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
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