Value chain

About: Value chain is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 7206 publications have been published within this topic receiving 224183 citations.

Strategic supply chain framework for the automotive industry.

Abstract: st century has led to companies facing issues ranging from globalisation, economic uncertainty to new technologies and increasing consumer demands. In the automobile industry, as manufacturers design and build vehicles globally, their supply chains become increasingly complex with challenges that often stand in the way of profitability and higher shareholder value such as long order-to-delivery lead times, unreliable production schedules, excess inventory across the supply chain, lengthy demand planning cycles and lack of visibility of suppliers. The effect of the global economic meltdown increased the pressure on automotive executives to make right decisions about their supply chain for better performance. In a highly challenging and competitive environment such as today, where supply chain is a popular tool for improving the organisational competitiveness, an efficient and effective supply chain strategy is a must for automotive manufacturers and their component manufacturers so as to meet changing consumer demands. The paper explores the concept of lean and agility as generic supply chain strategies and presents a strategic supply chain framework for the automobile industry as a possible strategy to respond to changing consumer demand.

The effect of supply chain integration on information sharing: Enhancing the supply chain performance

Abstract: This paper addresses the relation of supply chain integration with manufacturing industries. Here, the main objective is to analyze that the supply chain integration is related to manufacturing industries in what all aspects. Supply chain management is mainly contributed to improve the organizational competitiveness in the twenty-first century. As it is involving in all of the activities in industrial organizations, it is said that there is a big relationship between supply chain management and manufacturing industries. Supply chain management is meant to define the quality of the products and thereby the customer satisfaction in manufacturing industry. Therefore this paper concentrates on providing guidelines and references for manufacturing engineers who are interested in supply chain integration.

Environmental sustainability: a value cycle research agenda

Abstract: This article considers how adopting an environmentally sustainable agenda impacts on the management of an organisation's supply chain and highlights areas for future research. The article argues that the current fragmented/functional approach to sustainability and the conceptualisation of the supply chain as a bounded unidirectional flow of value does not provide the holistic approach that is required to meet the sustainability needs of tomorrow's business. A value cycle paradigm that facilitates the development of a multi-disciplinary research approach is developed and used to examine the extant literature for the principal issues that will need to be addressed. Future research concerned with developing environmentally sustainable business models must focus on the identification and management of the information flows at the interfaces between the customer, marketing, design, operations, logistics and external agents in the supply network. New networks required to support more sustainable forms of consum...

A SCOR Reference Model of the Supply Chain Management System in an Enterprise

Abstract: State-of-the-art supply chain management systems can be obtained from the supply chain operations reference- model for business applications, advancement and practices. Problematic management processes in standard process reference model form improves competitive advantage, communication, dimensions, management, control and alter to a specific purpose among the supply chain management processes. This helps organizations capture the "as-is" state of a process with the objective of achieving the desired "to-be" future state. This paper presents supply chain management efforts, key challenges and opportunities in pakistan's industrial and organizational most successful sector and span of business 'from seed to smoke' by deploying the eminent supply chain operations reference-model.