Supply Chain Management: Volume 7 Issue 3

The re‐engineering of Hewlett‐Packard’s CD‐RW supply chain

Todd Hammel, Tom Phelps, Dorothea Kuettner

Technological innovation is a major driver in the consumer electronics industry, bringing consumers exciting new products more quickly and at lower cost than ever before. However…

Managers in supply chain management, the critical dimension

Remko I. van Hoek, Robina Chatham, Richard Wilding

Attracting and educating the right supply chain managers are a critical challenge to the realization of most supply chain objectives irrespective of the state of the economy…

Supplier selection problem: a comparison of the total cost of ownership and analytic hierarchy process approaches

Khurrum S. Bhutta, Faizul Huq

Supplier selection and evaluation are arguably one of the most critical functions for the success of an organization. Several approaches exist in the literature to objectively…

Collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment: new solutions needed for mass collaboration

Jan Holmström, Kary Främling, Riikka Kaipia, Juha Saranen

The challenge faced by supplier companies in the grocery supply chain for implementing collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) is how to get the retailer to…

The implementation and impact of operations strategies in fast‐moving supply systems

Robert Lowson

This paper provides an empirical contribution to the debate concerning the implementation and impact of operations strategies. Their nature is described, as is the necessity for…

Diagnosis and reduction of bullwhip in supply chains

Peter McCullen, Denis Towill

“Bullwhip” describes the general tendency for small changes in end‐customer demand to be amplified within a production‐distribution system. A 10 per cent increase in sales to…