A Taxonomy of Supply Chain Collaboration

Supply chain collaboration has emerged as an important cooperative strategy leading to new focus on interorganisational boundaries as the determinants of performance. Although collaboration increasingly receives great attention both from practitioners and academics, relatively little attention has been given to systematically reviewing the research literature that has appeared about supply chain collaboration. The purpose of this paper is to examine previous studies on supply chain collaboration based on a taxonomy. The proposed taxonomy is composed of four different research streams of describing specific subjects of interorganisational settings, namely information sharing, business processes, incentive schemes, and performance systems. The analysis includes the assessment of research ideas and key findings. Results show the great variability of key concepts across the four components of the taxonomy and an increased awareness of complementarity amongst research streams. Several recommendations for future research are also identified in this paper

How Does Collaborative Inventory Management Make Progress?

Collaborative inventory management (CIM) has revolutionized electronics, textile, apparel, and grocery industries. An intriguing question is how far does the movement of CIM challenge the traditional practice of inventory management? This paper illustrates how to expose and challenge flawed assumptions of traditional inventory management. It also proposes a collaborative replenishment process that consists of a cyclic process of tactical planning, execution, and control. The proposed scheme makes it possible for the chain members to apply collaborative inventory management. The paper also outlines directions for future research

How Ambiguous is the Structural Ambiguity

A word, phrase, or sentence is ambiguous if it has more than one meaning. The ambiguity, however, can be noticed if one really has a linguistic knowledge on how to analyze the phrase or sentence. Of the two kinds of ambiguity, lexical and structural, the latter is the one which is explored further in this paper. Structural ambiguity occurs when a phrase or sentence has more than one underlying structure. The phrase can be disambiguated by putting it in a sentence with some sort of formal signals which help the reader or hearer to recognize the sentence structure. Some of the signals include function words, inflections, affixes, stress, juncture, and punctuation. The rest of this paper discusses some types of structural ambiguity, how they differ, and some possible ways to resolve them

Rethinking Management of Technology

This paper discusess how management of technology can be made more critical and a new method of reasoning is incorporated into this dicsipline to stimulate more widely application. Management of technology is found as a discipline that practitioners or academics need to have in order to be able to manage and improve technology. It relies on two streams of reasoning called deduction and induction. These two reasoning methods tends to neglect the human need to make sense and therefore fails to stimulate critical thinking of how to extract meaning from complex reality surrounding technology. It is suggested that abduction is the missing link in managemet of technology which is capable to combine the predominant strands of induction and deduction. Based on abductive thinking, TechnoValue is developed as a methodology to gain understanding the general statements when and how new technology creates value to all related stakeholders. Future research is also presented in this paper

Collaboration In The Supply Chain of Road Safety System Division (RSSD) at Titan Indonesia to Improve Effectiveness and Efficiency Operational Performance

The purpose of this paper is to give the root cause and several strategies as a business solution to improve RSS division performance with creating a good business model and strategy of supply chain operation in terms of effectiveness and efficiency of business process division, to improve its operational performance in order to meet its customer needs and wants.Design/methodology/approach – By using The Porter’s 5 Forces analysis to examine the fundamental characteristics and structures. Five forces model of Porter is a framework for evaluating the industrial structure (business threats and opportunities) according to: the effects of rivalry, threat of entry, supplier’s power, buyer’s power, and threat of substitutes. The business issues exploration will be carried out by reviewing inbound supply chain, outbound supply chain, and business process. The root cause analysis of this case study was carried out to illustrate the applicabalityt of the framework.Findings –The findings show that adoption of collaboration in supply chain concept facilitates the chain members to have a broader view to develop and ensure an effective collaboration.Research limitations/implications –The analysis would only cover the time period of 2010 to 2012 as the past data because of the age of the existing division; The analysis only covers in-depth operational performance optimization strategy related to business channels performance that affects the RSSD profitability. Practical implications – The concept of Supply Chain Collaboration can be used by the chain members in the discussion forum to (re)design appropriate settings of the five elements of the architecture that lead to better overall performance.Keywords: Collaborative Supply Chain System, Information Sharing, Incentive Alignment, Decision Synchronization, and Innovative Suply Chain Processes. Â

An Analysis of Inventory Management at DAMN!I LOVE INDONESIA

Damn! I love Indonesia is a company engaged in fashion industry. It is a local clothing brand in Indonesia with Indonesian culture as a themed. They package the Indonesian culture with a modern or urban way. Damn! I love Indonesia’s goal is to ignite the nationality and to embrace our identity. Besides that, this company purpose is to bring young generation to love and recognize Indonesian culture, as well as to recall the history of Indonesia. This company vision is to grow the sense of pride, love, spirit and patriotism of young generation of our country, and to ignite their nationalism, while the mission is to be a leading and a largest Indonesia urban brand in clothing and accessories industry. In running the business, Damn! I love Indonesia uses T-shirt as the main product to raise the sales. Compared to other product in Damn! I love Indonesia, T-shirt have the largest proportion about 70% of total sales. However, the existence of T-shirt is very important for Damn! I love Indonesia. At this time, Damn! I love Indonesia face the problem that deals with inventory management of T-shirt. This research is aimed for reviewing business process, finding the root cause of the problem occurred in Damn! I love Indonesia and create a solution map. Business process is used for identifying all the process that is been done in Damn! I love Indonesia. By describing each process, root causes of the problem can be made and analysed. There are four root causes occur in Damn! I love Indonesia. Those root cause are no market intelligence, promotion is not aligned to forecast, inaccurate forecast method, and vendor cannot fulfil order expectation. To solve those problems, there are some proposed solutions given. Those solutions made in form of solution map. The first solution is improving the market intelligence. Next problem can be solved by share promotion plan with production division. Using appropriate forecasting method and combine with subjective prediction will be the next solution. The last is making a new timeline and regulation for a vendor. Keywords: Inventory Management, Forecasting, Business Process, Root Cause Analysis, Solution Map, Damn! I love Indonesia, T-shirt

Motivasi Orangtua Beragama Muslim Menyekolahkan Anak di Sekolah Dasar (SD) Kalam KUDUS Pekanbaru

Education is one thing that is needed in todays modern times. Education consists of three kinds of formal, informal and non formal. Formal education is one of the fundamental things that must be taken by all children in Indonesia in accordance with the national education goals is for the intellectual life of the nation. In general, parents want their children to be smart and can be a source of pride for the family. In elections where his sosn was educated parents consider good schools and is considered to be able to educate their children well. Given the many standing in Pekanbaru international schools, religious schools, private schools and public schools. Muslim religious parent who prefer to send their children to primary school Kalam Kudus is one private school based on the teachings of religion is protestant Christianity. Therefor, the formulation of the problem in this research are : 1. What motivation causes parents who send their children to religious muslim kalam kudus elementary school ? 2. How socio cultural background of muslim parents who send their children to kalam kudus elementary school ? Subjects in this study were religious muslim parents who send their children kalam kudus elementary school in pekanbaru as many as five people. The method in this study ia qualitative research method, namely the outlines of the interview respondents. The results of this study is the motivation of parents who send their children to religious muslim kalam kudus elementary school is comprised of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation that parents want their children to be a smart kid and has a lot of knowledge and because elementary school is one of the holy word of school discipline and have the quality and the quality is very good whereas extrinsic motivation is that the distance is not to far away from school and wants to raise the degree of their social status. Socio cultural backgrouns of muslim parents who are different rom one another, and every parents wants only the besr for their childrens education. Keyword : Motivation Parents, Education, Religio

Managerial Views of Supply Chain Collaboration: An Empirical Study

  This paper is carried out to empirically examine managerial perceptions on the relationship between supply chain collaboration practice and operational performance. The framework suggests that collaborative practice is characterised by three distinct factors: (1) decision synchronisation, (2) information sharing, and (3) incentive alignment, which enable the chain members to effectively match supply with customer demand. An important question is whether or not collaborative practice leads to better operational performance. A survey research was employed to assess the relationship between collaborative practice and operational performance of New Zealand companies. The survey results show significant positive impacts of key factors of collaborative practice on operational performance. The findings suggest that information sharing, decision synchronisation, and incentive alignment are important determinants of operational performance. This study demonstrates that the chain members need to understand the role of different key factors of collaborative practice that can be redesigned to leverage operational performance