Managing the global supply chain [[electronic resource] /] / Tage Skjøtt-Larsen ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821860803321
• Autore: Skjott-Larsen Tage
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Copenhagen, : Copenhagen Business School; Malmö, : Liber, 2007
• ISBN: 9788763099783 (e-book)
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (459 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): Skjott-LarsenTage; ScharyPhilip B
• Disciplina: 658.7
• Soggetti: Business logistics; Physical distribution of goods - Management; Industrial procurement - Management; International business enterprises - Management
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-452) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Managing the Global Supply Chain""; ""Overview of Contents""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""1. Introduction to the Supply Chain""; ""Introduction to Supply Chain Management""; ""The Supply Chain""; ""Supply Chain Management (SCM)""; ""The Customer Orientation""; ""Multiple Management Perspectives""; ""The Characteristics of the Supply Chain""; ""Understanding the Supply Chain""; ""The Framework""; ""Systemic Approach""; ""Supply Chain Processes""; ""The Management Tasks""; ""The New Corporate Environment""; ""A Model of the Global Supply Chain""; ""The Approach of the Book""; ""Concepts""; ""Processes""""Management Issues""; ""Summary""; ""2. Structure and Process""; ""The Value Chain and the Value System""; ""The Structure of the Supply Chain""; ""The Concept of Postponement""; ""Building Structure""; ""The Bullwhip Effect""; ""What are Activities?""; ""Core Competencies and Outsourcing""; ""Components in Supply Chain Management""; ""Network Structure""; ""Management Components""; ""Concluding Comments""; ""3. Inter-organizational Relationships""; ""Relationships from a Network Perspective""; ""Industrial Networks""; ""Transactions""; ""The Firm as a Nexus of Contracts""; ""Boundaries and Governance""""Static versus Dynamic Boundaries""; ""Is Transaction Cost Theory »Bad for Practice«?""; ""TCA Focuses on Cost Efficiency""; ""Asset Specificity based on »Sunk Costs«""; ""Too Costly to Develop or Acquire Specific Assets""; ""Perceptions of Trust""; ""Developing Collaborative Relationships""; ""Conclusion""; ""Illustrative Case""; ""Benetton's Supply Networks""; ""4. The Information System for the Supply Chain""; ""Introduction""; ""Logistics Information""; ""Information Exchange""; ""Information and Operations""; ""The Concept of a Supply Chain Information System""""The Intra-firm Information System""; ""The Inter-firm Information System""; ""Interface Optimization""; ""Elements of the Information System""; ""On-demand Computing""; ""Software Systems""; ""Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)""; ""Software for Supply Chain Management""; ""General Application Areas for Supply Chain Information Systems""; ""Communications""; ""Concluding Comments""; ""Illustrative Case""; ""Gillette and RFID""; ""5. Distribution""; ""International Markets""; ""The Structure of International Distribution""; ""Global Marketing""""The Complexity of Distribution""; ""The Major Elements of Distribution and its Requirements""; ""Deficiencies of Traditional Distribution and Distribution Dynamics""; ""Push versus Pull""; ""The Marketing Channel""; ""Major Channel Decisions""; ""Sales Decisions""; ""Physical Distribution Decisions""; ""Global Retail Distribution""; ""Retailing as a Supply Chain Function""; ""Grocery Retailing""; ""Garments""; ""Global Retail Logistics Operations""; ""E-commerce and the Supply Chain""; ""The Attractiveness of a New Channel""; ""The Case of Grocery E-tailing""; ""The Structure of E-commerce Fulfillment""