Strategic
partnership: collaboration, alliances & the coordination
spectrum
JAMES
B. RICE JR., Director MIT Integrated Supply Chain Management
Programme and DR. STEFANO RONCHI, Politecnico di Milano
LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS ISSUE 1 2002 / 22
The
increasing market turbulence and competition (in terms of quality,
cost and service level), the reduction in product life cycles, the
increased variety of products, and services and technology evolution
have lead companies to search for higher flexibility, in terms of
mix, volume, products and technologies. Because of the difficulty to
develop and manage all these different technologies and competencies,
many organizations have redesigned their another company could be
better suited to perform that task simply because of its
location,its resources, its expertise, its ability to exploit
economies of scale, and/or its ability to bear risk thus reducing
costs.
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Controlling
of the Business-Process „Supply with Spare Parts“
Thomas
Benesch, Georg Ortner, Graz University of Technology Institute of
Industrial Economics and Management Science
In the
first part of the article the various functions of performance
indices concerning the planning and administration of an efficient
and effective spare part supply system are described and explained.
Furthermore three specific performance indices are determined. The
second part investigates and analyses the question and the
possibility wether these performance indices can be applied to and
generated in the plant of the BMW Rolls-Royce GmbH in Oberusel (Germany).
In the third part of the article the concept of a relational data
model, that is realised with the help of a data base system, is
presented.
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The
Impact of Centralised Distribution on Distributors and Agents
Edward
Sweeney & Randal Faulkner (NITL)
NITL
conducted a study to understand the impact of centralised
distribution on distributors and agents. In relation to this study,
while the principle of centraliseddistribution applies to multiples
in different retail sectors, and its impact is felt by many parts of
the retail supply chain, the scope of this article is confined to:
The
food sector only ; Centralised distribution by the grocery multiples,
by which we mean Tesco, Musgraves, Dunnes, Superquinn and others as
they enter the market; Its impact on distributors and agents.
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