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SCD10 Low cost country sourcing complexities and supply chain strategies
Nachiappan Subramanian(1), Shams Rahman(1), Chandra Lalwani(2)
(1)RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, (2)University of Hull, Hull, UK
Supply chain design
This paper analyses Low Cost Country Sourcing (LCCS) complexities and examines how firms manage to overcome
these complexities through supply chain strategies. The purpose of this research is to suggest appropriate supply chain
strategies based on material flow and contractual relationships, to align product and process complexities. The findings
of this research are useful to supply chain practitioners for leveraging product and process complexities into competitive
advantage.
SCD11 The role of functional interdependencies in global operations networks: From
delinking to organizing interfaces
Dmitrij Slepniov, Brian Vejrum Waehrens
Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
The existing studies do not adequately address the complex interplay between co-evolving production, innovation
and service networks. The widening geographical and cognitive gap between these networks means that managing
their interfaces in global operations context is becoming strategically important. Therefore, the purpose of this paper
is to develop a number of propositions about organization and management of these interfaces. The propositions
are developed by employing the design science approach based on a literature study and industrial co-development
workshops with twelve Danish industrial companies. The paper closes with suggestions for how the tentative results of
this work can be unraveled further.
SCD12 Managing the interface between physical and financial supply chains:
implications for banks’ payment services
Rhian Silvestro(1), Paola Lustrato(2)
(1)University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, (2)IBM Financial Services, Turin, Italy
The challenge of physical and financial supply chain (P/FSC) integration is recognised in the financial service industry
and heightened by the recession; yet it is largely overlooked in the OM literature. This paper delineates the competitive
pressures and opportunities for banks to facilitate corporate clients’ requirements for P/FSC integration. The paper
presents a case study based on a European bank which has responded to this challenge with a mass customisation
strategy. The study demonstrates that responding to the challenge of P/FSC integration has implications not only for
service design but also organisational infrastructures and individual roles and responsibilities throughout the company.
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