Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to address the increasingly important question of supply chain design for global operations. With the rise of off-shore sourcing and the simultaneous need for improved responsiveness to customer demand, the choice of supply chain strategy is critical. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws its conclusions from case-based research supported b…
Purpose – To minimise business risk of incurring increased marketability and acquisition costs due to volatile demand exacerbated by the bullwhip phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the vision of the seamless supply chain and the active support of the decision support system exploiting the automatic pipeline inventory and order based production control system (APIOBPCS) a…