Integrating product design into the supply chain

Integrating Business Sustainability into Supply Chain Management

Companies today face the challenge of adopting proper supply chain sustainability (SCS) strategies and practices to respond effectively to emerging global sustainability initiatives. Business sustainability has become a strategic imperative, with a focus on both financial and non-financial sustainability performance, which creates shared value for all stakeholders. This paper examines the integ...

Integrating China into Your Global Supply Chain

A decision support system for integrating manufacturing and product design into the reconfiguration of the supply chain networks

Available online 23 November 2011

Integrating Product Lifecycle Management and the Supply Chain

Today, companies realize the importance of involving the global supplier network early in the product development cycle. This involvement can begin as early as the conceptualization stage and continue across the design, production, distribution, and service phases—the entire product lifecycle. This implies that product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain management (SCM) can no longer b...

Integrating the Supply Chain

The Scope of the Supply Chain The role of manufacturing industry is to create wealth by adding value and selling products. Common to all manufacturing companies is the need to control the flow of material from suppliers, through the value adding processes and distribution channels, to customers. The supply chain, as shown in Figure 1, is the connected series of activities which is concerned wit...