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| The Development of a Systematic Framework for Supply Chain Alignment |
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Context The campaign to eliminate waste in supply chains has created a culture of "leanness" in a number of sectors, particularly automotive. It is not clear that a lean supply chain can respond quickly to customer demands or can be innovative in its processes and products Aims 1. To classify supply chains in terms of responsiveness and efficiency and to link this to market uncertainty in terms of functionality or innovation of the products. 2. To redefine the concept of "waste" and determine both the role of waste and whether it is inevitable in certain types of supply chain 3. To determine whether there are intuitive mechanisms that tend to adapt supply chains naturally to become responsive or functionally efficient 4. To use transaction analysis to determine if certain types of transaction tend to occur in responsive as opposed to functionally efficient supply chains To disseminate the research findings via two workshops, a web site and a book Method Interactions within supply chains and the approaches adopted to eliminate waste will be analysed and used to characterise the supply chains in terms of efficiency and responsiveness. Appropriate attitudes to waste to suit key aspects of the market, products and technology of members of the supply chain will be determined. Benefits Greater understanding of the optimum properties of supply chains for markets that value innovation, responsiveness or cost efficiency. Appropriate performance measures for these types of supply chain. Participants University of Liverpool Loughborough University Ford Motor Company Dunlop Morris Materials Handling Pillsbury Europe Seaforth Corn Mills Leatherhead Food Research Association Giddings & Lewis |
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