Supply chain management is an organizational function that is critically important for organizational performance in today’s global business environment. Organizations are formulating various strategies to enhance supply chain performance and are continually seeking ways to gain a competitive advantage. This paper explores three widely acclaimed strategies: Lean, Agile and Demand-Driven approac...

Nowadays, companies are struggling to find an appropriate supply chain strategy to achieve competitiveness. Among the available strategies lean, green and resilient are considered as a new management strategies for the supply chain management to achieve competitiveness. The major issues with theses strategies are the integration and identification of critical issues related to the strategies. T...

Supply chain management has two streams of strategies, namely lean and agile. However, current RFID applications tend to overlook supply chain strategies and are designed for obvious RFID applications, like simply replacing barcodes. However, the full potential of RFID might not be achieved when RFID applications are not aligned with the supply chain strategies. Therefore, this study analyzes t...

Authors michail heinmann · visionary officer marco Klein · sCm Consultant ©2011 Camelot management Consultants 3 Preface the challenge of managing a multi-stage supply chain will be familiar to many process industry companies. Implementers of mrP II in the 1980s and early 1990s found that the proposed approaches, whilst possibly sufficient for handling simple supply chains involving a single pl...

Recent industry trends, including outsourcing, offshoring and lean manufacturing that focus on reducing supply chain costs, significantly increase the level of risk in the supply chain. At the same time, a number of leading companies have been successfully transforming their supply chains into robust and resilient supply chains. In this presentation, we examine sources of risks in the supply ch...

Changing market environment, global competition, rapidly fluctuating customer demands and more complex global network of supply chains require new production conceptions (Pull, Lean) and technologies. Novel supply chain paradigms (1. Lean-, 2. Agile-, 3. Leagile Supply Chain) are forms in order to increase and maintain competitiveness of companies. New organization and cooperation forms are for...