Supply Chain Management under Mass Customization

2012 ◽  
Vol 616-618 ◽  
pp. 2044-2047 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Liu

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.

Author(s):  
Ibibia K. Dabipi ◽  
Judy A. Perkins ◽  
Tierney Moore

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.


Author(s):  
Dedet Deperiky ◽  
Santosa Santosa ◽  
Rika Ampuh Hadiguna ◽  
Nofialdi Nofialdi

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.


Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil

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.


2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Lefebvre ◽  
Luc Cassivi ◽  
Louis Lefebvre ◽  
Pierre-Majorique Léger ◽  
Pierre Hadaya

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.


Author(s):  
Iwan Vanany ◽  
Ahmad Syamil

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.


Author(s):  
Dale S. Rogers ◽  
Rudolf Leuschner ◽  
Thomas Y. Choi

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.


Author(s):  
Abid Haleem ◽  
Mohd Sufiyan

There is a need to understand food supply chain management (FSCM) with the help of a process-oriented comprehensive definition and consider complex tasks involved therein. The study identifies FSCM and supply chain management’s basic definitions and focuses on a systematic literature review. None of the identified previously proposed definitions of FSCM has comprehensively covered all the significant operational issues in FSCM. Thus, the study further undertook the mapping of identified definitions with six key focusses in FSCM identified through the literature survey. This study systematically proposes a comprehensive definition of FSCM. Findings suggested that “Quality management” includes safety and traceability of the food product and “Sustainable Management,” including proper waste management as the most critical focus in FSCM. This study proposes a comprehensive FSCM definition comprising key managerial that focuses on the food supply chain (FSC). The literature survey is done with 160 selected papers and has subjectivity in mapping and analysis. This definition seems essential for theory building, as none of the available definitions has included all the dominant characteristics of FSCM. A comprehensive definition of FSCM would act as a reference point for supply chain-based research on the food sector.


Author(s):  
Jairo R. Montoya-Torres

Part of the planning process in supply chain management consists of finding the best possible configuration, including the definition of product flow from plants to clients (markets) via a set of warehouses. Defining the location of such warehouses is also part of the decision-making problem. This problem is known in the literature as the two-echelon uncapacitated facility location problem (TUFLP) and is known to be NP-hard. This chapter aims at solving this problem using optimization methods baesd on approximate algorithms. Their performance is analyzed using well-known date sets from the academic literature.


1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Lambert ◽  
Martha C. Cooper ◽  
Janus D. Pagh

In 1998, the Council of Logistics Management modified its definition of logistics to indicate that logistics is a subset of supply chain management and that the two terms are not synonymous. Now that this difference has been recognized by the premier logistics professional organization, the challenge is to determine how to successfully implement supply chain management. This paper concentrates on operationalizing the supply chain management framework suggested in a 1997 article. Case studies conducted at several companies and involving multiple members of supply chains are used to illustrate the concepts described.


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