Strategic factors

Slides Map of World (to illustrate strategic factors) open-cast copper mine (to emphasise energy needed to extract ores) recycling of scrap metals, glass, building materials, etc. 

Environmental and security issues are multifaceted and complex, in cultural, political and scientific sense, hi a fundamental way, the environment must be viewed as a strategic factor to be weighed in with many other variables affecting a global or homeland security. 

It is time, I believe, for us to place growth in context, and to ask these important questions again. It is also time for an integration of growth (as a primary objective of the firm and the means of obtaining profitability) with other critical strategic factors that bear on the ultimate... 

The criteria for judging whether British policy took proper cognisance of technical, economic and strategic factors are difficult to establish. Great military thinkers, such as Clausewitz (1780-1831) and Antoine Jomini (1779-1869), and naval historians, such as Alfred Mahan (1840-1914)... 

In addition, because of improved service levels, SCM can make a significant contribution towards preventing lost sales and become a strategic factor for differentiation, enhanced customer value propositions, and market share gains. 

Fig. 22.1 SCM as a strategic factor for differentiation, value creation, and market share gain - the Dell case.

The problem of portfolio selection is easily expressed numerically as a constrained optimization maximize economic criterion subject to constraint on available capital. This is a form of the knapsack problem, which can be formulated as a mixed-integer linear program (MILP), as long as the project sizes are fixed. (If not, then it becomes a mixed-integer nonlinear program.) In practice, numerical methods are very rarely used for portfolio selection, as many of the strategic factors considered are difficult to quantify and relate to the economic objective function. 

In the case of basic products and intermediates it is not the individual chemical product but the production process or technology which has a life cyde. For example. Figure 1-4 shows the life cycles of the acrylic acid and ethylene oxide processes [Jentzsch 1990, Ozero 1984]. To remain competetive here the producer must be the price leader for his process. Therefore, strategic factors for success are [Felcht 2000) ... 

Specialty chemicals are complex mixtures whose value lies in the synergistic action of their ingredients. Here the application technology is decisive for market success. The manufacturer can no longer produce all ingredients, which can lead to a certain state of dependence. Strategic factors for successfiil manufacturers are [Felcht 2000, Willers 2000) ... 

We define strategic factors as those with implementation six or more months in the future. Usually these involve design changes in the physical or operating system where procurement emd installation take that much time. Examples include ... 

This section presents a detailed discussion of the supply chain design criteria used in the case study (Figure 8.4) and the procedure to determine the criteria weights and preferences. Assessment of risk and of strategic factors is also discussed. 

Finally, we presented a real-world application for designing a resilient global supply chain for a multinational consumer products company. A multi-criteria optimization model explicitly considered conflicting criteria that integrated financial, customer service, supply chain risk and strategic factors of the company. Model results and managerial implications were also presented. 

GP Gross profit LT Lead time DF Demand fulfillment RD Risk of disruption SF Strategic factor... 

Moreover, to reveal the possible improvement potentials of the prevailing supply chain, a supply chain assessment based on a gap analysis and a selfbenchmarking based on adequate key performance indicators (KPIs) is conducted. The gap analysis as a strategic factor results from the deduced TO-BE configuration compared to the AS-IS situation of the supply chain. Just like the gap... 

The understanding and analysis of strategic factors can determine the success of a sourcing strategy. Strategic factors relate to the longer-term... 

There are a number of strategic factors affecting the financial management that drive the business strategy of an organization in both manufacturing and service sectors. We shall review three areas ... 

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