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Efficiency Issues in Supply Chain Management


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1 Department of Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
2 Department of Business Administration, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
     

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This paper discusses the efficiency issues in purchasing, manufacturing, and transporting over various stages of a supply chain such as supplier selection, production, and distribution. To address the efficiency questions, we group the supply chain into six independent areas. Four of these, vendor management, scheduling, inventory management, and transportation, are related to the product flow, whereas network design and information sharing are non-flow related.

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Efficiency, Supply Chain Management.
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Authors

S. K. Bhatt
Department of Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
C. R. Bector
Department of Business Administration, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
S. S. Appadoo
Department of Supply Chain Management, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Abstract


This paper discusses the efficiency issues in purchasing, manufacturing, and transporting over various stages of a supply chain such as supplier selection, production, and distribution. To address the efficiency questions, we group the supply chain into six independent areas. Four of these, vendor management, scheduling, inventory management, and transportation, are related to the product flow, whereas network design and information sharing are non-flow related.

Keywords


Efficiency, Supply Chain Management.

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