A proven,innovative approach to meeting customer demand Combining an intensive focus on customer/marketplace demands with innovative technology tools developed to execute demand chain planning, Managing the Demand-Supply Chain sets forth a powerful new model for fulfilling customer demand in the...

Information technology-based enterprise integration and supplychain management.Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in the nationaleconomy. They employ a major portion of the workforce and contributesignificantly to GDP. SMEs are flexible and innovative considering their sizeand...

From start to finish, this book provides a comprehensive lean six sigma case study. The text follows a team as they implement a lean six sigma project and provides over illustrative 100 figures and tables. Unlike current published case studies, which give only an overview, this in-depth case...

Fierce global competition in the tourism industry is now focused on integral parts of supply chains rather than on individual firms. The highly competitive environment has forced tourism firms to look for ways to enhance their competitive advantage. Tourism products are often viewed by consumers...

The enterprise-focused framework of supply chain, which an overwhelming majority of books on supply chain management (SCM) have adopted, falls short in explaining recent developments in the real world, especially the so-called Wal-Mart model, in which a 'factory' is a virtual logistics network...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Politics of "Big-Brand Sustainability" -- 2 The Eco-Business Setting -- 3 The Eco-Business Market Advantage -- 4 Eco-Business Tools of Supply-Chain Power -- 5 The Supply-Chain Eco-Business of Brand Growth -- 6 Eco-Business Governance -- Notes --...

Intro -- SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT: THEORIES, ACTIVITIES/FUNCTIONS AND PROBLEMS -- SUPPLY-CHAIN MANAGEMENT: THEORIES, ACTIVITIES/FUNCTIONS AND PROBLEMS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 "NEW" CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTALISM: A POLITICAL ECOLOGY CRITIQUE OF TOBACCO SCRM -- Abstract -- Introduction --...

The design, manufacture and delivery of a product requires ever‐higher levels of knowledge and expertise within the supply chain. If concurrent engineering (CE) in tiered supply chains is to be fully implemented, a practical CE strategy needs to recognise that successful, concurrent designs...