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MARCH 30, 2023

It highlights the importance, opportunities, and potential trade-offs associated with circular supply chains for electronic devices in a way that makes it easier for decision makers to understand and navigate the circular transformation.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The second case is entitled IKEA Goes Online: Implications for its Manufacturing (authors: Jan Olhager and Kasra Ferdows). It “explores the evolution of Nike’s efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories”, addressing several key supply chain challenges.

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JANUARY 13, 2023

The “No-Excuse” Framework to Accelerate the Path to Net-Zero Manufacturing and Value Chains is a new white paper that aims to provide businesses with the information they need to operationalize their commitments to reducing carbon emissions and addressing the climate crisis.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Focusing on value chains that produce manufactured goods, this research explores their exposure to shocks, their vulnerabilities, and their expected financial losses. They also write: “Intricate supplier networks that span the globe can deliver with great efficiency, but they may contain hidden vulnerabilities. Even before the COVID?19

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

BBC Newsnight has recently reported on how Brexit could break that chain and what the consequences could be for manufacturers. The United Kingdom has been one of the key links in EU supply chains for more than 40 years. I like the video and have used it for my Supply Chain Risk Management course to discuss this topic with my students.

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APRIL 23, 2018

2014): Financialization across the Pacific: Manufacturing Cost Ratios, Supply Chains and Power. Financialization across the Pacific: Manufacturing Cost Ratios, Supply Chains and Power. One of these articles is Froud et al. Leaver, A., & William, K.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

The report explicitly takes a supply chain perspective: “From tobacco cultivation and curing, to cigarette manufacturing, distribution, consumption and discarding, every stage in the global tobacco supply chain involves considerable resource inputs, and results in the production of wastes and emissions.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, which starts with just this question. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 14 (2), 166-169 DOI: 10.1287/msom.1110.0375. “What is interesting research?” To have an impact, research also needs to be important. Cachon, G.P.

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AUGUST 6, 2018

Second, manufacturing in high-wage countries is becoming increasingly profitable due to recent advances in robotics. First, the model is based on arbitrage; however, the economic success of emerging countries has led to an increase in labor costs.

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JUNE 29, 2019

But there are even more SCM journals with an impact factor around 2: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2.667; +0.9), Operations Research (2.604; +0.3), International Journal of Logistics Management (2.226; +0.5), Production and Operations Management (2.171; +0.4) and Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management (3.089; ?0.6).

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Second, the article The Competitive Determinants of a Firm’s Environmental Management Activities: Evidence from US Manufacturing Industries by Hofer, Cantor and Dai has won the Journal of Operations Management Jack Meredith Best Paper Award. Finally, the judges for the 2012 Harold E. Decision Sciences, 43 (2), 303-339 DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00345.x.

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DECEMBER 26, 2013

The case has confused consumers and influenced their shopping behaviors in the important winter season.

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JUNE 25, 2016

and 2 are: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. Journals with an impact factor between 2 and 2.5 Journals with an impact factor between 1.5 Among the journals with an impact factor between 1 and 1.5 is: Decision Sciences.

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JUNE 25, 2016

and 2 are: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. Journals with an impact factor between 2 and 2.5 Journals with an impact factor between 1.5 Among the journals with an impact factor between 1 and 1.5 is: Decision Sciences.

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Journal Supply Chain Manufacturing Procurement SCM 169

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

What is the role of contract manufacturers? Questions we discuss include: Who is actually producing our computers? Where does value creation take place? Who is governing the computer supply chain? Why is final assembly being done in China and not in the EU or Canada?

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JUNE 11, 2012

It may be cheaper to manufacture at home. A real option is “a right – without an obligation – to invest resources (e.g., labor, money, time) toward a course of action at a future point in time” ( McCarter et al., SCM applications of real options are scarce. & Trigeorgis, L. Harvard Business Review, 88 (10), 84-87.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2013

In response, brands like H&M and C&A halted manufacturing of items containing Angora wool. Last week, a shocking video, created by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), was published. The images cast a dark shadow over global garment supply chains.

Manufacturing Procurement 127

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JANUARY 20, 2012

As China is in transition towards high-value add manufacturing, firms need to rethink the strategy of their manufacturing footprints. Supply chain managers will continue to face volatility and uncertainty , also in China, but the new study demonstrates that managers can seize the opportunity right now.

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MAY 22, 2014

When we talk about supply chain management, we often intuitively take the perspective of the manufacturing industry.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Wolfgang Lehmacher is Head of Supply Chain and Transport Industries at the World Economic Forum.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

and Myra Louise Professor of Manufacturing Management at Indiana University, United States. Brian Fugate is the Oren Harris Chair in Transportation, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas, United States. Barbara Flynn is the Richard M. Fugate, B., & Flynn, B.

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OCTOBER 16, 2016

and Myra Louise Professor of Manufacturing Management at Indiana University, United States. Brian Fugate is the Oren Harris Chair in Transportation, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Arkansas, United States. Barbara Flynn is the Richard M. Fugate, B., & Flynn, B.

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MAY 1, 2012

Last week, I was invited to beautiful Switzerland, where I held a seminar for supply chain managers from 30 large logistics service providers and manufacturing firms. Initially, these managers were asked about SCM topics they are currently most interested in.

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JANUARY 21, 2013

Besides, around 80% of the environmental impacts of products are not in the manufacturer’s realms but in their supply chain. The ideal question for suppliers is: “Send me the environmental product declaration (EPD) of your product and your plan to radically improve it” After all, you are not buying the whole company.

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Supply Chain Planning Software Exercises Sustainability Supply Chain Planning 137

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DECEMBER 31, 2015

For example, Apple has focused on R&D and marketing but outsourced production to contract manufacturers – a typical smiling curve ! First, analyzing customer data could become the new core competency. Many companies already got rid of non-core processes.

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JUNE 24, 2021

The following OSCM journals were given a grade of 3: Decision Sciences , International Journal of Production Economics , Journal of Business Logistics , Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management , Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and Supply Chain Management: An International Journal.

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JANUARY 30, 2012

Particularly, the article confirms my suspicion that there is “shortage of studies conducted on the supply chain as a network of enterprises “ Instead, most research turns out to focus on a single enterprise or on the relationships of a single enterprise with its suppliers or customers.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

In the first Fairphone that will be released in December 2013, conflict-free tin and tantalum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been integrated in the manufacturing of the phone, but that’s only a first step. To do so, we are searching for solutions by engaging in partnerships to come with alternatives to current models.

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