To gain cost advantage and market share, many firms implemented various initiatives such
as outsourced manufacturing and product variety. These initiatives are effective in a stable …

This paper is a review of research in product development, which we define as the
transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. Our review is broad …

Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical
techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a conceptual framework on resilience types
in supply chain networks. Design/methodology/approach Using a complex adaptive systems …

A great challenge facing industry today is managing variety throughout the entire products
life cycle. Drivers of products variety, its benefits, pre-requisites and associated complexity …

Assembly is the capstone process for product realization where component parts and
subassemblies are integrated together to form the final products. As product variety …

“Supply Chain Risk Management is an issue that many companies face and yet few
companies know how to deal with it in a systematic and pragmatic manner. While avoiding …

Inventory turnover varies widely across retailers and over time. This variation undermines
the usefulness of inventory turnover in performance analysis, benchmarking, and working …

Comprehensively teaches the fundamentals of supply chain theory This book presents the
methodology and foundations of supply chain management and also demonstrates how …

Supply chain management is likely to play an important role in the digital economy. In this
paper, we first describe major issues in traditional supply chain management. Next, we focus …