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Supporting small businesses in their transition to lean production

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 5 (2000) 2, pp. 66-71

activities that can help facilitate implementation and ensure that lean production does not become another “flavour of the month”. …

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Business‐to‐business online auctions: key issues for purchasing process improvement

Emiliani, M.L. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 5 (2000) 4, pp. 176-186

methods and the implementation of lean production that are needed by both buyers and suppliers in order to truly eliminate …

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Online reverse auction purchasing contracts

Emiliani, M.L.; Stec, D.J. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 6 (2001) 3, pp. 101-105

practices. Concludes that buyers must construct terms and conditions that support the implementation of lean production by …

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A product driven approach to manufacturing supply chain selection

Huang, Samuel H.; Uppal, Mohit; Shi, J. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 7 (2002) 4, pp. 189-199

A supply chain consists of suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers, all linked together with a forward flow of material and backward flow of information. It encompasses all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods from raw material extraction through end use....

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Use the supply relationship to develop lean and green suppliers

Simpson, Dayna F.; Power, Damien J. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 10 (2005) 1, pp. 60-68

Purpose – To investigate the relationship between a supplier and firm's level of environmental management activity and the structure of the customer‐supplier manufacturing relationship. Design/methodology/approach – This paper presents a conceptual framework and looks at the literature in...

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Strategic considerations in the development of lean agri‐food supply chains: a case study of the UK pork sector

Taylor, David H. - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 11 (2006) 3, pp. 271-280

Purpose – To show how value chain analysis techniques have highlighted opportunities for strategic change in a UK agri‐food supply chain and to present an initial model of an integrated supply chain based on the application of lean principles. Design/methodology/approach – The paper...

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Supply chain management and suppliers' HRM practice

Othman, Rozhan; Abdul Ghani, Rohayu - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 13 (2008) 4, pp. 259-262

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of supply chain management (SCM) on the HRM practice of suppliers. The paper argues that the performance requirement in an SCM system requires that suppliers develop specific HRM practices. Design/methodology/approach – A structured...

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Lean supply chain and its effect on product cost and quality: a case study on Ford Motor Company

Wee, H.M.; Wu, Simon - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 14 (2009) 5, pp. 335-341

. Research limitations/implications – Since a comprehensive demonstration of VSM implementation is likely to be both expensive …

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Development of lean supply chains: a case study of the Catalan pork sector

Perez, Catalina; de Castro, Rodolfo; Simons, David; … - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 15 (2010) 1, pp. 55-68

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the characteristics and the performance of the Catalan pork supply chain, with the objective to assess whether this operates according to the parameters of a lean chain. Moreover there is a tentative lean supply chain model contribution....

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Lean competence: integration of theories in operations management practice

Parry, Glenn; Mills, John; Turner, Celine - In: Supply Chain Management: An International Journal 15 (2010) 3, pp. 216-226

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a methodology for lean implementation that reduces the risk of damaging a company … domain experts from 15 major aerospace companies in the UK to develop a methodology for lean implementation that would not … theory was proposed through an industrial working group. Further a methodology for lean implementation, drawing upon core …

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