers as well as the generic treatment from SC perspective. It also highlights how the cloud technology represents a perfect fit with the ideas of ‘Collaborative Supply Chains', ‘Business Process Outsourcing' and ‘long-term strategic partnerships, which are the key themes characterizing the Supply Chains of today's era. This chapter reveals that the intersection of the topics ‘Cloud computing' and ‘Supply Chain' is a promising area for further research. Further studies in a multi-partner setting with respect to a variety of configurations, case studies and applications, as well as the security, reliability and data ownership issues are justified.

Re-thinking the role of intellectual property in nano-strategy

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Sara Giordani
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Interpretative Model

AbstractIn two past studies we observed and analyzed a group of European new and adolescent ventures, looking in particular at how they were about exploiting nanotechnology-based business opportunities, what was the role of intellectual property rights (IPRs), mainly patents, in those strategies, what was the link between patent filings in nanotechnology and exploitation patterns in the market. We formulated hypotheses and proposed an interpretative model of the strategic decisions and business choices. After a couple of years we took the opportunity to revisit some of the hypotheses and outcomes of the proposed interpretative model. If the overall framework of analysis is still, at least partly, applicable to the current situation, new trends emerge, which involve: the creation of extended portfolios of IPRs and intangible assets, which are both technology and marketing related, the entry of strategic investors and the new role of the financial and funding instruments, and the emergence of new types of consolidation patterns which are rooted in the net of strategic partnerships, collaborations and new forms of alliances in the supply chain and in the market.

Uni-Objective Negotiating Model and Tactics of Multi-Agent Supply Chain System

2011 ◽  
Vol 467-469 ◽  
pp. 608-613
Author(s):  
Chang Hui Yang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Manufacturing Enterprise ◽  
Supply Chain System ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Chain System ◽  
Purchasing Agent ◽  
Multi Agent

In the multi-agent supply chain of manufacturing enterprise, there is the problem that purchasing agent need negotiate with supplier agent about price. Based on analyzing the multi-agent collaborative framework, this paper presents a price-negotiating model, and discusses the negotiating tactics and steps between purchasing agent and supplies agent. And then an example is discussed for validating the negotiating model. This model is useful to optimize the supply chain management of manufacturing enterprise. Manufacturing enterprise and strategic partnerships may share profit and achieve joint gains based on this model.

scholarly journals HOUSEHOLD LOGISTICS IN TOURISM SUPPLY CHAIN

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-80
Author(s):  
Snežana Tadić ◽  
◽  
Miloš Veljović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Logistics Systems ◽  
Travel Agencies ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Tourism Supply Chain ◽  
Efficient Realization

The tourism supply chain (TSC) consists of different participants: suppliers, tour operators and customers; in TSC, numerous physical and information flows to end customers are realized. Efficient realization of flows is enabled by logistics systems and technologies. In this way, logistics contribute to the competitiveness of tourism products. TSC participants can be trade, production, catering, logistics companies, travel agencies, but also households, primarily in rural areas. Households can play a role at all levels of TSC (suppliers of goods, materials and services, tour operators, travel agencies, end customers) and in various forms of tourism, but they play the most important role in rural and agritourism. Logistics is important in the optimization of logistics flows of households in TSC, having in mind imperatives of quality of goods, services, or complete tourism products that they can supply customers with. Therefore, in this paper, the role, significance and basic characteristics of subsystems of household logistics in TSC are analyzed.

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