Teaching Supply Chain Management Using an Innovative Practical Game

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Bill Of Materials ◽  
Competitive Game ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This paper presents a new practical game which helps undergraduate students to understand how the concept of supply chain management (SCM) works. The game uses a simple supply chain structure incorporating three entities of the supply chain: supplier, plant, and customer. The game employs a set of toy building blocks such as LEGO® blocks and has the rules of the game, responsibility of each player, product descriptions and bill of materials. This competitive game is used supply chain cost as the measuring to determine the winner team of the game and the Bloom's taxonomy as guidelines to develop the assessment testing based on the learning objectives of courses. This proposed board game has been tested by many undergraduate students who are taking SCM and Logistics Management courses. The results show that the students who played the game reached the higher scores of assessment testing than students who didn't play the game. Furthermore, most students have also positive view about this game.

Teaching Supply Chain Management Using an Innovative Practical Game

2020 ◽  
pp. 837-856
Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Bill Of Materials ◽  
Competitive Game ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Rules Of The Game

This paper presents a new practical game which helps undergraduate students to understand how the concept of supply chain management (SCM) works. The game uses a simple supply chain structure incorporating three entities of the supply chain: supplier, plant, and customer. The game employs a set of toy building blocks such as LEGO® blocks and has the rules of the game, responsibility of each player, product descriptions and bill of materials. This competitive game is used supply chain cost as the measuring to determine the winner team of the game and the Bloom's taxonomy as guidelines to develop the assessment testing based on the learning objectives of courses. This proposed board game has been tested by many undergraduate students who are taking SCM and Logistics Management courses. The results show that the students who played the game reached the higher scores of assessment testing than students who didn't play the game. Furthermore, most students have also positive view about this game.

Real World Applications

2016 ◽  
pp. 113-132
Author(s):  
Ibibia K. Dabipi ◽  
Judy A. Perkins ◽  
Tierney Moore
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Real World ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Total Asset ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
End To End ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Over the years the supply chain industry has been transforming to improve the end-to-end (production to delivery) process. Supply chain management (SCM) allows various industries to oversee and better handle how their product is manufactured and delivered. It allows them to track and identify the location of the product and to be more efficient in delivery. Integrating total asset visibility (TAV) technology into the supply chain structure can provide excellent visibility of a product. This kind of visibility complemented with various packaging schemes can assist in accommodating optimization strategies for visualizing the movement of a product throughout the entire supply chain pipeline. The chapter will define SCM, discuss TAV, review how transportation as well as optimization impacts SCM and TAV, and examine the role of packaging in the context of SCM and TAV.

scholarly journals Supply Chain Management Agroindustri : Sebuah Literature Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Dedet Deperiky ◽  
Santosa Santosa ◽  
Rika Ampuh Hadiguna ◽  
Nofialdi Nofialdi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
External Relations ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Agroindustry needs further attention from the relationship between supply chain actors to improve efficiency in terms of partnerships and the application of modern technology today. Supply chain management in agroindustry emphasizes a management approach to a network of facilities and distribution channels that includes procurement of materials, production, and delivery of agroindustry products to end consumers. The research methodology used is the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method, which is the literature review method that identifies, evaluates, and interprets all findings on a research topic, to answer research questions. The results of the study imply that in order to manage the agroindustry supply chain the entire supply chain structure must be well understood by focusing more on the quality of external relations with supply chain actors and who focus actor on partnership, trust and sustainability in conducting agroindustry supply chain activities. Agroindustry managers must investigate why they must manage, what must be managed and how to manage agroindustry supply chains. To explore the agroindustry supply chain that a manager must integrated the system, examine the nature, linkages and dependencies between business operations in the agroindustry supply chain. Suggestions from researchers that this four-step approach to meeting sustainability must be implemented in the agroindustry supply chain, and optimalized or later all organizations will adopt the SCM concept in achieving competitive advantage.

Supply chain management, electronic collaboration tools and organizational innovativeness

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Lefebvre ◽  
Luc Cassivi ◽  
Louis Lefebvre ◽  
Pierre-Majorique Léger ◽  
Pierre Hadaya
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Electronic Mail ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Electronic Collaboration ◽  
Collaboration Tools ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
The Impact

The paper focuses on three critical but under-investigated issues for supply chain management: (i) the inherent dynamics of a multi-layered supply chain, (ii) the deployment, use and relative efficiency of e-collaboration tools within the supply chain, and (iii) the impact of these tools on the innovativeness of individual firms acting at different layers of the supply chain. The research design covers multiple layers of one supply chain and provides empirical evidence obtained from a multiplecase study and an electronic mail survey. Results point to the intrinsic relationships between supply chain structure and the deployment of e-collaboration tools. Further, results indicate that the level of perceived efficiency of e-collaboration tools is lower at the upstream end of the supply chain and that supply chain execution (SCE) e-collaboration tools are more efficient than the supply chain planning (SCP) tools. The overall findings also suggest that e-collaboration tools can improve supply chain members' ability to innovate in terms of processes and relationships but not yet in terms of products.

Supply Chain Financing: Moving beyond Source, Make, and Deliver

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale S. Rogers ◽  
Rudolf Leuschner ◽  
Thomas Y. Choi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Financial Firms ◽  
Corporate Executives ◽  
Supply Chain Finance ◽  
Supply Chain Financing ◽  
Supply Chain Structure

Supply chain management has been focused on how to source, make, and deliver products throughout the world. This chapter proposes the addition of one more function to that list—to fund. As a result of technology supporting financial firms, such as banks and financial technology firms, the supply chain has become the least expensive source of capital available to a firm. Corporate executives increasingly rely on the supply chain as a source of capital. A typical supply chain has three major flows: product, information, and finances. These three flows can vary in importance depending on the environment and supply chain structure. Most of the supply chain management literature focuses on products and information flows and pays minimal attention to the financial side of supply chain management. This chapter views supply chain financing as a bigger concept than the concept commonly known as supply chain finance. Supply chain financing focuses on how to use the supply chain to fund the organization and how to use the organization to fund the supply chain. The goal of supply chain financing is to ensure liquidity within supply chains by helping the buyer and supplier organizations conserve their own capital by injecting liquidity from sources that previously were not known or available.

Supply Chain Management under Mass Customization

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 2044-2047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Mass Customization ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Network Structures ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Open Network ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Definition Of

Traditional supply chain is established on mass production while supply chain under mass customization is established on mass customization. In the paper, Definition of Supply Chain Management is introduced; Comparison between Traditional Supply Chain and Supply Chain under Mass Customization, State of the field are all illustrated. Under mass customization, in order to adapt to customer driving manufacturing and the demands of enterprise alliance, manufacturers and major enterprises will directly contact with customers to weaken or even eliminate the function of distributors and retail dealers, which will lead to the transformation of the supply chain structure to open network structures made up of suppliers, manufacturers, core enterprises and customers.

A Flexible Supply Chain Management Game

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 461-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patra Shovityakool ◽  
Piyachat Jittam ◽  
Namkang Sriwattanarothai ◽  
Parames Laosinchai
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Inventory Management ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Educational Games ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Management Game ◽  
Business World ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Real World Situation

Background. Educational games are widely used in business classes in general, and supply chain management (SCM) classes in particular. These games are designed to familiarize students with the real business world. Most SCM games are ready-made, with pre-set learning objectives focusing on a certain module in a supply chain. Intervention. This article presents the new spreadsheet-based Flexible Supply Chain Management Game (FSCMG) and the findings of its pilot study. FSCMG’s features are transparent to instructors and students alike. It is easily modifiable to suit an instructor’s learning objectives. Method. Six groups of undergraduate students took turns playing three modules, namely a wholesaler, manufacturer, and supplier. There were two groups per module to represent two supply chains. The students’ spreadsheets are analyzed and presented. Results. Students’ spreadsheets revealed that they were able to employ SCM conceptual understanding in FSCMG, particularly pricing strategy, inventory management, forecasting, and the relationships within a supply chain. Conclusion. FSCGM helped the students apply their in-class knowledge in a real-world situation and be well prepared for their future careers where an extensive understanding is required.

Complementary theories to supply chain management revisited – from borrowing theories to theorizing

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 574-586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Árni Halldórsson ◽  
Juliana Hsuan ◽  
Herbert Kotzab
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Theory Development ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Scholarship ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Theory Application

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to identify ways by which the theorizing of supply chain management (SCM) takes place, with particular attention to complementary theories. SCM suffers as well as benefits from a “conceptual slack”. Design/methodology/approach – The nature of SCM is discussed, and the role and relevance of theorizing is addressed by using key characteristics of “academic scholarship” based on a literature review of SCM and evaluation of application of theory and theory development. Findings – The integrative and multi-layered nature of SCM sets the conditions for “theorizing SCM” that can take place through various forms: theory application, new theoretical combinations and sensitivity to managerial practice. It is pivotal that future research explore further the performative potential of SCM. Research limitations/implications – Research with focus on theory development or using complementary theories to advancing understanding of SCM can benefit from the five building blocks of theorizing SCM proposed in the paper. Practical implications – Theoretical principles in SCM are not only used to describe practical problems but also to “produce the world”; supply chains can be seen as organizational units that act or consummate an action that delivers a particular performance. Originality/value – This paper portrays SCM sensitivity to managerial challenges by moving from borrowing to a more bilateral view on theorizing of SCM, reflecting the nature of SCM.

scholarly journals ENHANCING ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN THE DAIRY INDUSTRY: SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT APPROACH

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Charles Maina ◽  
Prof, Benard K. Njehia ◽  
Dr Bett Kiprotich Eric
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Dairy Industry ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Chain Management

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of supply chain management practices on the organizational performance underpinned on resource-based view theory (RBV). Methodology: The study adopts descriptive and explanatory research design with purposive sampling and quantitative methods to collect primary data through crossed ended questionnaires from 109 dairy co-operatives in Kenya. Data collected was organized and cleaned using both excel and statistical package for social scientist (SPSS). Additionally, partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) techniques were used to analyze data in SmartPLS version 3.2 software, and the results for both descriptive and inferential were presented in tables. Results: The result revealed that SCMPs has a positive and significant impact on Market performance (β=0.558), operational performance (β=0.371) and customer satisfaction (β=0.543). These results reveal that SCM practices are associated with high levels of organizational performance. Thus, SCM practices explain and predict the organizational performance of the dairy industry in Kenya.  Unique contribution to theory, practice and policy: The study provides evidence of the building blocks of supply chain management practices and a framework of their implementation for performance improvement to the managers in the dairy industry.  Theoretically, the study contributes to the development and advancement of the theory of supply chain management (SCM) as well as validation of the Resource-based View (RBV). Policy-wise, the study provides directions for coming up with policies geared towards performance improvements in the dairy industry.

scholarly journals Logística Oportunidades y Estrategias para el desarrollo de una Red Logística Fronteriza Norte en Ecuador

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Dorian Castillo Ledesma
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Chain Structure ◽  
Logistics Network ◽  
Survival Factor ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Northern Border ◽  
Supply Chain Structure ◽  
Rules Of The Game ◽  
The Ideal

Many opportunities have been missed, such as taking advantage of available resources or making strategic investments in considerably less amounts than those arranged in crazy studies instead of promoting truly relevant projects,so this situation will continue to be a drag on our country and will keep us relegated from a leading role wich is accompanied by long-term benefits. If we do not take an accurate and timely turn towards a fixed north, by defining and implementing policies and enough resources in logistics, we will continue to be the buyers of services and openning ways for other countries to continue establishing the rules of the game, prices, conditions and restrictions within the area considered since three decades (and for the future) in the cornerstone and countries' survival factor: a strong Supply Chain structure. The so-called “Northern Border Logistics Network” in Ecuador, has the ideal characteristics to connect at least 3 continental regions in the southern hemisphere, becoming a real alternative to fully explore other commercial and tourist benefits of the region, also linking 4 countries in South America indeed. Let's analyze this case, from which interesting conclusions will be gotten.

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