Zugl.: Magdeburg, Univ., Diss., 2008

Diss. Univ. Augsburg, 2006.

Sustainability has become a critical topic in all areas of supply chain management. As discussed earlier, drivers for this development can be identified as both internal and external phenomena. Since customers are one of the key stakeholders in supply chain management, special attention is paid to the impact of costumers´ behavior on sustainable supply chain design decisions. In this context, two main research questions were analyzed: 1.What is the appropriate way to design a supply chain according to environmentally-oriented requirements of customers? 2.What is the impact of customer´s behavior regarding both usage and return of products on supply chain design decisions in an environmentally conscious closed-loop supply chain environment? Therefore, three different optimization models with various main aspects are developed. To illustrate how the presented models can be applied in practical problem cases, guidelines for implementing an environmentally supply chain design project are presented. / Das Thema Nachhaltigkeit stellt für eine Vielzahl von Unternehmen eine der Kernherausforderungen in der heutigen Zeit dar. Aufgrund der ökonomischen, ökologischen und sozialen Dimensionen, die in diesem Kontext zu beachten sind, nimmt die Komplexität von Unternehmensentscheidungen dramatisch zu. Besonders im Kontext des Supply Chain Managements, das nicht nur die unternehmensinternen Wertschöpfungsaktivitäten, sondern alle Prozesse der Produktentstehung über mehrere Akteure hinweg berücksichtigt, führt dies zu einer Zunahme an Parametern, die in die Planung einbezogen werden müssen. Neben anderen Treibern stellen Kundenanforderungen eine wesentliche Motivation zur nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Ausgestaltung von Supply Chains dar. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit liegt der Fokus auf der strategischen Planung von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Um die Wirkungszusammenhänge zwischen den zugrundeliegenden Planungsentscheidungen sowie möglichst alle relevanten Planungsparameter zu berücksichtigen, eignen sich mathematische Modelle zur Unterstützung von Entscheidungsträgern. Auf Basis von Literaturanalysen lassen sich jedoch nur wenige quantitative Ansätze in der Literatur identifizieren, die sich mit dem nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Supply Chain Design beschäftigen. Zudem kann eine Forschungslücke in der Berücksichtigung von Kundenanforderungen bei der strategischen Planung von nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Supply Chains festgestellt werden. Durch die Bearbeitung der folgenden Forschungsfragen, trägt die vorliegende Arbeit zur Schließung dieser Lücken bei: Wie können ökologieorientierte Kundenanforderungen bei der strategischen Planung von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken berücksichtigt werden? Wie beeinflusst das Kundenverhalten in Bezug auf die Nutzung und die Rückgabe von Produkten Supply Chain Design-Entscheidungen im Kontext eines ökologieorientierten closed-loop Wertschöpfungsnetzwerks? Zur Analyse der Forschungsfragen werden drei mathematische Supply Chain Design-Modelle entwickelt. Zudem werden Empfehlungen zur Anwendung von nachhaltigkeitsorientierten Supply Chain Design-Modellen in Praxisprojekte präsentiert.

Automation control is a new technology developed from a combination of mechanical, electrical, electronic and information. In Taiwan, regardless of the traditional manufacturing industries or the emerging high-technology industries, warehouses, equipments, production equipments required in the manufacturing aspects of value chain business are with the automation applications. However, in the industry, along with the internationalization and liberalization of the economy and the domestic manufacturing industry accelerating towards high value-added development, traditional distributors face considerable threats because of rapid development effect of the standardization of industrial products and more transparency of business information. The treats are: upstream supply sources are in the control of handful large domestic and foreign factories; the distributors are not unique to the downstream customers. Targeting at the hardship faced by the automated control equipment distributors, this study shall explore, from all angles of supply chain, ways in enhancing the operational performance of the automated control equipment distributors. To explore how the automated control equipment distributors, in the face of such severe competitive, use supply chain management to maintain the supply chain marketing order, establish partnership between the supply chain members, further understand that under this marketing order, how the operational performance of the automated control equipment distributors is improved. Through the interview records of the case companies, supplemented by the related domestic reference, the study sums up the constructive marketing order of automated control equipment and key factors of division of labor. The results of the three studies are presented as follows: 1. The information technology and communications technology advancement have enabled the upstream manufacturer to replace part of the automated control equipment distributors. 2.¡§Not to trust each other¡¨ and ¡§Not in harmonic marketing order¡¨ are the main reasons of vicious price competition of the distributors. Therefore, the distributors should pay attention to ¡§Reintermediary¡¨ by enhancing the differences with the upstream manufacturers and reducing the possibility of unbalance in production order. 3. Through the customers¡¦ satisfaction and feedback, they can accumulate customer knowledge and also increase the added value of themselves.

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Due to the development of business process reengineering¡]BPR¡^ and Internet, global logistics management and supply chain management¡]SCM¡^ have been unresistible trend for companies. Supply chain is a complex hierarchical network which links members from upstream to downstream industries. Enterprise can improve process through these linkages to cut down cost or shorten its response time to market. As the scope of inter-organizational activities enlarges, there exist many uncertainty factors in the supply chain network. The existence of such factor not only reduces the performance of supply chain as a whole but also the competitive advantage of individual companies in the supply chain. In other words, understanding and controlling SCM uncertainty factors will mitigate their deleterious impact. The concern of past research only addressed a single dimension of supply chain uncertainty, which is either focused upon production process on the manufacturing side or upon product characteristics on the demand side. This research proposed supply chain uncertainty constructs including demand, manufacturing, and supply aspects, which was based upon the perspective of leading company in a supply chain.This set of constructs was based upon literature survey and examination of focus group formed by academic and industry experts. Exploratory factor analysis was called upon to find out representative factors and correlation analysis was conducted to verify independence of the constructs. The research results indicated that channel, product characteristics, demand forcast, and demand change were included in demand uncertainty. Especially, the channel construct is the most representative one. In the supply aspect, supplier¡¦s ability, type of procurement, material characteristics and stable relationship with suppliers were included in supply uncertainty. Especially, the supplier¡¦s ability is the most representative. In the manufacturing aspect, product complexity, process complexity and engineering change were included in manufacturing uncertainty. Especially, the product complexity construct is the most representative one. This research has established supply chain uncertainty factors. It will be helpful for companies using this scale to evaluate their uncertainty situations. Comparision among heterogeneous industries is also possible because this scale can be applied to discover their differences.

Nowadays, due to the dynamic changes in global market, the enterprise¡¥s competition was not any more ¡§ enterprise to enterprise ¡§and will be ¡§supply chain to supply chain¡¨. Therefore, the visibility and efficiency of the supply chain management are more and more important under the global economic system. Under the globalization age of the knowledge economic, the knowledge will be quickly acquired and effectively control that is one of the route to create the value and to master the advantage of the competition for enterprise. The supply chain management how to integrate knowledge management has become an irresistible for the development of supply chain management Accordingly, this research intends to construct an relationship model for appling supply chain management to integrate knowledge and enterprise management performance. After that , then we analyzing the impact of supply chain management to integrate knowledge management on enterprise management performance by case study. According to the study, we find there will be more efficient for supply chain management when the enterprise applies supply chain management to integrate knowledge management. To use this model, the enterprise , customer and supplier will establish a good partnership and information sharing frame to response to customer requirement promptly. The enterprise will have a management performance. The supply chain management integrates knowledge management, besides improving the efficiency of supply chain management, also representing the value of knowledge management.

Zugl.: Regensburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2009.

Zugl.: Siegen, Univ., Diss., 2009

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität St. Gallen, 2003.