Supply Chain Management

How a Quality Initiative Changed -Whirlpool’s Supply Chain For over 30 years, Stanley Engineering Components (SEC), a division of the Stanley Works, had been manufacturing oven-door-latching mechanisms for the range-appliance industry. (The oven-door-latching mechanism locks an oven door during the self-cleaning cycle in both gas and electric ranges.) Its customers viewed SEC as a low-cost supplier of customer-designed stamped metal …

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The Impact of Technology State-or-the-art software has had a significant impact on the overall management of the supply chain. These software packages. in combination with network linkage- proxy indeed by the Internet; allow each of the organizations within a supply chain to share information on a real-rime basis. Knowing the actual demand a-, it occurs allows each of …

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TRUCKS KEEP INVENTORIES ROLLING PAST WAREHOUSES TO PRODUCTION LINES It seems warehouses have grown wheels  Called “rolling inventories, n trucks have become the place of choice for just-in-time stockpiles. Eighteen wheelers  pull-up to factory loading docks to deliver parts go almost immediately onto production lines, bypassing  the warehouses “,’Companies now precisely plan their need of inventory so that [intermediate] …

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The Role of Logistics in the Supply Chain The continued emphasis on globalization with respect to both suppliers and customers ha caused the supply chain to become longer in terms of time and distance, As a consequence, the logistics associated with both the delivery of raw material and component to the company and the delivery of finished …

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VOLKSWAGEN BUILDS  A DIFFERENT KIND OF ASSEMBLY PLANT IN BRAZIL In November 1996, Volkswagen began operations at its new truck and bus assembly plant in Re•sende, Brazil. Unlike any other automotive assembly plant in the world,  this facility has suppliers’ personnel working side by side with VW’s workers. This latest advancement in supply chain management is …

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