Designing And Controlling The Outsourced Supply Chain

Author : Andy a. Tsay
Publisher : Now Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781601988447
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing and Controlling the Outsourced Supply Chain written by Andy a. Tsay and published by Now Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All organizations outsource. They differ only in the scope and extent of what they procure as goods and services from outside entities. These choices drive an organization's financial performance and long-term competitive viability, and establish the tenor of day-to-day operations. Outsourcing can solve many problems, but is also fraught with hidden costs and risks. This monograph examines outsourcing from a lifecycle perspective. This means tracing the full arc from the germination of the idea to outsource, to the assessment of options, to the installation of control mechanisms, to grappling with conflicts that inevitably arise over time, all the way to the sunset of the chosen strategy. The analysis is highly attentive to the details of operational execution, especially regarding how human resources participate in these decision processes and are impacted by the choices made.

Author : Michael J. Mol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107321042
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outsourcing written by Michael J. Mol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing has become one of the key restructuring tools for companies seeking to boost their growth and business performance. As the outsourcing phenomenon has mushroomed, so a range of academic studies have sought to define and describe a unifying theoretical model. Outsourcing: Design, Process and Performance draws upon managerial, economic, sociological, historical and psychological perspectives to bring about an understanding of how outsourcing design and the outsourcing process feed into the performance of firms. Blending empirical insights from a range of international cases and large-scale statistical tests with existing theoretical perspectives, the author argues that a negative curvilinear relationship exists between outsourcing and firm performance. A critical analysis of current outsourcing strategies, together with a discussion of future trends, offers a new agenda for academic researchers and business managers alike.

Author : David Simchi-Levi
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780072492569
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing and Managing the Supply Chain written by David Simchi-Levi and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Supply Chain Management - Logistics Network Configuration - Inventory Management and Risk Pooling - The Value of Information - Supply chain integration - Strategic Alliances - Procurement and outsourcing strategies - International Issues in Supply Chain Management - Coordinated Product and Supply Chain Design - Customer Value and Supply Chain Management - Information technology for supply chain management - Decision-support systems for supply chain management.

Author : Marc J. Schniederjans
Publisher : FT Press
ISBN 13 : 0133091759
Total Pages : 2685 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supply Chain Design (Collection) written by Marc J. Schniederjans and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-02 with total page 2685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new collection of world-class supply chain design solutions… 3 authoritative books, now in a convenient e-format, at a great price! 3 authoritative eBooks deliver state-of-the-art guidance for designing and optimizing highly competitive global supply chains! This unique 3 eBook package will help you design state-of-the-art supply chains that deliver rapid, quantifiable, and sustainable competitive advantage. The Encyclopedia of Operations Management is the perfect single-volume "field manual" for every supply chain or operations management practitioner and student. Nearly 1,500 well-organized, up-to-date definitions cover every facet of supply chain design, planning, management, and optimization. Next, in Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle, Marc J. Schniederjans and Stephen B. LeGrand show how to optimize supply chains throughout their entire lifecycle: creation, growth, maturity, and decline! Reflecting up-to-the-minute "in-the-trenches" experience and pioneering research, this book illuminates the complex transformational processes associated with managing complex supply chains that incorporate multiple products and services within ever-changing networks. They walk you through: starting, creating, and building new supply chains; realigning them for growth; adjusting to dynamic change, readjusting networks, building flexibility, and managing new risks. Next, they offer practical, realistic guidance for realigning "mature" supply chains, innovating, controlling costs; and smoothly managing declining demand. Throughout, they offer invaluable insights, tools, and examples for negotiation, performance measurement, anticipating change, improving agility, meeting commitments to social responsibility and the law; and more. Finally, in Supply Chain Network Design, four leading IBM and Northwestern University experts show how to use strategic supply chain network design to achieve dramatic new savings. They integrate rigorous principles and practical applications to help you select the right number, location, territory, and size of warehouses, plants, and production lines; and optimize the flow of all products through even the most complex global supply chain. You’ll find better ways to decide what (and where) to manufacture internally; and which products to outsource (and to whom). You’ll get help managing cost vs. service-level tradeoffs; using analytics to improve decision-making; and re-optimizing regularly for even more savings. Whatever your role in supply chain design, this collection will help you systematically optimize performance, customer value, and profitability. From world-renowned supply chain experts Arthur V. Hill, Marc J. Schniederjans, Stephen B. LeGrand, Michael Watson, Sara Lewis, Peter Cacioppi, and Jay Jayaraman

Author : Petri Helo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331940430X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing and Managing Industrial Product-Service Systems written by Petri Helo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the issues and complexities of industrial services supply chain management. It analyzes how the transition from products to services can be managed, and how supply chains can be adjusted to reflect this new status quo. The book begins with chapters examining product-service systems structures and servitization – the services infusion process. Next, it presents industrial services as marketing and operations strategy. The focus shifts to service delivery, and this chapter discusses how the actual operations take place. This is followed by an examination of the role of technology and how connected assets are utilized by product vendors in value-creation. The book analyzes the transition from ownership to subscriptions in the pricing decisions chapter. Then the value chain effects chapter offers an overview of the mechanisms through which industrial companies are shortening the distance to end-users and aim for a better position in the value chain. Finally the conclusion addresses theoretical and empirical implications in the industrial services supply chain management.

Author : James B. Ayers
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1420000195
Total Pages : 748 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Supply Chain Management Work written by James B. Ayers and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2001-12-13 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any supply chain improvement project, even if well conceived, has a good chance of failing, unless the accompanying information technology enables the design. Being prepared, understanding the risks and how to reduce them, will give you the edge you need. Combining a technology focus with practical advice, Making Supply Chain Management Work: Desig

Author : Tim Brandl
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 365841359X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Managing Contract Manufacturing Relationships written by Tim Brandl and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract manufacturing has become a cornerstone of global supply chains since the first wave of production outsourcing. Since then, brand-leading companies have focused their supply chains on the end consumer, while contract manufacturers have overtaken brand-leaders in various key areas. As a result, contract manufacturers are becoming strategic partners in the implementation of product designs, which requires dedicated relationship management to enable manufacturing coordination across company boundaries. This book addresses the relationship management of contract manufacturing relationships through the client's use of management practices. It adopts an eclectic transaction cost economics and relationship velocity perspective. To this end, applied management practices, relationship dynamics, and the targeted selection and adjustment of management practices are examined. The findings indicate the need for systematic alignment of client companies and contract manufacturers at commercial and social relationship levels. Furthermore, relationship dynamics require a regular assessment of the commercial and social fit. The findings contribute to the understanding of contract manufacturing relationships in literature and include recommendations for practical application.

Author : Charles H. Fine
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458716384
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clockspeed written by Charles H. Fine and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In business today, all advantage is temporary. In order to survive-let alone thrive-companies must be able to anticipate and adapt to change, or face rapid, brutal extinction. In Clock speed, Charles Fine draws on a decades worth of research at M.I.T.s Sloan School of Management to introduce a new vocabulary for understanding the forces of competition and making strategic decisions that will determine the destiny of your company, as well as your industry. Taking inspiration from the world of biology, Fine argues that each industry has its own evolutionary life cycle (or ''clock speed''), measured by the rate at which it introduces new products, processes, and organizational structures. Just as geneticists study the fruit fly to gain insight into the evolutionary paths of all animals, managers in any industry can learn from the industrial fruit flies-such as Internet services, personal computers, and multimedia entertainment-which evolve through new generations at breakneck speed. Applying the lessons of the fruit flies to industries as diverse as bicycles, pharmaceuticals, and semiconductors, Fine illustrates how competitive advantage is lost or gained by how well a company manages dynamic web of relationships that run throughout its chain of suppliers, distributors, and alliance partners. Packed with revolutionary concepts and tools to help managers make key strategic decisions that affect current and future performance, Clock speed shows, as no other book before it, how the ultimate core competency is mastering the art of supply chain design, carefully choosing which components and capabilities to keep in-house and which to purchase from outside.

Author : Manish Govil
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0122941519
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supply Chain Design and Management written by Manish Govil and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2002-01-14 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supply Chain Design and Management introduces the concept of a sharing mechanism that will ensure the sustainability of a supply chain by fair distribution of costs and benefits. This book provides a holistic view of the supply chain from product development, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and storage, to retailing. The presentation of the enabling technologies in supply chain management will help companies better understand their options. § Provides a step-by-step framework for designing supply chains at the strategic level § Written for those who deal with the supply chains on a day-to-day basis as well as those new to the field § Provides a synthesis of best practices for managing supply chains at the tactical level § Provides a review of the state-of-the-art in enabling information technologies and business applications § Explains the concepts with examples from the industry and simple mathematical formulations § Is accessible to graduate students for an excellent understanding of how supply chains work and can join the industry armed with the knowledge of the workings of supply chains

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Publisher : Bookboon
ISBN 13 : 8776817989
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management written by and published by Bookboon. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: