Supply chain management operations

We promote a risk-aware culture in all areas of the company s decision-making. Improving the sustainability of our own operations, supply chain management, and technology and plant safety management have been identified as important targets to meet the expectations of customers, employees and other stakeholders. ... 

Operational excellence. Here, the strategy centres on superb operations and execution, often by providing a reasonable quality at low price. The focus is on efficiency, streamlining operations, supply chain management, everyday low price. Most large international corporations use this discipline. 

Based on the characterization of a supply chain, supply chain management (SCM) can be defined as a process oriented approach to procuring, producing, and delivering end products and services to customers. It includes sub-suppliers, suppliers, internal operations, trade customers, retail customers and end users. It covers the management of materials, information, and fund flows [2],... 

The Supply Chain Operations Reference-model [12] has been developed and endorsed by the Supply-Chain Council (SCC), an independent non-profit-making corporation, as the cross-industry standard for supply-chain management. 

Bryant, G. F. Developments in Supply Chain Management Control Systems Design. In Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations (FOCAPO), D. W. T. Rippin J. C. Hale and J. F. Davis, eds. CACHE Corporation, Austin, TX (1993), pp. 317-340. 

All concepts can be related to the supply chain planning matrix most of them are a re-branded description of short-term and operative supply chain planning problems. Concluding, SCM reached the highest level of crossfunctional and cross-company orientation of management concepts in the value chain with the emphasis on supply. 

This value chain management definition relies on a three-level structure for strategic, tactical and operative company control introduced by Anthony (1965) and used in controlling and supply chain management literature (Rohde et al. 2000). 

Kennedy Information (2005) Operations Management Consulting Growth Shifts From Supply Chain Management to Ends of Value Chain. URL http //www.marketwire.com/mw/release html b l release id=95751, Date 22.09.2005... 

Krenek MR (1997) Improve global competitiveness with supply-chain management - Manufacturers must rethink how, when, where and why they produce goods. Hydrocarbon Processing 76 (5) 97-100 Krever M, Wunderink S, Dekker R, Schorr B (2005) Inventory control based on advanced probability theory, an application. European Journal of Operational Research 162 (2) 342-358... 

Chopra, S. and Meindl, P. (2004) Supply Chain Management Strategy, Planning and Operations, 2nd edn, Pearson Education, New Jersey. 

Regulators and customers require assurance in consistency of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical manufacturing operations. Today s manufacturing supply chains require multiple sites in varying locations to produce a product. Quality systems must be perceived as an integral part of the value chain. This requires that all sites be compliant in their operations and systems. Strong areas in one location do not make up for weak or absent systems in another location. Fines are levied and business is made or lost based on the individual site or weakest link in the supply chain. Management must have a mechanism to measure its processes, and a comprehensive QMS is the mechanism to demonstrate capability. 

Bertrand JWM (2003) Supply Chain Design Flexibility Considerations. In de Kok AG, Graves SC (eds) Supply Chain Management Design, Coordination and Operation. Elsevier, Amsterdam et al., pp 133-198... 

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