Title :
Agility in Auto Dealers SCM
Author :
Tarokh, M.J. ; Ghahremanloo, Hoda ; Karami, Mahnaz
Author_Institution :
Head of Postgraduate IT Engineering Group, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, IRAN. mjtarokh@kntu.ac.ir
Abstract :
Agile Supply Chain Management (ASCM) increasingly becomes an effective and important measure to enhance competitive advantage of enterprises that needs the support of agile information system to integrate their supply chain more effectively and quickly. An agile supply chain features model is developed to help enterprises reach agility in their supply chain management and integration by forecasting the real demand and selecting suitable. This paper focuses on agility in distribution system of automobile industry, in particular in their auto dealers, which are the main distribution channel of auto companies. As a result, the paper shows how agility can effect on having an integrated distribution Chain Management for auto industries and a responsive SCM for auto dealers.
Keywords :
Agile manufacturing; Automobile manufacture; Automotive engineering; Management information systems; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Predictive models; Product development; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Agile Supply Chain Management; Agility; Auto dealer; Automobile Industry; Supply chain;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2007. SOLI 2007. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1118-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1118-4
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2007.4383906