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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458915703321

Autore

Skjott-Larsen Tage

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Copenhagen, : Copenhagen Business School

Malmö, : Liber, 2007

ISBN

1-62198-670-5

87-630-9978-0

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Disciplina

658.7

Soggetti

Business logistics

Physical distribution of goods - Management

Industrial procurement - Management

International business enterprises - Management

Electronic books.

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""



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Record Nr.

UNISA996396021703316

Titolo

Weighty queries relating to the past, present, and future state of Ireland; [[electronic resource] ] : calculated for the present and future benefit of that unhappy kingdom. And tendred to the serious consideration of all who are willing to be inform'd how it became unhappy, and how it may yet be made happy again to posterity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Printed for Richard Baldwin, near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1691

Descrizione fisica

4 p

Soggetti

Ireland History 17th century Early works to 1800

Ireland Politics and government 17th century Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Imprint from colophon.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018