Browsing by Author "Akyuz,G.A."

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Basic Issues in Forming a World-Class Supply Chain
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2015) Akyuz,G.A.; Rehan,M.; Information Systems Engineering; Industrial Engineering
Supply chain management (SCM) practices in today's global, complex, networked and web-enabled business conditions demand world-class performance from all chain partners. This study addresses the basic issues in becoming a world-class supply chain. The main aspects involving people, process and technology dimensions are put forward and comprehensively discussed. It is revealed that along with the IT-based integrity issues and performance management aspects, managing the soft concepts such as 'leadership in an extended context' and 'trust-based relationships' appear as the keys for success. © 2015 ACM.
Citation - Scopus: 2
Paradigm Shift in Supply Chain Management (scm)
(American Society for Engineering Management, 2013) Akyuz,G.A.; Gursoy,G.; Industrial Engineering
In today's world, the way we do business is not the only changing phenomenon but also the pace of change is changing. The business is global, highly competitive, technology-intense, prices are market driven with shorter product life cycles, integrated processes starving to collaboration. Within this context, supply chain management (SCM) has earned its right place in the strategic management arena. Technology became the enabler for SCM development, making visibility, transparency and integrity possible among the SC partners. This leads the transformation of SC's from dyadic, material management oriented relationships into complex, collaborative, networked, web-enabled, extended architectures. With multiple, global actors and complex dependencies, enterprise borders vanish and enterprise-centric strategy development becomes insufficient. What defines success in such an environment is a network-centric, collaborative and holistic approach characterized by network level strategy development and decision making based on business intelligence with the partners. Integration of multi-function and multi-agent systems will be the main key performance index (KPI) for the SCM development. This is a radical paradigm shift in which collaborative long-term partnerships reign, managerial borders extend, and network-level results dominate the enterprise-centric results. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive discussion of this paradigm shift in SCM from organizational, technological, and managerial perspectives. Following the "leagile" philosophy, capabilities and advantages of lean and agile SCM can be achieved. In this paradigm, network level performance and risk management is the key for chain-level managerial control and trust among partners is the vital binding glue keeping the partnerships alive.
Citation - Scopus: 1
Supply Chain in the Cloud: Opportunities, Barriers, and a Generic Treatment
(IGI Global, 2015) Akyuz,G.A.; Rehan,M.; Information Systems Engineering; Industrial Engineering
Cloud concept is directly related with the beyond-ERP integrity and collaboration across a number of heterogeneous Supply Chain (SC) partner infrastructures. The technology enables partners to form a collaborative SC community without the burden of significant IT investment. Cloud applications offer significant opportunities from SC perspective, and the assimilation of the Cloud Technology is not complete yet in the Supply Chain domain. It also involves various barriers from implementation perspective, as well as the concerns related with vendor lock-in, security, reliability, privacy and data ownership. This chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of the opportunities and barriers as well as the generic treatment from SC perspective. It also highlights how the cloud technology represents a perfect fit with the ideas of 'Collaborative Supply Chains', 'Business Process Outsourcing' and 'long-term strategic partnerships, which are the key themes characterizing the Supply Chains of today's era. This chapter reveals that the intersection of the topics 'Cloud computing' and 'Supply Chain' is a promising area for further research. Further studies in a multi-partner setting with respect to a variety of configurations, case studies and applications, as well as the security, reliability and data ownership issues are justified. © 2015 by IGI Global. All rights reserved.