This case study was completed by the Siemens IA & DT (Industrial Technology and Drive Technologies) Divisions. These divisions focus on providing state-of-theart solutions for electronic manufacturing and process industries. As the leading provider of industry software, they optimize entire value-added chains of manufacturing companies—from product design and development to production, sales, a...

China has undergone remarkable economic growth spearheaded by industrialization. Chinese industry demands a wide variety of raw materials in increasing amounts in order to manufacture all kinds of products. Industrial demand exceeds domestic supply for several materials. Thus, China needs to import raw materials. In order to satisfy its needs, China has developed global supply chains, which lin...

Purpose This impact pathways paper proposes that operations and supply chain management (OSCM) can help to ensure the transition from a high-carbon low-carbon fashion industry takes place in just, inclusive fair way. By immersion brands, suppliers workers' realities across multiple chains, authors identify challenges issues related just transitions, whilst proposing research inspire future OSCM...

Manufacturers are establishing smaller supplier network for enhanced cooperation, developmental efficiency and specialization. However, it limits manufacturing flexibility manifested by supplier capacity, disruptive events and customer attitudes. Methodology for modeling flexible assembler-suppliers relationships to manage supply chains in emerging markets is described. Supplier database, decis...

Wal-Mart is a giant in the grocery industry and its influence is growing at a rapid pace. Despite Wal-Mart’s success with Everyday Low Pricing (EDLP), there is little to no evidence to suggest that other supermarket chains wish to follow a similar path. Why? This research addresses this question.