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    • An analysis of business administration students interest in the area of production and operations 

      Costa, Francisco José da; Lima, Dorelland Ponte; Andrade, Raphael de Jesus Campos de
      2008-12-29
      This article analyzes the interest of Business Administration students in the area of Production and Operations. A field study involving data collection of data from 165 students of institutions of higher education in the ...
    • Assessment of the Brazilian cash operation through the approach of sustainable supply chains 

      Okino, Daniel de Almeida; Cattini Júnior, Orlando
      2011-12-22
      The Brazilian cash logistics operation is sustained by one of the country's major supply chains and involves the flow of notes and coins between banks, various players of the economy and the population as a whole. Due to ...
    • Building resilient supply chains through flexibility: a case study in healthcare 

      Bradaschia, Marcelo; Pereira, Susana Carla Farias
      2015-12-22
      This research seeks to understand how the capability of flexibility manifests itself for the formation of resilience in service supply chains. The survey was conducted through a single case study of a hospital chain that ...
    • Coordination in Brazilian pharmaceutical supply chains 

      Miguel, Priscila Laczynski de Souza; Reis, Manoel de Andrade e Silva
      2014-12-26
      Supply chain coordination (SCC) can be a challenge for many organizations as different firms in the same chain has different expectations and interdependencies (Arshinder & Deshmukh, 2008). Lack of SCC can result in ...
    • Desafios da gestão de riscos 

      Pereira, Susana Carla Farias; Pereira, Luís Henrique
      2017-12-26
      As cadeias de suprimentos com conexões ao redor do mundo podem trazer vantagens competitivas, mas exigem atenção redobrada dos gestores, pois são mais sujeitas a rupturas do que as que operam localmente.
    • Determinants of sustainable supply chain: an analysis of mensuration models of pressures and socio-environmental practices 

      Abdala, Etienne Cardoso; Barbieri, José Carlos
      2014-12-26
      Sustainability became an important topic concerning the management of the supply chain. Therefore, this study aims to understand the determinant factors of the pressures, and environmental practices on the management of ...
    • Dyad buyer-supplier and its relation to financial performance 

      Mondini, Luis Cesar; Machado, Denise Del Prá Netto; Scarpin, Márcia Regina Santiago
      2014-06-29
      This study aims to raise which practices of buyer-supplier dyad are related to the financial performance of the manufacturing industry in Brazil. Based of 174 Brazilian companies and a total of 312 respondents, the analysis ...
    • Entre o saber e o fazer 

      Scarcelli, Marcelo
      2017-12-26
      Ninguém tem dúvida dos benefícios de um processo de planejamento integrado para a gestão de operações, mas conflitos de interesse impedem que empresas sejam bem-sucedidas em sua implementação.
    • Um guia à logística 

      Brito, Luiz Artur Ledur
      2007-10-03
      Em sua terceira edição, a obra trata, conjuntamente, do papel estratégico da logística, de direcionadores estratégicos-chave para seu desempenho e das ferramentas e técnicas para análise da cadeia logística. O principal ...
    • A importância da gestão da cadeia de suprimentos 

      Miguel, Priscila Laczynski de Souza
      2017-07-26
      Agregar valor à entrega permite às empresas se diferenciarem.
    • Inteligência em compras 

      Biazzin, Cristiane
      2017-12-26
      Dados e processos são cada vez mais transparentes e acessíveis. O que falta é desenvolver competências para analisar tantas informações e usá-las adequadamente na tomada de decisões.
    • Internet’s role in the integration of supply chains of manufacturing organizations in Brazil 

      Graeml, Alexandre Reis; Balbinot, Zandra; Csillag, João Mário
      2009-12-28
      This paper presents the results of a study about the impact of the Internet and other information technologies on supply chain management, as perceived by managers in the field. Two almost identical surveys were applied ...
    • Logística - diferenciação competitiva 

      Reis, Manoel de Andrade e Silva
      2007-10-03
      A partir da década de 1990, a logística passou a ter um papel capital na diferenciação competitivadas empresas. A razão dessa importância crescentemente estratégica está associada à sua capacidadede redução de custos e ...
    • A new kind of operations inventory: the pre-assembled kit 

      Machline, Claude
      2008-06-27
      This paper studies the effect of a kit system on the supplier inventory. Kits have been popular fordecades in many segments, especially in the health care sector. Pre-assembled kits create new kinds of inventory:a circulating ...
    • Quantitative modeling in practice: applying optimization techniques to a Brazilian consumer packaged goods (CPG) company distribution network design (technical note) 

      Mirapalheta, Gustavo Corrêa; Freitas, Flávia Junqueira de
      2013-12-23
      This article aims presenting an example of quantitative modeling and optimization techniques application to the design of the distribution network of a consumer packaged goods company in São Paulo, Minas Gerais and ...
    • Relação turbulenta 

      Parente, Juracy Gomes; Laban Neto, Silvio Abrahão
      2006-10-03
      O conflito parece ser a tônica do relacionamento entre indústria e varejo. De seu lado, aquela reclama da concentração deste último e do aumento de seu poder na negociação de preços. O varejo, por sua vez, questiona a ...
    • Responsiveness in the supply chain: a possible decision-driver for location of new subsidiaries? 

      Silva, Ronald Tavares Pires da; Biazzin, Cristiane; Siegler, Janaína
      2013-06-25
      This study explores possible new drivers that may be integrated into the decision-makingmodels for establishing the location of subsidiaries. More precisely, it seeks to answer the followingresearch question: Does the ...
    • Risk management in the supply chain of the Brazilian automotive industry 

      Guedes, Edson Júnior Gomes; Bittar, Alexandre de Vicente; Di Serio, Luiz Carlos; Oliveira, Luciel Henrique de
      2015-06-22
      With a growth scenario found in few places in the world, the Brazilian automotive market has become attractive, jumping from investments of about 1 billion dollar in 2005 to more than 5 billion dollars in 2012. This article ...
    • Serviço completo 

      Tescari, Fábio Viard de Campos da Silva; Scalese Junior, Eduardo Antonio
      2017-12-26
      O customer service, que antes só cuidava das reclamações dos clientes, agora enfrenta o desafio de conectar a área comercial à cadeia produtiva e, assim, proporcionar atendimento flexível e integral.
    • Strategic alignment in the Brazilian automotive chain 

      Martins, Ricardo Silveira; Souza Filho, Osmar Vieira de; Pereira, Susana Carla Farias; Di Serio, Luiz Carlos
      2012-06-18
      The research objective is verifying the strategic alignment of supply practices between automakers and suppliers in the Brazilian automotive supply chains. It makes an exploratory-descriptive study of objectives, using ...