Studies on Information and Knowledge Processes in Supply Chain Management

Title:

Global Supply Chain Management Issues in the Focus of Development of e-Commerce

Author(s):

Alfonz Antoni, Huy Bach Nguyen

Pages:

1-35.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.cX3kEox

Supply chain management is vital to a company’s success as well as customer’s satisfaction. In this paper, supply chain management was studied with Amazon as an example of globally great success. The study observes how Amazon has renovated its supply, and at the same time the study points out components and aspects where Amazon can improve. The paper includes three main parts. First being the principles of supply chain management, in which we discover the types of supply chain, the current trends and the ideas behind these strategies as well as which supply chain strategy should be executed by a business. The second part covers the key factors to successfully manage a supply chain, businesses should focus in certain tasks to improve their supply chain. The last part is about Amazon, how Amazon is innovative, how well Amazon manages its supply chain and ultimately how Amazon is becoming the leader in E-Commerce industry.

Title:

Comparative Analysis of Global Supply Chain Management of Chinese and USA HI-TECH Electronic companies and Its Implications

Author(s):

Alfonz Antoni, Zhang Yuyi

Pages:

37-57.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.cLYS6i0

With the rapid development of information science and technology and the continuous advance of economic globalization, the international market competition is becoming increasingly fierce. Faced with the increasingly complex global market competition, multinational corporations, in order to continuously enhance their competitiveness, improve customer satisfaction and maximize profits, take the global market as the background, take product research and development, raw material procurement, manufacturing and processing as well as final product distribution into account, so as to realize the global design of supply chain network, form a global supply chain, and establish a global supply chain management strategy. At present, under the sweeping tide of economic globalization, global supply chain management will become the mainstream trend of management development of multinational corporations in the future. In this context, this paper makes an in-depth study of global supply chain and its management, and makes a detailed analysis of Dell’s and Lenovo’s global supply chain management, which are typical multinational enterprises that have established effective global supply chain management. Through the research and case analysis, this paper aims to have a comprehensive and profound understanding of global supply chain and its management, to have a critical understanding of Dell’s and Lenovo’s effective global supply chain management and understand their strengths and challenges, and finally to provide practical suggestions for the development of Chinese enterprises in domestic and international markets. Finally, the following findings are obtained in this paper. With its global supply chain management, Dell has reduced costs and built good relationships with suppliers and customers. Lenovo has also adopted effective global supply chain management modes, which enable Lenovo to achieve the competitive advantages of information integration and costs reduction as well as the competitive advantages in the mode of operation and management technology. However, in the domestic and international environments, there are still some problems in Dell’s and Lenovo’s global supply chain management, which presents them with some challenges. Through the comparison between the two, this paper finds that they have both similarities and differences in global supply chain management, as well as successes and shortcomings. Therefore, this paper believes that, for Chinese companies, in order to have a foothold in the world, they must learn from the common successes of Dell and Lenovo, focusing on customer demand and product value added as well as minimizing costs. In addition, Chinese enterprises must learn from Lenovo and Dell respectively when exploring domestic and international markets, learn to adapt measures to local conditions, and make full use of the advantages of the direct selling model. In addition, Chinese enterprises should also clearly recognize the problems in their own supply chain management, and actively adopt countermeasures to achieve the overall optimization of their own supply chain management.

Title:

Studying the Changes Forced by Covid-19 on Small and Medium Businesses and its supply chains in the UK

Author(s):

Alfonz Antoni, Savannah Celestina Trail

Pages:

59-97.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.c9Wl9nL

All over the world, Covid-19 pandemic has affected the businesses operating in different industries and sectors. Some businesses have managed to deal with the impact while some have faced severe losses. In the UK, analysts have identified that SMEs play a major role in economic growth and development. The current pandemic situation has increased pressure for the businesses, which has led to a shift in the business models. The businesses are adopting new strategies and methods to deal with the challenges and complexities. The pressure of competing and retaining positions has affected different areas and aspects of the business. Along with these changes, it has been seen that the demands of consumers have also changed. The changes in consumer behaviour have led to influence on business approaches and strategies. The study focused on gathering primary data using a questionnaire. The analysis of the data using the regression model justified that the Covid-19 pressure has imposed changes on SMEs. However, the impact of consumer behaviour in this situation has not been proved. The study concludes that it is important for the business to respond quickly according to the market trends and demands.

Title:

Analyses of foreign experience of digitalization of supply chain management at SME in China

Author(s):

Alfonz Antoni, Yang Shuhan

Pages:

99-131.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.c8lESZH

Supply chain refers to the network chain structure formed by upstream and downstream enterprises involved in providing products or services to end-user activities in the production and circulation process. All the links are in a safe, fast and efficient way. Reducing costs, improving quality and production speed have become the unique advantages of its expansion. Good supply chain management improves their market share by improving productivity and utilising production competitiveness, raw material storage, commodity transportation, product processing and distributor selection. Informatization and digitalization are one of the hotspots of supply chain management research. For many enterprises, the informatization and digitalization of supply chain management are particularly important due to the complexity of their own business. This article expounds the characteristics of the supply chain and introduces the importance of its digitalization and informatization implementation steps, which includes some important matters needing attention. And the article analyses how a food producer located in Xinzheng, China pays less attention on the supply chain management. Due to the neglect of supply chain management, the company is slowly going bankrupt.

Title:

The evaluation of the efficacy of supply chain management of retailers in the context of globalization

Author(s):

Alfonz Antoni, Mao Jiamin

Pages:

133-165.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.cEh9blx

This paper expounds the supply chain management of retail enterprises under the background of globalization, as well as the decision-making and strategy of supply chain management. From the concept, origin and strategy of supply chain management, the analysis and types of retailers’ supply chain management are introduced. Finally, specific cases are compared and analyzed to Zara, the representative of clothing retail enterprises famous for fast fashion and non-fast fashion, and Uniqlo, which has an unshakable position in Japan. At the same time, it also introduces the influence of China’s e-commerce on the two garment enterprises and gives its strategic suggestions.

Title:

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic in freight forwarding and international relocations industries

Author(s):

Krisztina Barta

Pages:

167-183.

Language:

English

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60030/ALMAMS.cIOKIcy

It has been reported globally that the entire freight forwarding industry is facing a severe disruptions since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. It has created a ripple effect supply chain crisis all across the globe. This is unfortunately an industry phenomenon that is impacting every industry and sector, including international relocations of household goods and personal effects. Apart from lack of availability of cargo space, long delays, schedule changes and last minute re-routings have become a common occurrence, while global ports deal with port congestion and backlogs as a result of COVID-19 closures. Ships are sometimes stuck outside ports for weeks awaiting clearance to dock, unload and reload their cargo while some routes have even been suspended indefinitely.