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So far, those supply chains seem to be intact, partly helped by the sharp drop in the price of oil.

Some retailers are looking for opportunities to reintegrate their supply chains, which had been increasingly outsourced in recent years.

At least Japanese companies should be much better prepared for the inevitable disruption to supply chains than they were in 1995.

The company provides coverage across the UK and operates multi- customer logistics and supply chains for drink suppliers and retailers .

"If I were a company in that position I would be questioning the robustness of supply chains. "

On the surface, the pharmaceutical supply chain is similar to other supply chains with manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.

In over-complex supply chains, goods are often moved too frequently in and out of warehouses and between vehicles.

For their part, food companies have been trying to address weaknesses in their supply chains.

Consumers across the globe face a cost hike at a key stage in the thousands of supply chains that bring them electronics, clothes and toys.

Supply chains, multinationals are discovering, need as much tender loving care as the animals on the land.

"Supplier failure is an inherent problem in all supply chains, " she said.

Such a deal would also restrict the expansion of global supply chains to other areas of manufacturing, services and agriculture.

Modern global supply chains, experts say, mirror complex biological systems like the human body in many ways.

Paperwork , sales , bookkeeping , vendors and supply chains can be a drag but it's part of running the business .

Global supply chains have increased the amount of international trade involved in getting a product made and delivered to its final user.

In managing flows up and down supply chains, supply chain managers become involved in far more than just the movement of products.

In many cases improving the efficiency of supply chains also involves changing a company's relationships with its suppliers.

Fortunately, have begun to realize the globalization of supply chains, changes in the RMB exchange rate to us is a good thing.

Global supply chains are at risk of fragmenting, at huge cost to companies whose production networks are spread all over the world.

These are the dark pools where global supply chains begin -- the global supply chains, which bring us our favorite brand name products.

Supply chain configuration is one of the important factors to performance of supply chains.

Managers recruited from aerospace might be a good fit because of their experience with complex supply chains and long research lead-times.

That will simplify those supply chains, helping companies cope with shocks like the one inflicted by Japan's earthquake.

And long, complex supply chains turn out to be riskier than many firms realised.

And long, complex supply chains turn out to be riskier than many firms realized.

Asymmetric information is one of the causes lowering the efficiency of supply chains.

International supply chains have created a strong corporate constituency in favour of low tariffs.

In the long run, disruption to supply chains may be a huge strategic risk.

Companies like Walmart and Cisco have built global supply chains, linking cash registers at retail outlets with factories around the world.

enter new supply chains and gain access to key technology transfer through partnerships to help build up human capital.

Boeing and Airbus may have learnt a thing or two from the global supply chains of Brazil's Embraer.

Companies must be aware of the vulnerability of their supply chains in sectors as diverse as textiles, electronics and consumer products.

Despite these complications, carbon emissions created in supply chains are more straightforward than those generated elsewhere.

With traditional supply chains being out of order, supply chain partnership (SCP) will gradually come into being.

"There has been a definite shortening of supply chains, especially of those that had 30 or 40 processing steps, " says Mr Ghemawat.

approaches used for analyzing supply chains.

With truly global supply chains, perhaps it's time for a more accurate stamp: "Made Everywhere. "

They help address business challenges by implementing improved processes across physical operations, business processes, and supply chains.

Those individually tagged products now are running through a number of retailers' supply chains during this period of live testing.

But it's breaking their supply chains as well as slowing down their advance onto Benghazi by taking out their tanks and artillery.

"One little volcano highlighted how tightly integrated our supply chains are around the world, " he says.

Supply chains today are fragmented; sourcing and trade are integral parts of manufacturing.

It puts together customised supply chains from its vast network of associates and keeps an eye on quality and order fulfilment.

It requires raw materials, supply chains, fabrication facilities, and a lot of specialized equipment.

Unlike its lower-paying rivals, China has reasonable infrastructure, sophisticated supply chains and the advantage of scale.

Automotive supply chain is one of the most complex supply chains.

Unilever has unified systems and supply chains across the world, thus removing barriers to multi-country launches.

Both are capital-intensive, with long product development times, intricate supply chains and complex manufacturing processes.

Less noticed was the impact on supply chains, says Jade Rodysill, a senior manager in Accenture' supply chain practice.

The size and riskiness of large commercial-aircraft projects has forced even Boeing to create extended international supply chains.

The supply chains and capital flows linking global cities today have similarly denationalized international relations.

Global supply chains have stretched round the world and many European companies have outsourced production to Asia.

The region already shares supply chains, sales channels and human resources (with the exception of Chinese nationals working in Taiwan).

Both aviation giants are moaning loudly that their production systems and supply chains are flawed, albeit for ostensibly different reasons.

Through this integrated network, we provide importers and exporters a competitive advantage in managing their global supply chains.

Cost-cutting measures may also have made firms' supply chains more vulnerable to counterfeit parts.

Supply chains are already stretched and unless sustainable solutions are found this will act as a break on growth.

Some brands have made a commitment to ensuring a living wage for workers in their supply chains.

Processes that create value occur both within individual firms and between firms linked together in collaborative supply chains .

Yes, its most vibrant economic sectors are those that are connected to supply chains feeding the Asian manufacturing machine.

True, the PMI figures suggest Japan's manufacturers returned to growth last month, and the country is rebuilding damaged supply chains.

Mittelstand firms have refined their supply chains, factories and distribution networks to reach far-flung markets more quickly.

Governing industrial cluster and supply chains are two important ways to improve the local or industrial competitive abilities.

Shocks could ripple up and down global supply chains at speed .

Like it or not, China already dominates many of the links in manufacturers' supply chains.

Optimization of collaborative planning among partners across various supply chains was studied.

Transportation snafus and power outages also caused temporary disruption to other supply chains, pushing up prices.

But as faith wilts, might business leaders rethink their dependency on, say, cross-border manufacturing supply chains, too?

"One issue on the export side is the ongoing struggle to restore damaged production lines and supply chains, " said Ms Fink of Jefferies.

Soaring oil prices crimped consumer spending. The Japanese earthquake disturbed supply chains.

In the 21st century, competitions have already evolved for the competition between the supply chains.

Companies now focus on their core competencies, and partner with other companies to create supply chains for fast-moving markets.

They are just some among many companies taking more direct control of supply chains across the globe.

In time, of course, other places will build better roads and ports and supply chains.

Governments have ceded power to mobile financial capital, to cross-border supply chains and to rapid shifts in comparative advantage.

We then further study the optimal revenue-sharing contract and the revenue-sharing contract in decentralized supply chains.

Farmers who are struggling to survive are unlikely to invest in quality coffee, threatening the sustainability of Starbucks' supply chains.

Over the past two decades, multinational companies have built and tightly managed supply chains that span the globe.

This thesis mainly concerns on the location problem of automobile reverse logistics network within closed-loop supply chains.

Meanwhile, globalization makes process time of supply chains longer than before and more difficult to fulfill the need of delivery in time.

Economists are enthused about direct links. Their absence has excluded Taiwan from global supply chains.

has since expanded to encompass a broad portfolio of businesses contributing to efficient supply chains.

This new localism has made life more comfortable for dealers, because they have been able to shorten their supply chains.

Officials in Zhejiang granted free rein to indigenous entrepreneurs, allowing them to build larger, more dynamic local supply chains.

In economic terms, this lays bare the fragility of supply chains in a globalised market.

Supply chains criss-cross oceans, letting firms buy whatever they want from whoever makes it most efficiently.

In this modern world of international supply chains, bilateral exchange rate changes can have unexpected consequences.

safety and reduce costs along the organic and "low input" food supply chains.

Supply chains are rickety and shockingly wasteful. Perhaps a third of vegetables rot before reaching a plate.

Enterprises'supply chains get optimized by using IT solutions and automatic warehousing equipment.

Supply chain relationship and cooperative behaviors are vital to business of firms in supply chains.

For the second consecutive year, Apple Computer has captured the top spot in AMR Research's rankings of the world's Top 25 supply chains.

A ripple effect across the whole supply chain will have a huge effect on the existing business methods and supply chains.

Table 2 summarizes the business impact of the value and supply chains as being components of the overall value stream.

But as this survey will show, supply chains harbour dangers too, and managing risk is becoming a pressing issue.

What do securitised mortgages and manufacturing supply chains have in common?

'There is a fairly high risk that this type of unrest might spread to our supply chains in China, ' a Beijing-based Toyota executive said.

Certainly, global supply-chains are more complex and harder to pick apart than in those days.

THE Japan quake, some experts say, will prompt companies to re-evaluate risk in their supply chains.

Its effect on everything from commodity markets to global supply chains and military plans is undeniable.

Supply chains are now more likely than ever to run through both Chinese and Indian companies.

But the report says the risk extends to all kinds of industries with long supply chains for the goods used in their products.

What are the chances that a catastrophic earthquake could strike Japan and severely cripple supply chains?

China's pivotal position in global supply chains for many products makes higher local prices a global concern.

Both Mengniu and Yili have issued multiple apologies to the public and promised to overhaul their supply chains in the future.

Companies are thinking in more sophisticated ways about their supply chains.

Countries are far more interdependent through supply chains, imported inputs, and even services.

In the logistics area, globalisation is creating ever more complex supply chains.

Manufacturing supply chains in the US and Europe are showing signs of straining to cope with demand.

whether the management of global supply chains?

There are temporary factors involved, like higher gasoline prices, and the impact on supply chains of the Japan tragedy.

Greenpeace says the foreign firms need to insist upon higher standards throughout their supply chains.

A clustering of businesses has made for condensed, complete supply chains.

Basic conception of this paper is balance and stable of supply chains. We research this paper based on it.

Many sophisticated supply chains now stretch across continents and rely on just-in-time delivery.

Some small farmers have gained profitable access to modern supply chains.

China has few national brands and the supply chains operate only on a regional level.

Foreign food retailers try to police their own supply chains.

Supermarkets could cut prices if their supply chains were better-oiled.

China has been tightening export quotas since 2006, sparking increasing concern about its ability to disrupt supply chains.

Its rapid growth hasn't been accompanied by improved standards in its supply chains.

In just-in-time (JIT) ways, the delivery behaviors depend on the manufacturers in supply chains.

Self-interest also explains why many companies are intent on creating greener supply chains, in spite of the costs.

It erodes confidence in supply chains and may dent overall production.

We are seeing supply chains and logistics systems that range across continents and oceans.

'Supply chains are already being disrupted. '

With supply chains in better order, auto production is bouncing back.

Business leaders also know that new trade frictions are especially damaging in an era of global supply chains.

Japan's earthquake has raised questions about the vulnerability of supply chains to disruption caused by natural disasters.

The results provide some decisionmaking basis for agents in practical supply chains.

"Most of the toy industry had supply chains that survived the storm, " Mr Hassenfeld said.

Small famers easily can lose access to supermarket supply chains, and fall further into poverty.

A network construction model of supply chains is proposed.

The Japanese earthquake's impact on supply chains may only now be being felt.

To make matters worse, in many organizations, additional chains intersect with both the development and the supply chains.

The steel products marketing competition will be a competition of supply chains in the future.

No, the supply chains themselves depend on the costs of labor being low.

Contemporary marketing competence has been changing from the competent model based on enterprises to supply chains.

On a very basic level, higher costs in China are prompting businesses to diversify their export supply chains.

Elaborate supply chains now span many borders: South Korean goods may be assembled in China, using machines from Japan.

Will supply chains completely break down?

"The goal is to make supply chains less static and more dynamic, " he says.

Many businesses have decided to close, in part because of disrupted supply chains, but also because of the uncertainty over access to power.

Those supply chains I put up on the screen earlier, they're not there.

Global supply chains have shown weak links.

Often they sign up because they want to do business in developed markets, or within the supply chains of Western multinationals.

The convergence is good for Apple, but is a threat to some established supply chains and manufacturers.

Strong regional tastes and lack of national scale stymie the development of national brands and efficient supply chains.

So, when supply chains shriveled, entrepreneurial Ohmori became a manufacturer.

Some temporary factors are in play such as disruption to manufacturing supply chains in the wake of Japan's terrible tsunami.

And they may have an advantage when growing demand for essential raw materials stretches supply chains.

because of the complexity of reworking assembly lines and supply chains.

Our lifestyle relies on networks such as traffic on the roads, information flow on the Web and business supply chains.

And there is goodwill on both sides to keep supply chains intact.

Opening up broad access to data and people using models such as deeply linked REST-based data webs and open supply chains.

Although some supply chains have choke points, that is a weak general argument for sectoral aid.

It's a new field to research the cluster supply chains in the development process of industrial cluster theory.

When an epidemic such as SARS hits Asia or when an earthquake hits Japan, supply chains are disrupted.

North America has 28 per cent of the world's container fleet and companies such as Walmart and Apple have pioneered global supply chains.

In order to realize the agility of supply chains, coordination amongst agents is very important.

Taiwan is already deeply enmeshed in China's trade networks and supply chains.

We need to pay attention to a problem that how to improve the efficiency of supply chains.

And they have one of the world's most amazing supply chains, 60, 000 suppliers.

The paper firstly reviews the development of supply chain management and discusses why and how to coordinate supply chains.

Economists say soaring labor costs in China could change the cost structure of global supply chains.

they can use this to help them make big decisions about their supply chains , for example , to whom they should award a contract.

That geographic and technological evolution, in theory, should make adapting to the disaster in Japan easier for corporate supply chains.

The problems in Japan could prompt big manufacturers to reassess the risks in their global supply chains.

Tapping into the supply chains of big brands is easy, producers say.

Integrating the economics, policy drivers and considerations of the interactions of energy supply chains, within China

Electronic Commerce Applied to the Structure Optimization in Agricultural Products'supply Chains System

Research on the Strategies Factors and the Cooperation Synergy among the Enterprises in Supply Chains

New Challenges for Public Governance: Supply Chains in an Era of Market- focused Economic Management

Implementation of JIT Purchasing Coordination Mechanism of Supply Chains Under Uncertain Conditions

Less advanced countries are joining international supply chains, specializing initially in simple tasks;

A Study of the Cooperation Strategies Between Suppliers and Ma nufacturers in Supply Chains

Information Technology and reconstruction of agricultural supply chains

Optimizations in Supply Chains of Transportation Services Provided by Different Enterprises and the Integrated VMI Model

Parallel Track: Risk Management in Global Supply Chains (Quality, Warranties, Financing)

Study on the Application of Gray Relative Analysis Method in the Appraisal of the Achievement of Supply Chains

Supply chains management and its effect upon business procedures

Incentive Contract Design for the Firms'Coordination in Supply Chains with Core Enterprise

Analysis on Asymmetric Marketing Information Sharing Mechanism in Supply Chains

Information Sharing And Collaborative Forecasting In Retail Supply Chains

On the Balance and Optimization of the Cost of Supply Chains

Research on the Comprehensive Evaluation of the Flexibility of Supply Chains

Stability Analysis and Stabilization Strategies for Linear Supply Chains

On the Management of Japanese Entire Automobile Supply and the Establishment of Supply Chains in Guangdong Province

Irregular information distortion and weakening methods in supply chains

Coordinating Supply Chains with Simple Pricing Schemes: The Role of Vendor-Managed Inventories By: Bernstein, Chen, Federgruen

Centralised logistics services and greater control of retailer supply chains

Game Analyses of Cooperative Advertising in Manufacturer-Agent Supply Chains

Application of Intensive Learning Algorithm to Inventory Control in Supply Chains

Supply-Chains-Oriented Knowledge Chain Model and Management Strategies

Study of Supply Chains Optimization and Coordination Model Based on Conditional Value-at-Risk

Characterization of the Bullwhip Effect in Linear, Time-Invariant Supply Chains By: Ouyang, Daganzo

Quick response practices and technologies in developing supply chains

Competition among Supply Chains and Coordination with Contracts

Research and Design of Network Supply Chains Information Management System

Application of Attribute Theory Method in Prevention of Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains

Study on Strategic Partnership between Supply Chains and Enterprises

The Firm Equilibrium Analysis on Supply Chains Competitiveness

The Impact of VMI to the Profits of Wholesalers and Retailers in Pharmaceutics Supply Chains

Analysis on the Impact of Reverse Logistics Management on the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains

Benefit-Cost Analysis of Information Sharing Technology in Supply Chains

Cost Management in Supply Chains; Target Cost; Activate-Based Cost; Cost Control;

Performance Measuring Indicators of Supply Chains

Overview on Coordinative Management of Supply Chains from Domestic to Abroad

The Integration of Knowledge Between Supply Chains in Merger and Acquisition

Mechanism of VMI Incentive Based on Stock out in Supply Chains

A Selecting Model about Reclaiming Agent Selection on the Basis of Reverse Supply Chains

Researching of infrastructure architecture of agile supply chains management system based on the distributed multi-agent

From the Visibility of Military Logistics to the Global Business Supply Chains

Water resources supply chains contract study in south-north water diversion

Structural Analysis on Efficiency Lose of the Supply Chains

A Comparative Research on the Different Positions of Retailers in Supply Chains

Study on the fractal characters of the bullwhip effect in supply chains

Scale Effects of Push - type Collaborative Innovation in Supply Chains

Disruption to electricity supplies will damage growth, and some Asian supply chains are already facing problems;

Information Asymmetry and Opportunism in Supply Chains

Design and Realization of the Logistics Management Information Platform Based on Agile Supply Chains

Research on performance evaluating indexes in supply chains

A talk on optimization of materials supply chains from selection of partners and coordination with them

The Research on Mechanism of Conflict Among Supply Chains Enterprises

Seeking to manage and improve workers'access to their legal rights and working conditions in supply chains

A Research into the Contrary Logistics Management under the Environment of Supply Chains

Mechanisms of Formation and Operation on Interfirm Strategic Partnerships in Supply Chains

Review of the Research on Information Management in Supply Chains

Bullwhip Effect and Mitigating Strategies in Supply Chains

Quality contract and individual decisions in supply chains

Study on Competition Relationship of Cluster Supply Chains

Modern supply chains are making it easier for economies to industrialise

Evolution Simulation for the Stock Policy of Supply Chains

Supply Chains and Development of the Top-Grade Pork in the Big City

On the Competitive Advantage of Supply Chains

Modern Material Circulation and the Management of Supply Chains

Developments of Supply Chains in the Automotive Industry

Collaborative planning in supply chains based on Lagrangian relaxation and genetic algorithm

Management of Supply Chains for Retail Enterprises

Risk Allocation of Capacity Investment in Supply Chains

Integrative dynamic model and control for supply chains

Define supply chains and value chains and understand their roles

The Inventory Cost Control in the Kernel Enterprise of Supply Chains

Competing in the e-Business Era: Purchasing, Power and Supply Chains

TB Analysis and Algorithms for Service Parts Supply Chains

Strategic Features and Building Ways of Supply Chains

How to analyze, baseline and benchmark supply chains and to improve performance by reengineering on core supply chain processes

Measures of Cost Control on Supply Chains of Software Company

A Comparative Study on the Architecture of Supply Chains

A Study on the Performance Evaluating Index in Supply Chains