International Journal of Operations & Production Management: Volume 19 Issue 10

Proven Alternative to MRPII for Optimizing Supply Chain Performance

Paul Walley

Manufacturer selection and price negotiation for competitive wholesale distribution operations

Chandrasekhar Das, Rajesh Tyagi

This paper considers a new class of problems arising in the distribution side of supply chains. It considers cooperative market expansion and price negotiation by wholesalers and…

The dynamics of consumer response A quest for the attractors of supply chain demand

Jan Holmström, Ari‐Pekka Hameri

The paper shows that it is possible to reconstruct the dynamical attractors of demand at different levels of the supply chain by using time series duplication and techniques for…

An empirical study of time‐based competition in the North American automotive supplier industry

Jayanth Jayaram, Shawnee K. Vickery, Cornelia Droge

The importance of responding to time‐based competitive pressures has prompted US manufacturers to emphasize time‐based performance and deploy strategic action programs aimed at…

Supply chain management: an empirical study of its impact on performance

Keah‐Choon Tan, Vijay R. Kannan, Robert B. Handfield, Soumen Ghosh

Total quality management, supply base management, customer driven corporate policy, and other elements of supply chain management are frequently cited as strategic options to…

The impact of routing and storage policies on warehouse efficiency

Charles G. Petersen

Order picking, the activity by which a number of goods are retrieved from a warehousing system to satisfy a number of customer orders, is an essential link in the supply chain and…

Flexible kanban system

Surendra M. Gupta, Yousef A.Y. Al‐Turki, Ronald F. Perry

Just‐in‐time (JIT) systems were originally designed for deterministic production environments such as constant processing times and smooth and stable demand. However, once…