Moving targets: ensuring effective supply chain operations requires keeping track of constantly shifting performance benchmarks

Article Abstract:

Manufacturers of mass-produced products must ensure that they can deliver their goods at the right time and in right quantities. The critical factor in the supply chain is management of information, with delivery now regarded as a subsidiary function. Alex Macdonald, a management consultant, believes that the old, rigid linear commutation chain is becoming obsolete and is being replaced by a virtual supply chain that allows manufacturers to monitor and manage the whole network from production through to delivery of finished goods.

Management, Products, Distribution, Inventory control

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Moving seats

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Nissan's manufacturing plant in Washington, Tyne and Wear sends a message to the company's six 'synchorus suppliers' for their share of the materials to be fitted in the car. One of these supplier is situated just a mile away, Ikeda Hoover. The company, which is a collaboraation between Japenese firm Ikeda Buson and the Hoover subsidiary of the US-owned Johnson Controls, supplies all the seats used in the Primeras and Micras produced at Washington.

United Kingdom, Production management, Nissan Motor Company Ltd.

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Changing channels: Software suppliers are gearing up to make the Internet the medium for supply chain communications

Article Abstract:

The area of supply chain management has changed dramatically during the past decade, and the role of software in such operations will become increasingly pivotal. The Internet presents opportunities for cheap, standardized communications, and software suppliers are increasingly using the new catchphrase 'web enabled'.

Usage, Purchasing, Software, Internet

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