scholarly journals SPATIAL DATA SUPPLY CHAINS

2015 ◽  
Vol XL-4/W7 ◽  
pp. 41-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Varadharajulu ◽  
M. Azeem Saqiq ◽  
F. Yu ◽  
D. A. McMeekin ◽  
G. West ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
End User ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Manufacturing Supply Chain ◽  
The World

This paper describes current research into the supply of spatial data to the end user in as close to real time as possible via the World Wide Web. The Spatial Data Infrastructure paradigm has been discussed since the early 1990s. The concept has evolved significantly since then but has almost always examined data from the perspective of the supplier. It has been a supplier driven focus rather than a user driven focus. The current research being conducted is making a paradigm shift and looking at the supply of spatial data as a supply chain, similar to a manufacturing supply chain in which users play a significant part. A comprehensive consultation process took place within Australia and New Zealand incorporating a large number of stakeholders. Three research projects that have arisen from this consultation process are examining Spatial Data Supply Chains within Australia and New Zealand and are discussed within this paper.

scholarly journals INTEGRATION BETWEEN SURFACE AND SUBSURFACE SPATIAL OBJECTS FOR DEVELOPING OMAN 3D SDI BASED ON THE CITYGML STANDARD

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W16 ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
K. Al Kalbani ◽  
A. Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Infrastructure Management ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
3D City Models ◽  
Spatial Objects ◽  
The World ◽  
Geospatial Tools ◽  
City Models

Abstract. The paper investigates the capability to integrate the surface and subsurface 3D spatial objects data structure within the 3D spatial data infrastructure (3D SDI) based on the CityGML standards. In fact, a number of countries around the world have started applying the 3D city models for their planning and infrastructure management. While others are still working toward 3D SDI by using CityGML standards. Moreover, most of these initiatives focus on the surface spatial objects with less interest to model subsurface spatial objects. However, dealing with 3D SDI requires both surface and subsurface spatial objects with clear consideration on the issues and challenges in terms of the data structure. On the other hand, the study has used geospatial tools and databases such as FME, PostgreSQL-PostGIS, and 3D City Database to generate the 3D model and to test the capability for integrating the surface and subsurface 3D spatial objects data structure within the 3D SDI. This paper concludes by describing a framework that aims to integrate surface and subsurface 3D geospatial objects data structure in Oman SDI. The authors believe that there are possible solutions based on CityGML standards for surface and subsurface 3D spatial objects. Moreover, solving the issues in data structure can establish a better vision and open new avenues for the 3D SDI.

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.

scholarly journals G-NETWORKS AND THE OPTIMIZATION OF SUPPLY CHAINS

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Optimization Methods ◽  
Optimal Order ◽  
Perishable Products ◽  
Purchase Price ◽  
Order Allocation ◽  
Perishable Items ◽  
The World ◽  
Fresh Products

Supply chains are fundamental to the economy of the world and many supply chains focus on perishable items, such as food, or even clothing that is subject to a limited shelf life due to fashion and seasonable effects. G-networks have not been previously applied to this important area. Thus in this paper, we apply G-networks to supply chain systems and investigate an optimal order allocation problem for a N-node supply chain with perishable products that share the same order source of fresh products. The objective is to find an optimal order allocation strategy to minimize the purchase price per object from the perspective of the customers. An analytical solution based on G-networks with batch removal, together with optimization methods are shown to produce the desired results. The results are illustrated by a numerical example with realistic parameters.

scholarly journals Australia’s Modern Slavery Act and COVID-19: a get out of jail free card?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-230
Author(s):  
Fiona McGaughey
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Modern Slavery ◽  
The World ◽  
Assessment Training

The COVID-19 pandemic increased modern slavery risk around the world, including in the operations and supply chains of Australian businesses. This article thematically analyses a sample of available business statements under Australia’s Modern Slavery Act to assess how they engaged with modern slavery risks due to COVID-19. Overall, the statements acknowledged that COVID-19 had increased risks through rapidly altered supply chain profiles, urgent demand for items such as PPE, and yet there were widespread reports of reduced capacity to fully execute planned modern slavery risk assessment, training, and audit activities.

scholarly journals Playing with data and its consequences

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miren Gutiérrez ◽  
Stefania Milan
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Communicative Practices ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Critical Data ◽  
Data Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

The fundamental paradigm shift brought about by datafication alters how people participate as citizens on a daily basis. “Big data” has come to constitute a new terrain of engagement, which brings organized collective action, communicative practices and data infrastructure into a fruitful dialogue. While scholarship is progressively acknowledging the emergence of bottom-up data practices, to date no research has explored the influence of these practices on the activists themselves. Leveraging the disciplines of critical data and social movement studies, this paper explores “proactive data activism”, using, producing and/or appropriating data for social change, and examines its biographical, political, tactical and epistemological consequences. Approaching engagement with data as practice, this study focuses on the social contexts in which data are produced, consumed and circulated, and analyzes how tactics, skills and emotions of individuals evolve in interplay with data. Through content and co-occurrence analysis of semi-structured practitioner interviews (N=20), the article shows how the employment of data and data infrastructure in activism fundamentally transforms the way activists go about changing the world.

Leverage risks for supply chain robustness against corruption

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Liu ◽  
Tiru Arthanari ◽  
Yangyan Shi
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
System Dynamics Model ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Supply Chain Risks ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Supply Chain Robustness

PurposeThis paper examines the establishment of supply chain robustness against corruption by utilizing risk interactions.Design/methodology/approachBased on empirical results from the New Zealand dairy industry, a system dynamics model is established to explore the underlying relationships among variables.FindingsThe results show that although certain supply chain risks seem unrelated to corruption, their mitigation would help mitigate the impact of corruption due to risk interactions; and mitigation of some of the risks is more effective in mitigating the impact of corruption. Leverage risks have been defined and identified in this research, which expands the extant knowledge in reducing the impact of corruption on supply chains.Originality/valueThe research illustrates how the impact of corruption can be studied in an integrated way with dairy supply chain SD analysis. It is a pioneering study to mitigate the impact of corruption on supply chains from supply chain robustness.

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

2019 ◽  
pp. 989-1002 ◽  
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 chapter 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.

scholarly journals Chain coordinators’ strategic leadership and coordination effectiveness

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 515-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pervaiz Akhtar ◽  
Sushil Kaur ◽  
Khanyapuss Punjaisri
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Supply Chain Coordination ◽  
Strategic Leadership ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Food Supply Chains ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose Although suitable leadership is crucial for chain coordinators (chief executive officers (CEOs), managing directors and heads of departments) to achieve the effectiveness of supply chain coordination (operational and social performances contributing to financial performance), the potential caveats in New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains are the lack of theoretical as well as empirical investigations that scrutinize the linkages between leadership styles, their interactions and the effectiveness of supply chain coordination. The purpose of this study is therefore to address the above knowledge gap. Design/methodology/approach Structural equation modelling and interaction effects are applied to the data collected from chain coordinators working in the selected New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains (dairy, meat, fruits and vegetables). Findings The results indicate that participative leadership is more strongly correlated with the effectiveness of supply chain coordination than directive leadership. The directive leadership is also significant, which leads towards the adoption of strategic leadership. Interaction effects further conclude that companies perform better when their chain coordinators apply strategic leadership practices. Moreover, operational (service quality and product quality) and social (trust in and satisfaction with supply chain partners) performances are the key determinants of financial performance (increased sales, profit and market share). Practical implications The results enhance the understanding of chain coordinators and help them to achieve coordination effectiveness among agri-food supply chain partners. Therefore, the study provides practical implications linked with contemporary international agri-food supply chains. Originality/value This study provides in-depth analysis to develop a comprehensive theoretical framework, which helps to confirm the complicated linkages between the underlying constructs, with the specific characteristics of New Zealand-Euro agri-food supply chains. Consequently, the results also clarify the earlier ambiguous findings from other industries and countries.

Coopetition in Supply Chains

2012 ◽  
pp. 76-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lincoln C. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Information Flow ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
New Markets ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Cooperative Relationships

Supply chain management has been increasingly seen as a strategic tool to improve the competitiveness of companies. Coopetition, the mingling of competitive and cooperative relationships, has been utilised by New Zealand companies in the horticulture industry to help break into and develop new markets. Using a case study various elements of the supply chain are examined from both strategic and operational perspectives for this group of companies and their customers and suppliers. The connections to the customer are shown to be enhanced through careful implementation, as the group of companies act to adjust their entire supply chains to make them increasingly customer-orientated. Significant benefits that are shown to accrue include improved information flow, increased ability to supply, and flexibility to meet customer requirements.

Adoption of RFID in Supply Chains

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin Boo Soon ◽  
Jairo A. Gutiérrez
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Radio Frequency ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Radio Frequency Identification ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Disruptive Technology ◽  
Adoption Rate ◽  
Frequency Identification ◽  
Rate Case

Recognizing radio frequency identification (RFID) as a disruptive technology unearths interesting facts that could help managers decide how to approach their RFID projects. RFID for the supply chain (RFID/SC) has attracted global attention and many firms are already using RFID in their business processes. It was found that the uptake of RFID in New Zealand supply chains has been slow. Following on our previous work that used the motivation/ability framework to describe RFID/SC, this paper looks at the motivation and ability of New Zealand supply chains to explain the slow adoption rate. Case studies are used to illustrate the principles of the motivation/ability framework. The objectives of this paper are: (1) to equip managers with the knowledge of disruptive technology in the context of RFID/SC, (2) to highlight the need to assess an organization’s motivation and ability for adopting RFID/SC, and (3) to propose actions industry can take in the adoption of RFID/SC.

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