Supply chain single sourcing

Merge-in-Transit/Hub consolidation Merge-in-Transit is a practice to combine items from multiple sources into a single customer shipment. This includes items on stock in the distribution center, from which the shipment is sent, items on stock in other distribution centers, items on stock elsewhere (e.g. at a plant or a supplier) as well as make-to-order items. The items to be merged are cross-docked from inbound receipt to outbound shipping. Merging is usually performed in a shipper s distribution center (DC) or in a carrier s terminal 6-Functional supply chain processes (source and deliver) X 0... 

Single-sourcing restrictions can be employed between different echelons of a supply chain. Their objective often is to reduce the complexity of the supply network. For example, in a production-distribution model a restriction might be included to ensure that each customer is only served by one distribution center (e.g., Tsiakis et al. 2001, p. 3590 Geoffrion and Graves 1974, p. 823). 

The major source of raw materials for the preparation of fatty amines is fats and oils such as tallow, and coconut, soya, and palm oils. Ethji Corporation uses petrochemicals as raw materials to prepare alkyldimethyl and dialkjlmethyl tertiary fatty amines, trademarked as ADMA and DAMA products, which can be supplied as single-carbon chain-length cuts or custom blends (13). Commercially available high purity fatty amines are listed in Table 3. Cost of the amines can vary owing to supply of raw materials. 

To accomplish these objectives, a detailed review of academic literature was performed to identify the components and characteristics of a demand driven supply chain, as these characteristics are not currently available in one single source. 

These requirements involve government and trade requirements — issues that have increasing importance in global supply chains. Topics include taxes and tariffs, standards for customer protection, efforts to combat terrorism, environmental regulation, social policy, religious customs, and liability law. In some industries, changes here are the single most important determinant of future success. An important consideration can also be RETURN-related issues in areas where the company sells, makes, or sources materials for its products. 

As mentioned above, the supply chain in MRO activities is not the same as first build. The physical sources of supply are shown in Figure 41.1. As will be obvious, the issue in this case is that it is diffieult to know what components will be required from eaeh part of the supply ehain. The biggest single source of parts comes from a returned unit. In many cases, customers require that the recovered or repaired parts used in any unit come from the same original unit. In some cases, this has teehnieal advantages due to questions of balance and assembly of the units after maintenance is complete. In some cases, the customer ean be persuaded to allow either recovered parts from other of his units (fleet parts) or any recovered part certified by the MRO organization as being to speeification. 

Sell-Source-Ship (3S) A supply chain characterization in which the seller does not hold inventory. Once an order is placed, the seller channels orders to single or multiple sources. This is the opposite of the Buy-Hold-Sell model, in which the seller does hold inventory. 

Material flow risks Many examples of natural disasters such as labour strikes and fires have brought an end to supply of material. In supply chain material flow, demand fluctuations and supply dismptions are two types of primary uncertainties which involve issues as single sourcing risk, sourcing flexibility risk, supplier selection/outsourcing, supply product monitoring/quality and supply capacity. 

Sure, this is a simplified example as the focus lies restricted to the processes located in North America but it stiU outlines the intention of pinpointing the processes on a map. Hence, for a single customer segment the corresponding supply chain processes plan, source, source return, make, deliver, and deliver return shall be located in the world map depicted in Fig. 9.12. In order to gain a rough overview and to avoid complexity, it shall be stated in which part of the world a process is carried out. For example whether the make process is conducted in Europe, North America, South America, Australia, Africa, and/or Asia. 

Merge-in-Tran it is a practice to combine items from multiple sources Supply Chain into a single customer shipment. This Processes includes items on stock in the (Source/Deliver)... 

System leaders offer single-source supply chain accelerators... 

Which of them has the best offer It is not an easy decision. This dilemma will be defused by the fact that some enterprises will take system leadership and offer all relevant supply chain services from a single source, thereby guaranteeing an excellent cost-benefit ratio. 

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In some cases, companies want to design supply chain networks in which a market is supplied from only one factory, referred to as a single source. Companies may impose this constraint because it lowers the complexity of coordinating the network and requires less flexibility from each facility. The plant location model discussed earlier needs some modification to accommodate this constraint. The decision variables are redefined as follows ... 

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