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Increased concern for the environment has lead to new techniques to design products and supply chains that are both economically and ecologically feasible. This paper deals with the product - and corresponding supply chain design for a refrigerator. Literature study shows that there are many...
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This paper contains the dataset for the refrigerator case concerning the design of a production and return network for refrigerators. Section 1 emphasises the major changes to the problem structure and assumptions used by Umeda et al. (1999). Section 2 contains the parameter settings. Section 3...
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Logistics network design is commonly recognized as a strategic supply chain issue of prime importance. The location of production facilities, storage concepts, and transportation strategies are major determinants of supply chain performance. This chapter considers logistics network design for...
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Die Artikel des Schwerpunktheftes setzen an verschiedenen inhaltlichen Dimensionen und Ebenen dieser Fragmentierung an: Auf der Arbeitsebene ist der Beitrag von Gabriele Fassauer und Silke Geithner angesiedelt, der die inner-organisatorische Bewaeltigung von Co-Konfiguration durch...
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of manufacturing flexibility in the North American automotive industry. In particular, we track demonstrated ability to …-cycle as well as aging models. Moreover, we find strong evidence that automotive manufacturers use flexibility as a … “competitive weapon”; flexibility is deployed in market segments in which there are a larger number of flexible competitors …
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A flexible product is a menu of two or more alternatives products serving the same market. Purchasers of flexible products are assigned to one of the alternatives at a later date. Gallego and Phillips show that capacitated suppliers, such as airlines and hotels, can potentially improve revenue...
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network flexibility of the firm as antecedents of a firm’s supply chain agility (FSCA), also incorporating the moderating role … FSCA can be enhanced through the transactive memory system and supply network flexibility, although a higher degree of … transactive memory system weakens the positive relationship between supply network flexibility and FSCA. A positive relationship …
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This paper studies the effect of external managerial social networks on strategic flexibility and organizational … influence the external social networks differently, affecting strategic flexibility and organizational learning, as literature … on external social networks suggests that they can affect strategic flexibility and organizational learning positively …
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Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...
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flexibility supply chain – as well as the supplier development and inventory control towards the supply chain effectiveness … – The study finds that all supply chain strategies, namely, supply chain visibility, supply chain flexibility, supplier …
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