Supplier Performance Evaluation and Selection on Apple Agro-Industry

Understanding supplier performance is very vital to ensuring a well-functioning of apple agro-industry supply chain network. It will help the process of potential supplier sevaluation and selection, it is also improving both the performance of firms and its suppliers. The purposes of this research are to evaluate the performance and select the potential of apple supplier. The results of this study are as follows: categories (drivers) priority for the evaluation of apple supplier performance are price (0.406), quality (0.335), delivery (0.130) and services (0.070). Based on that categories, the selection of potential of apple supplier sequentially areSupplier A (0.429), Supplier C (0,316), Supplier D (0.129) and Supplier B (0.125). Hopefully, the apple agro-industry can determine the best of suppliers in fulfilling their raw material

A Research on Supply Chain Integration Strategy Based on Virtual Value Net

Abstract. The supply chain is a dynamic and integrated system in which all enterprises are integrated to obtain optimization of the whole chain. Integration is a process of redefining and connecting parts of a whole in order to form a new one. In traditional supply chain integration, the definitions of parts are usually limited by the boundary of the enterprises: the integration emphasizes connecting each enterprise with logistics and information communications. This paper proposes a theory of a Virtual Value Net in which a supply chain as a whole system consists of three nets: logistics net, information resource net and organization net. The supply chain integration involves how to construct and coordinate these nets and their nodes, so as to provide business value to the final customers, and be adaptable to business and technology changes. This paper presents a method by which supply chain integration solution is designed, improved and evaluated. The method takes more care about the business processes of the whole supply chain in which the organizations' boundaries are regarded as transparent, activities in business processes are selected and organized as business components, logistics flow and information flow are analyzed and optimized according to the integration degrees of business components. In addition, a comprehensive method on designation, evaluation and improvement of supply chain integration will also be provided

The adoption of lean techniques to optimise the on-shelf availability of products and drive business performance in the food industry: a South African manufacturing and retail case study

Includes bibliographical references.The degree of sustaining business performance, while maintaining competitive costs, satisfied consumers and customers has become more difficult and harder to achieve. To date, both retailers and manufacturers are economically challenged as they enter into a new age and era that is characterised by a restructuring of the supply and demand known today, the one in which the consumer demand chain will both lead and direct all organisational processes. The greatest challenge in manufacturing and retail supply chains today continue to be the inconsistency of product availability. Both retailers and their manufacturers frequently find themselves in positions where they either have too much stock of specific stock-keeping units (SKUs) or insufficient stock levels of a particular SKU, Steve (2010). Retailers and their suppliers both seek to avoid the costly out-of-stock (OOS) situations, which result in lost revenue opportunity for both parties. OOS can also damage shopper loyalty as frustrated consumers might seek out alternative retailers for the same merchandise, while on the other hand suppliers' brand loyalty can be impacted if a competitor's product is substituted instead. It remains true that the two pillars of business, namely demand and supply, still rule. Traditionally, putting supply before demand, with its implied precedence, was the correct approach to apply, but in today's business environment, there is a major shift taking place, predominantly driven by the cycles in globalisation that would be faster than in the traditional way, oversupply in the fast -moving consumer goods industry, a parallel loss of pricing power, consumers with a twenty-four hours access to precise pricing information, which terminates the power of information scarcity, and shorter product life cycles. The global economic crash that represented a global economic storm led many organisations to rethink the manner in which organisations are led. A consensus exists among many authors and commentators that the emerging economic order has imposed changes to the very way companies are doing business

Nachhaltigkeitsorientierte Analyse von Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken am Beispiel Kameruns: Ein Beitrag zur nachhaltigen Integration Kameruns in die Weltwirtschaft

The present work deals with the issue of business logistic and production management. This topic is of great interest in the context of discussions on sustainable strategies of globally acting enterprises or enterprise networks as well as states and regional authorities. It is a rethinking of value added networks and the assignment of supply chain processes, for example in the framework of a distributed production to geographical locations. The choice of Cameroon as study area is justified on the one hand by its geographical location, on the other hand by its great potential of raw materials and despite or even because of its characteristics as a developing Country. The work is divided into seven chapters and includes an extensive list of references. The information basis necessary for this work was obtained, in addition to literature review, through own interviews in Germany and in Cameroon as well as temporary collaboration in German-Cameroonian DAAD-Project for the intensification of logistic understanding and logistic education in Cameroon. This was followed by the comparative analysis in order to make a correlation between different cases and circumstances, and subsequently to propose a solution. In addition, a SWOT analysis was performed. It is an evaluation method for detecting strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and risks. Finally, models were developed in order to solve the problem in the reality with illustrations. In the context of current scientific discussion in the operational logistics and transportation industry as well as the production management under consideration of the relevance of the sustainability-related inclusions of developing countries in international value added networks, four essential results were worked out. These results are related to a sustainability-driven redesign of the value chains for a sustainable integration into the world economy of a developing country as Cameroon. Four action recommendations are derived from these results for increasing the production and regional service attractiveness. Particularly noteworthy are the considerations for sustainability-driven redesign of the value chains in the agra-tech sector and in the high-tech sector. In the context of a Cameroonian proverb that says: When elephants fight against hippopotamus, small animals should worry for their lives! , the entire work appears as a new analysis of business logistics, transport and production industry, taking into account the importance of sustainability with the inclusion of developing countries in international value-added networks