Increasing the Resiliency of Local Supply Chain Distribution Networks against Multiple Hazards

2015 ◽  
pp. 87-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Nurre ◽  
Thomas Sharkey ◽  
John Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Multiple Hazards ◽  
Local Supply

scholarly journals Assessment of low-cost, non-electrically powered chlorination devices for gravity-driven membrane water kiosks in eastern Uganda

Waterlines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-106
Author(s):  
Lukas Dössegger ◽  
Alan Tournefier ◽  
Laura Germann ◽  
Nicola Gärtner ◽  
Timon Huonder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Membrane Filtration ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chain ◽  
User Friendliness ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Gravity Driven ◽  
Eastern Uganda

Recontamination during transport and storage is a common challenge of water supply in low-income settings, especially if water is collected manually. Chlorination is a strategy to reduce recontamination. We assessed seven low-cost, non-electrically powered chlorination devices in gravity-driven membrane filtration (GDM) kiosks in eastern Uganda: one floater, two in-line dosers, three end-line dosers (tap-attached), and one manual dispenser. The evaluation criteria were dosing consistency, user-friendliness, ease of maintenance, local supply chain, and cost. Achieving an adequate chlorine dosage (∼2 mg/L at the tap and ≥ 0.2 mg/L after 24 h of storage in a container) was challenging. The T-chlorinator was the most promising option for GDM kiosks: it achieved correct dosage (CD, 1.5–2.5 mg/L) with a probability of 90 per cent, was easy to use and maintain, economical, and can be made from locally available materials. The other in-line option, the chlorine-dosing bucket (40 per cent CD) still needs design improvements. The end-line options AkvoTur (67 per cent CD) and AquatabsFlo® (57 per cent CD) are easy to install and operate at the tap, but can be easily damaged in the GDM set-up. The Venturi doser (52 per cent CD) did not perform satisfactorily with flow rates > 6 L/min. The chlorine dispenser (52 per cent CD) was robust and user-friendly, but can only be recommended if users comply with chlorinating the water themselves. Establishing a sustainable supply chain for chlorine products was challenging. Where solid chlorine tablets were locally rarely available, the costs of liquid chlorine options were high (27–162 per cent of the water price).

Farm business financial performance in local foods value chains

2018 ◽  
Vol 78 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Clare Ahearn ◽  
Kathleen Liang ◽  
Stephan Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Food System ◽  
Choice Model ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Local Foods ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Local Supply

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify the factors associated with farm financial success for those farms known to produce for local supply chains. The analysis considers alternative measures of farm financial performance and considers the role of the local foods supply chain in the choice to market locally.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses a two-stage Heckman approach which addresses the possibility of sample selection bias. In the first stage, the choice model to engage in direct marketing is estimated. In the second stage, the authors estimate a model of the financial performance of those in the sample that direct marketed which includes an IMR term calculated from the parameters of the first stage equation. The analysis uses national farm-level data from the Agricultural and Resource Management Survey of the US Department of Agriculture and combines data from 2009 to 2012 to overcome the constraint of small samples.FindingsIndicators of the development of a local foods supply were positively related to the choice to engage in direct marketing. Factors affecting farm financial performance varied significantly between a short-term and a long-term measure. The results emphasize the importance of considering multiple outcome measures, developing local supply chains and provide implications about beginning farms.Originality/valueIf a local foods system is going to thrive, the farms that market the agricultural products in the local food system must attain a certain level of profitability. The value of the analysis is an improved understanding of the financial performance of farms producing for a small, but growing segment of the food supply chain.

scholarly journals Supply Chain Competition: A Market Game Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (12) ◽  
pp. 5648-5664 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gizem Korpeoglu ◽  
Ersin Körpeoğlu ◽  
Soo-Haeng Cho
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Operations Management ◽  
Wholesale Price ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Market Game ◽  
Wholesale Market ◽  
Supply Chain Competition ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Buyer Power

We study supply chains where multiple suppliers sell to multiple retailers through a wholesale market. In practice, we often observe that both suppliers and retailers tend to influence the wholesale market price that retailers pay to suppliers. However, existing models of supply chain competition do not capture retailers’ influence on the wholesale price (i.e., buyer power) and show that the wholesale price and the order quantity per retailer do not change with the number of retailers. To overcome this limitation, we develop a competition model based on the market game mechanism in which the wholesale price is determined based on both suppliers’ and retailers’ decisions. When taking into account retailers’ buyer power, we obtain the result that is consistent with the observed practice: As the number of retailers increases, each retailer’s buyer power decreases, and each retailer is willing to pay more for her order, so the wholesale price increases. In this case, supply chain expansion to include more retailers (or suppliers) turns out to be more beneficial in terms of supply chain efficiency than what the prior literature shows without considering buyer power. Finally, we analyze the integration of two local supply chains and show that although the profit of the integrated supply chain is greater than the sum of total profits of local supply chains, integration may reduce the total profit of firms in a retailer-oriented supply chain that has more retailers than suppliers. This paper was accepted by Charles Corbett, operations management.

SCALE-FREE CHARACTERISTICS OF SUPPLY CHAIN DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 841-848 ◽  
Author(s):  
HUIJUN SUN ◽  
JIANJUN WU
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Degree Distribution ◽  
Numerical Study ◽  
Distribution Network ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Empirical Theory ◽  
Scale Free ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
Free Theory

This paper is the first step to a study of supply chain distribution networks based on the scale-free theory, and we attempt to analyze the growth of supply chain distribution networks. We construct the supply chain distribution network and divide it into two groups. Through empirical theory and numerical study, it is found that supply chain networks have scale-free characteristics. Additionally, other three features of supply chain distribution network are proposed in this paper. Finally, the exponent of degree distribution is given.

scholarly journals Research on Supply Chain Efficiency in COVID-19: The Role of Information and Communications

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
R. S. Rogulin ◽  
R. S. Pavlyuk ◽  
N. R. Talitskikh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
National Level ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an integral part of our life. Currently, supply chain (SC) management is also in a digital transformation, especially during the period of disruptions in global and local supply chains caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The purpose of this study is to provide an empirical descriptive analysis of the role of digital technologies in improving the efficiency and recovery of SC in the pre-crisis period as well as in a pandemic. The research is based on the processing of statistical data and macroeconomic indicators that are freely available. The following are considered as basic indicators: Gross domestic product as a characteristic of the country's economic development level before the crisis; logistics efficiency index; digital life index. The authors have chosen few countries from different categories for the comparative analysis in the context of the selected assessment indicators The obtained study results confirmed the significant role of ICT in the efficiency improving and restoration of SC which had been destroyed in COVID-19. It is concluded that developed economies showed a high efficiency of their logistics systems at the national level and high values of the digital life rating. At the same time, the influence of ICT on the logistics system performance was not decisive in countries with average economic development and below ones. The results of this study can be used by companies' top management of various levels to build a strategy and tactics for their development including crisis management. The research methods and data can be applied to further explore the impact of ICT on the recovery and efficiency of global and local supply chains, including the updated data with the account of coronavirus pandemic impact to indicators which were used in the paper.

scholarly journals Analisis Pengaruh SIM, SOP dan Jaringan Distribusi Terhadap Supply Chain Manajemen (Studi Kasus Pada PT. Lion Mentari Airlines)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Aliffah Kusumaningrum
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Management Information Systems ◽  
Standard Operating Procedure ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Standard Operating Procedures ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Information Systems Management ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Network Maintenance

To improve realibility and air worThere are several factors that could lead supply chain effectively, like information systems, implementation standard operating procedures and distribution network. Maintenance of air plane can be go efferective and efficient to support supply chain such as system Information,standard operating procedure,supply chain. The factor of regulation in an airlines not only involved by employees in their work environment but also support by the tight of regulation itself. The objective of this paper is to finding out whether three of factor above have impacting supply chain effectively (as partial and collective) and also define what factor that strongest affecting supply chain effectively. This study is a survey to test the hypothesis of the influence between Management Information Systems, standard operating procedures and distribution networks on the effectiveness of supply chain in the airlines PT. Lion Mentari Airlines, and the results of the survey through the questionnaire were analyzed through hypothesis testing carried out by the method of correlation and regression. the results of the analysis and testing in the study of the factors that influence the supply chain effectiveness in PT Lion Mentari Airlines, the following conclusions are obtained, the analysis shows a significant influence between management information systems on supply chain effectiveness, which means that the higher the effectiveness of information systems Management, the higher the supply chain operational effectiveness. This shows that information systems can help activities and improve the achievement of operational objectives for the company.

scholarly journals Key success factor in the innovative transformation of state-owned roller enterprises in China

Filomat ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (15) ◽  
pp. 4279-4286
Author(s):  
Yao-Tang Liao ◽  
Tsung-Cheng Wu ◽  
Tzu-Chuan Chou
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Success Factor ◽  
Iron And Steel ◽  
Organizational Network ◽  
Marketing Innovation ◽  
Retrieval Rate ◽  
Local Supply ◽  
Innovative Culture

The state-owned enterprises based iron and steel industry in China encountered the sharply decreasing business performance of large steel works resulted from the reform in 1990. Delphi Method is utilized for analyzing the strategies and approaches of innovative business model, and the MEFAS model is proposed for innovation management in roller industry, including material breakthrough, experience sales, focus marketing, corporate network alliance, real-time supply chain, reorganization, and innovative enterprise culture. Beijing Shougang Jingshun Rolls Co., Ltd. is sampled for the case study. Total 250 copies of questionnaires are distributed, and 178 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 71%. The result shows that Material R&D Innovation, weighted 0.208, about 20.8% of overall weight, is mostly emphasized, followed by Local Supply Chain Innovation (weighted 0.174), Construction of Innovative Culture (weighted 0.168), Reorganization (weighted 0.142), Marketing Innovation (weighted 0.129), Organizational Network Innovation (weighted 0.116), and Sales Innovation (weighted 0.063).

scholarly journals The Physical Internet: A means towards achieving global logistics sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 815-829
Author(s):  
Taofeeq D. Moshood ◽  
Shahryar Sorooshian
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Minimal Models ◽  
Society Business ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Global Logistics ◽  
Physical Internet ◽  
The Right

Abstract The supply chains that make up the distribution networks are becoming more diverse as companies respond to global markets’ rigorous demands. Today, the immediate need for sustainable growth is to design, manufacture, and deliver the right product to experience drastic improvements in the right place, at the right price, and at the right time. As a massively distributed, integrated logistics infrastructure, a new “Physical Internet” (PI) model has been implemented to make the existing logistics structures more scalable and sustainable. This article discusses resource control in the PI’s modern supply chain and logistics systems while addressing the potential disruptions between the hubs during the transfer of goods. This article attempts to establish how companies will benefit from introducing the PI to optimise their strategic supply chain. This article used ATLAS.ti 9 automated tool to save, classify, and evaluate the data for this analysis to review the literature systematically. For PI, an increasing number of plans, blueprints, and requirements have been established. Still, minimal models are currently developed, explaining how the transformation from the strengthened logistics business models to the PI could occur. There is a lack of awareness of the necessary market structures that can include crucial players and allow the PI model to be embraced. Therefore, this research brings a new viewpoint on logistic operations through the PI idea, guarantees the present situation’s view, and presents a solution to the society–business–technology framework.

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