Case studies supply chain relationships

As described in Section 1.1, the goal of the simulation study is to quantify the relationships between the simulation outputs and the inputs or factors. For this case study, the outputs are the steady-state mean costs of the whole supply chain (discussed in Section 3.2) and the inputs are factors such as lead-time, quality, operation time of an individual process, and number of resources. Our ultimate goal (as reported by Kleijnen et al., 2003) is to find robust solutions for the supply chain problem. Thus we distinguish between two types of factors ... 

The open and seamless lines of communication that often exist between supply chain partners tend to have a leveling effect on the IT security posture of all involved. Just because your firm takes information security seriously, it should not be assumed that partners do the same. Twelve percent of the respondents in our study reported terminating a relationship with a supply chain partner over security concerns. Treat interconnected IT systems as a special case of the untrusted network. Audit and protect it accordingly. 

The aim of this study has been to demonstrate factors and individual levels that are critical to the outcome of relationships where supply chain members are involved in collaboration. The case study in this collaboration enabled an in-depth insight into its characteristics, such as technological capability and competence of supplier, suppliers level of independency or interdependency, and openness of processes in line with confidentiality. The case study also introduced a three-stage approach, wherein to achieve a smooth transition towards collaboration, the transition should include the three levels from the SCM level to SBU level to individual level and strive to create a common aim /strategic goal at each level. 

This chapter describes the case study of supply chain configuration at an electronics manufacturing company. The main attention was devoted to suppliers relationships management, in order to adopt appropriate poUcies for supplier selection. The main suppher selection driver was the impact of supply reUabiUty on promised... 

All the companies that participated in this case study interviews have been involved in vegetable industry for several years and functioned at different stages in the vegetable supply chain. Basically we distinguish two different relationships for companies the relationships with their sellers and buyers separately. 

The aim of this research is to study if the Chinese cultural and social embedded guanxi networks are important in business practices and how they influence buyer-seller relationships and performances in vegetable supply chains in China. We interviewed 8 case companies to explore their guanxi network, trust, transaction specific investments, channel and governance choices and performance attributes of transaction costs and quality satisfaction. Summaries of the 9 selected buyer-seller relationships (relationship 1-9 in Figure 2-6) for each case company are listed in Table 2. 

Subsequently, the developed quantification approach is to be tested out by performing the calculations for a case study of relatively low complexity by way of example. The study examines a supplier-buyer relationship in an supply chain section of the food industry. The names of the two supply chain players involved are given as Ci and C2 to ensure data confidentiality and to satisfy the non-disclosure agreements. For the same reason, the balance sheet and P L items are shown in modified form, keeping the ratio between the data identical so as not to undermine the meaningfulness of the findings. The relative effects of the analysed SCI remain unaffected. 

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