• DocumentCode
    694292
  • Title

    Diversification of supply chain

  • Author

    Chen, James K. C. ; Tran Nguyen, T.H. ; Chen, K. ; Nguyen, Ha T. T.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Bus. Adm., Asia Univ., Taichung, Taiwan
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    10-13 Dec. 2013
  • Firstpage
    1622
  • Lastpage
    1626
  • Abstract
    The supply chain (SC) will be considered as a competitive strategy and one of the most useful methods by which companies can deliver products to customers effectively, all aspects of great are really importance to companies. However, each company has its own business scale and market areas, the supply chain model must vary to accommodate those dissimilarities. The contributions of the paper are three-fold: introducing three different types of enterprises concerning market regions, examining three types of supply chain models and developing a specific role of entities in the models. Some Small and Medium sized and effectively, are virtually important to companies. Enterprises (SMEs), which have not established a certain SC, may choose a suitable model. This paper draws up three models of SC for enterprises referring.
  • Keywords
    competitive intelligence; small-to-medium enterprises; supply chain management; SME; business scale; competitive strategy; enterprises referring; market areas; market regions; medium sized companies; small sized companies; supply chain diversification; supply chain model; Companies; Materials; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Transportation; Distribution Hubs; Inventory; Supply Chain model; Supply chain; Transportation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2013 IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Bangkok
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IEEM.2013.6962684
  • Filename
    6962684