Various strategies of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) have been developed to improve companies’ entire business process. From a more systematic viewpoint, these systems should be further organised under a unified value-added process, which covers all activities of a supply chain. Based on this understanding, a so-called business process reengineering system (BPRS) was proposed and develope...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Teemu Tynjälä Name of the doctoral dissertation An Effective Tool for Supply Chain Decision Support during New Product Development Process Publisher School of Science Unit Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 73/2011 Field of research Industrial M...

a supply chain is composed of a complex sequence of processing stages, ranging from raw materials supplies, parts manufacturing, components and end-products assembling, to the delivery of end products. in the context of supply chain management, supplier selection decision is considered one of the key issues faced by operations and purchasing managers to remain competitive. therefore, requiremen...

Efficient management of supply chain (SC) requires systematic considerations of miscellaneous issues in its comprehensive version. In this paper, a multi-periodic structure is developed for a supply chain network design (SCND) involving suppliers, factories, distribution centers (DCs), and retailers. The nature of the logistic decisions is tactical that encompasses procurement of raw materials ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a tracking technology that enables firms to digitize their supply chain processes and manage their supply chain activities efficiently and effectively. This study develops an analytical model of the impact of RFID use on inventory accuracy and on the firm-level and supply chain-level performance of a single product line. Due to the complexity of the anal...

Alliedsignal Aerospace committed to disciplined corporate-wide sofnvae process improvement in 1992 using the Sofnare Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Software Capability A4aturity Model (CM&@ This paper describes the approach taken by AlliedSignal and the results achieved. The improvement initiative covers all software development and maintenance activities in product development that a#ect the qu...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economical performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, gre...

Supply chain quality is the assurance of product quality in its full life-cycle. Although supply chain quality control is a hot topic among researchers, supply chain quality prediction is actually an important but unsolved problem in manufacturing industry. In this paper, an approach of manufacturing supply chain quality prediction based on quality satisfaction degree is proposed to control sup...

This paper addresses the effects of ambient exposure of a polycrystalline Au electrode prior to making contact with the hole-transport material N,N 0-diphenyl-N,N 0-bis (1-naphthyl)-1,1 0-biphenyl-4,4 0-diamine (a-NPD). Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy (UPS) and current–voltage (I–V) measurements are used to investigate the resulting hole barrier and charge injection characteristics. UPS ...