Manus Rungtusanatham

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of internal practices on time-related performance of 164 plants. And they found that when an organization interacts with suppliers and with customers on quality management issues, the organization would improve its time performances indirectly as a result of complete mediation by internal practices for: quality management; low management; inter-unit coordination; and vertical coordination.

TL;DR: A special issue on Coordinating Product Design, Process Design, and Supply Chain Design Decisions was published in 2003 to bring awareness to and to spur scholarly research into this topic as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: An in‐depth case study involving a manufacturing plant and its supply chain suggests that a number of approaches typically used to increase volume flexibility, actually negatively affect mix flexibility and vice versa.

TL;DR: Part B completes the special issue by identifying future research opportunities, beyond those highlighted within the seven papers that form Part A and Part B of this special issue on Coordinating product design, process design, and supply chain design decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss two related tasks for current understanding augmentation in the retail industry implementation of vendor-owned inventory management (VOIM) arrangements: shrink responsibility, timeliness of information release, and relevant data visibility.