Sourcing and Supply
Effective Global Sourcing and Supply for Superior Results
... global sourcing level, have achieved the cross-locational integration that firms operating at the fourth level have also ...the sourcing of items or services to fulfill continuous demand or aftermarket ...
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Sourcing in procurement and supply
... first sourcing activities under this new approach was to carry out the world’s largest tender for the supply of mosquito nets, designed to produce estimated savings of $140 million for GFATM over two ...new ...
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Ordering policies for a dual sourcing supply chain with disruption risks
... In this paper, we focus mainly on the disruption risks of a dual sourcing supply chain. More specifically, generic newsvendor stochastic ordering models for risk-neutral and risk-averse decision-makers are ...
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Social sustainability in apparel supply chains : the role of the sourcing intermediary in a developing country
... apparel sourcing intermediary and its supplier base, deviating full focus on public disclosure to external stakeholders such as end-consumers, media, or non-governmental ...increased, supply chain actors ...
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An empirical investigation of the impact of strategic sourcing and flexibility on firm's supply chain agility
... and supply chain executives have been shown to be more conversant with external aspects and demands on manufacturing situations than manufacturing managers, and manufacturing executives are generally aware of ...
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The contribution of global sourcing to the economic performance of organizations: Analysis of the points of view of the supply chain participants
... Companies C and K specialize in the textile sector. From the interviews, we found that they have the same procedure to limit the risks of poor quality: pre-production samples are taken and then analysed before a quality ...
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The role of sourcing agents in global apparel supply chains: an exploratory study
... a sourcing agent, stated that it is important to handle more than a single category of products as well as invest in different machinery to better serve ...that sourcing agents must not only be able to find ...
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Coalition Formation for Sourcing Contract Design with Cooperative Replenishment in Supply Networks
... The experimental study highlighted the importance of horizontal collaboration in the firms' pursuit of profit growth. It also underlined the broad range of cooperation opportunities in the supply chain, not only ...
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Network, Global Sourcing, Lean Supply Chain
... move sourcing and manufacturing to Low Cost Countries ...the supply chain ...global supply chain is an element of growing importance in creating and sustaining the competitive ...of supply ...
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Building up Resilience in a Pharmaceutical Supply Chain through Inventory, Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity
... Dual Sourcing and Agility ...to supply chain disruption ...Dual Sourcing and Agility Capac- ...Dual Sourcing and Agility ...Dual Sourcing and Agility Capacity decisions ...Dual ...
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Sourcing Risk Detection and Prediction with Online Public Data: An Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Supply Chain Risk Management.
... production cost”, which usually represents lost profit, may have a positive impact on the supply chain. If the increase in production cost is caused by an increase in labor cost, it may be a sign of fewer ...
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Supply Risk in a Multiple-sourcing Supply System.
... Compared with multiple-sourcing, single-unreliable-supplier models are discussed more extensively in the literature. They mainly focus on determining the optimal order policy, and provide insights into the ...
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Optimization of Sourcing Decisions in Supply Chains
... typical supply chain for a consumer product, even when consumer demand does not seem to vary much over time, there is a significant variance in the retailer’s orders to the ...greater. Sourcing decisions ...
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Integrated logistics and supply chain management, global sourcing and sustainable competitive advantage
... The empirical research shows that (1) there exists a significant positive relationship between information & planning formality and strategic planning; (2) strat[r] ...
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Sourcing illegal drugs as a hidden older user: the ideal of ‘social supply’
... commercial supply’ to be ...of supply and acknowledging the lesser culpability of social suppliers as compared to, for instance, large scale commercial ...non-predatory supply activities for the ...
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Your Offshore Sourcing and Recruiting Team
... The Philippines is also the world’s third largest English-speaking nation outside the United States and the United Kingdom. Philippine universities each year graduate over 400,000 highly skilled and educated workers ...
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Assessing the value of agent certification in global sourcing: An exploratory study in apparel sourcing
... and sourcing is a major part of all the major ...apparel sourcing is done from the Caribbean Basin, China, Hong Kong, South Korea and ...apparel supply chain to Mexico (Gereffi, 2000; Gereffi & ...
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Global Sourcing of a Complex Good
... to supply skilled labor input and contracts one supplier for unskilled labor input; this supply contract is incomplete if the supplier comes from the South so that after the production, there is no third ...
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SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DOCTORAL PROGRAMS. LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT and OPERATIONS AND SOURCING MANAGEMENT
... of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Decision Sciences Institute, Production and Operations Management Society, Institute for Operations Re- search and Management Science, Academy of Management, Academy of ...
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Achieving excellence in global sourcing
... global sourcing companies is the importance of qualified per- ...global sourcing success was access to personnel with the right knowledge, skills and ...global sourcing success. The knowledge and ...
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