SCM - Science topic

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"The fishing industry contributes to the national economy and has a high risk of being traded because it has a long shipping time, limited time to consume, and the amount traded varies depending on the season. This risk can reduce the potential profit of players in the fishing industry. To reduce this risk and maximize added value, blockchain technology is used to change the supply chain of the fishing industry. Blockchain technology is a ledger database that is distributed to record transactions among parties that can be verified and permanently.

Blockchain is a promising technology in providing a transparent fish product supply chain, but many obstacles and challenges still hinder its popularity in the fishery supply chain. However, blockchain with its main characteristics: decentralization, anonymity, transparency, and traceability, can change the traditional fishing industry for the better. Blockchain can be combined with other emerging technologies (big data, robotics, IoT, RFID, NFC, etc.), for higher automation of the fishery supply chain, resulting in full transparency and tracking. Blockchain also has economic benefits for all users because it can make production more efficiently at lower costs."

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Yes, effective project management can play a crucial role in limiting the risks associated with the successful application of supply chain management (SCM) projects. SCM projects involve various complexities, stakeholders, and potential risks. By implementing robust project management practices, organizations can enhance their ability to mitigate risks and increase the chances of project success. Here are some ways in which effective project management can help in managing risks in SCM projects:

By integrating effective project management practices into SCM projects, organizations can enhance their ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks. This ultimately increases the likelihood of successful project outcomes and contributes to the overall success of the supply chain management initiatives.

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II suggest you see the links on the topic.

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Mahie Islam, Pretty quiet to deploy the AI family to the supply chain problems that are mostly being addressed using the classical black-box modeling of supply chain optimization at the strategic decision.

SC is an area that is highly vulnerable to such advent of information technology and revolution that is mainly characterized by the proliferation of data, economic globalization, and dynamic customer expectation. A yet powerful full predictive method has become mandatory for data-driven than model-driven decision making in order to expose underlying uncertainties.

While possible to have a surrogate model through simulation, this approach still is expensive and doesn't give a clear cut for decision making. The importance of AI through the Machine learning method, however, helps to have either an interpretable, accurate, or both if some like support vector machine are likely to deploy.

If you have questions, let me know. The theoretical foundation for that work is developed by C. West Churchman in his book, The Design of Inquiring Systems. He explores five different approaches to determining the truth of a scientific assertion which he labels with their philosophers: Lockean Inquiry, Leibnizian Inquiry, Kantian Inquiry, Hegelian Inquiry and finally Singerian Inquiry. Churchman is a Singerian. Singer argues that science, ultimately, must be eclectic. He suggests that multiple disciplines must be addressed to answer complex questions. The book discusses a particular question: Is there life on Mars? It was published in 1972 before we sent the Viking lander to Mars. I am also something of a Singerian. My book is unintelligible because it bounces between far too many disciplines.

Dear Yuan Liu,

Software configuration management (SCM) is a software engineering discipline consisting of standard processes and techniques often used by organizations to manage changes to their software products. SCM helps identify individual items and configurations, track changes, and select, control, and define baseline releases.

SCM is also known as Software Control Management. SCM aims to control changes to large, complex software systems through reliable selection and version control.

Software configuration management is a discipline of software engineering whose purpose is to answer the question: someone got a result. How to reproduce it? Most often, it is not a question of reproducing identically, but of reproducing with incremental modifications. The question is therefore to compare results and analyze their differences.

You can set up integration with various Software Configuration Management (SCM) applications and share Rational Integration Tester projects with your teams. You must install plug-ins to enable synchronization of your projects with software configuration management systems.

Managing software configurations is a reliable way to share projects among multiple users without having to manually provide version control and rollback capabilities. Support for various software configuration management systems is provided by installing Eclipse Team Provider plugins.

For more information about this subject, I suggest you to see links on the topic.

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Also the ball bearing effect of fly ash helps strength gain of concrete by densifying the paste and by improving packing. Hopefully we'd work on this topic further in near future.

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In principle, you could use it. The reason for the application you mentions has to do with the number of treated units. The SCM can reach situations where the rest of the methods are not adequate (e.g., a single treated unit). This is often the case of state-level policies vs firm-level events (we usually have many observations and treated units in the latter case).

You can have a look at Cunningham's Causal inferente: the mitxtape (https://mixtape.scunning.com/), which can be of some help here.

All the best,

José-Ignacio

Did you manage to resolve this? Assuming you followed this tutorial?

Some further tutorials that could be useful:

I once worked on a project for a business that provided analysis and research reports to its customers - the "raw materials" were data from various sources and the "products" were reports. To improve performance I treated the whole operation as a "supply chain" and implemented a Sales and Operations Planning process. No transportation involved! Although, I recognise that this may be "the exception that proves the rule"!

Dear Dr Alaa

Maybe yes, in some of literature papers two-tone (multi-tone) intermodulation and the SCM system has same meanning.

For example:

[1] J. Capmany, E. Peral and D. Pastor, "Formula for two-carrier intermodulation distortion in wavelength converted subcarrier multiplexed signals via cross gain modulation," in IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 278-280, March 2000, doi: 10.1109/68.826913.

[2] P. A. Rosher, "Analysis of laser overmodulation techniques in subcarrier multiplexed optical fibre systems," IEEE International Conference on Communications, Including Supercomm Technical Sessions, 1990, pp. 415-418 vol.2, doi: 10.1109/ICC.1990.117114.

[3] M. Arief, S. M. Idrus and S. Alifah, "The SCM/WDM system model for radio over fiber communication link," 2008 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference, 2008, pp. 344-347, doi: 10.1109/RFM.2008.4897427.

I propose the following emerging research topic in the field of supply chain management: The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic on supply chain management in internationally operating corporations and the effects of the pandemic in this regard in the next few years.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Dear Dr. Aref Wazwaz Thank you very much for sharing the link

SCM) is a contact mode variant of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in which changes in tip–sample capacitance are imaged simultaneously with surface topography. Samples for SCM analysis are generally covered with a thin insulating layer that serves as the capacitance dielectric between the tip and sample. The spatially mapped capacitance variations can be attributed to changes in the dielectric thickness, changes in the dielectric constant, or variation in the local charge carrier density underneath the dielectric. In the most typical application of SCM, which is the characterization of semiconductor devices, capacitance variations are converted via a theoretical model into a dopant concentration profile in the semiconductor underneath the dielectric.

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Hi, I am actually working on the problem of energy reflection/transmission coefficient in case of piezoelectric material using the Poynting vector formula.

Can you check the work of Zaitsev please, he give the formula of power flow.

flow of pure mechanical power:

PM = 1/2 Re (ω2/v) Cijkl nk Ul Uj ,

Link will be helpful to smooth XRD data by removing signal noise

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This will not only uplift the paper and the authors but will definitely raise the impact factor of the journal. I think they should have considered your APC waived or rather they are formally expecting your official request, please do this with a reasonable excuse, possibly accompanied with a letter from your institution giving reasons why you cannot shoulder the cost. Many people always say those reputable journals do not charge, but I disagree with this standpoint, even though some give a long time embargo before being openly made accessible. The cost of publication, following huge expenses on researches for researchers, is huge especially without grant or other sponsorships.

Distinguished Sapna Nayyar, I understand that you want to do research on a subject that seems to have a quantitative approach (Big Data), but wants to do it from a qualitative level. Having understood correctly, we did a research with Industry 4.0, in general, which we related to the Logistics Model Based on Positions (MoLoBaC). We did the analysis from the qualitative and quantitative point of view. But the quantitative approach was using very simple and easy to handle multicriteria models.

An introduction to this work is in Research Gate (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333520813_The_Logistic_Model_Based_on_Positions_LoMoBaP_MoLoBaC_and_Industry_40_Source_Title_Technological_Developments_in_Industry_40_for_Business_Applications_Chapter_Preview_Top?_sg=jwseqqb1-Brr5MQzBN9fRFHWa6pwwUI91NKLkOblhloOJjYvFOTGeYB_1bggZJeBFtKVdbu339fy5z33iGCkaKNfP6rg625GUgKGa3bW.UUuTeUJe8GLNj7EeY_ZDFAE4WikuTgSg2yhmg2Mj4FAZfMMQlKSIpsGtEgqU5oJP7fVBkMhKD8QqZH0zEmWqog). Unfortunately, due to confidentiality conditions the work is not complete. But of interest, sure, you can locate it.

I hope this suggestion is of some help and many successes in your research.

Best regards,

José Hernández.

SEM is used in many contexts in SCM, but many studies lack validity and reliability, often relating to the genaralizability of the sample, the nature of data collected (cross-sectional vs. longitudinal data), or single response biases (only one respondent per firm vs. multiple respondents), among other possible biases or limitations. Therefore, SEM studies must be well designed, it is a method that requires almost more time in study design than in the evaluation of the results. Please see, for instance:

Flynn, B., Pagell, M., & Fugate, B. (2018). Survey research design in supply chain management: the need for evolution in our expectations. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 54(1), 1-15.

Absolutely it is next best thing and i am interest to work on such projects

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https://public.tableau.com/en-us/gallery/?tab=featured&type=featured

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/njt/article/viewFile/123443/112983

you may find valid information from above link

1. Not clear about the extent of business that the company wants to outsource.

2. Not treating the other company as a business partner.

3. Not sharing information and knowledge with the other company.

Dear Michel Héry , I agree that the transformation of workforce and human-machine interaction will be of particular importance. Further, and adding to the second point of Timothy P. Munyon , horizontal interconnection across the supply chain and data consistency from product development to recycling are two virtal points. This has many potentials for more efficient value chains (economically and ecologically), but requires new forms of collaboration across the supply chain, as power shifts will occur and SMEs have to be integrated. All those factors differ worldwide. For further reading, please see some of our work below:

Panagiotis Tsiakis sorry for my late reply, the interview design took longer than expected, but is ready now. Would you still be interested? I can send the questions in advance and it would take less than 45 minutes.

I don't know about your setting, but WDS and EDS are two different detectors, right? They can be used independently, but often (or at least in case of Oxford Instruments) they will use the same software GUI. On second thought, due to the high current I would advise against simultaneous use of EDS and WDS detectors. At least I prefer to retract EDS while preparing for WDS...

Anthea,

Please see a number of others:

6. Supply Chain Management: More than a new name for logistics:

7. Performance Measurement for Green Supply Chain Management:

8. From a literature review to a conceptual framework for sustainable supply chain management:

9. An empirical investigation into supply chain management A perspective on partnerships

10. A fuzzy approach for supplier evaluation and selection in supply chain management

11. Characteristics of supply chain management and the implications for purchasing and logistics strategy

12. Supply chain management integration and implementation: a literature review

Hope these help, all the best with your research. If you want to discuss further, please feel free to DM me.

Regards

Martin

Dear Mehreen,

I suggest you to see links and attached file on topic.

-(PDF) Creating More Resilient Supply Chains - ResearchGate

https://www.researchgate.net/.../264037785_Creating_More_Resili...

-Major Companies Join Forces to Drive Climate Resilience in Supply ...

https://3blmedia.com/.../Major-Companies-Join-Forces-Drive-Clim...

-How To Make Your Supply Chain More Resilient - Forbes

https://www.forbes.com/.../how-to-make-your-supply-chain-more-...

-Understanding Supply Chain Resilience - Supply Chain 24/7

https://www.supplychain247.com/.../understanding_supply_chain_...

-Making the Move from Supply Chain Risk to Supply Chain Resiliency ...

https://www.supplychain247.com/.../move...supply_chain...supply...

-Business Action for Climate-Resilient Supply Chains - BSR

https://www.bsr.org/.../BSR_Report_Climate_Resilient_Supply_Ch...

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Yeah I mean Supply Chain Management prof. Bruno Durand

Vishnu C Rajan Thanks a lot.

Limestone powder also can be used as partially replacement.

Besides these positivist type of case studies (Eisenhardt; Yin) there are, of course, also other types of case studies, see for example the other types mentioned here: https://scmresearch.org/2017/11/24/four-types-of-case-study-research-designs/ I believe that it is time that SCM becomes more open to alternative methodological perspectives when it comes to case studies.

Imparting sustainability in our life covering TBL

1. Social aspects

2. Economic aspects

3. Environmental aspects

Internet of things and artificial intelligence are getting more important than ever. Studying how IoT and AI can enhance SCM will be something very useful. I supposed you can get better suggestions from other researchers if you could share more about your SCM research scope.

The current SCM approach is to create values and enhance key outcomes (in terms of efficiency and effectiveness) that drive firm performance. Please refer to Ketchen & Hult (2007). 

Usually what you observe in systems with high alumina SCMs (meta kaolin, fly ash) is an increased uptake of aluminium by CSH, compared to normal OPC systems. Therefore, in this cases is more accurate to talk of CASH rather than just CSH. The amount of aluminium incorporated in CSH varies with age, and also depends in the amount and quality (in terms of aluminium content) of the SCM used. A second interaction would be the formation of AFm phases. When you also have limestone in the system, the alumina phases provided by the SCM can react and form monocarboaluminate and hemicarboaluminate, which further contribute to space filling and therefore, to strength. The publication below can provide some further insights regarding this interaction mechanism. 

There is no "best" method for every application but there are two general methods. One is regression and the other is cokriging. See the literature (e.g. J. Hydrology, WRR) for applications of cokriging to precipitation data (rain gage vs Doppler radar)

Ground data is generally "point data" whereas satellite data pertains to pixels, the assimilation must take into account this change in "support and how it affects spatial correlation

Take the time to learn exactly who you are addressing your request to and personalise it.  "Dear Mr/Ms XXX" is much more effective than a generic email.  Explain that your request is targeted and briefly explain the importance of their response.  You could also ask them to pass on your survey to others who share a similar position, both within and outwith their organisation.

Finally, offer to share your results if they are interested.  That means that (if they are interested in the subject matter) they have an active interest in your research being successful.

thank you Emmanouil sir for useful answer. what i got from your answer is that in straight point, these two muscles are not the derivatives of sixth arch rather they derived from mesoderm lateral to 6th arch. on the basis of this fact i can assume that the functional component of 11th cranial nerve which supply these two muscles (spinal root of accessory nerve) should be general somatic efferent (GSE) not special visceral efferent (SVE). am i right sir?

paper industry waste (hypo sludge)

In my esperience yes but it's not just a matter of tips, it's also a matter of electronics. What kind of AFM are you using?

Dear Akbar

Some seminal work from an important author that you might found useful is as follows:

Martin Christopher, 2000, The Agile Supply Chain: Competing in Volatile Markets, Industrial Marketing Management 29, 37–44

Martin, Christopher; Towill, Denis R, 2000,  Supply chain migration from lean and functional to agile and customised, Supply Chain Management 5. (4), 206.

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Dear Alfred

I regret I don't have any pratical data regardin ZARA, but I can supply you some hints from a survey I executed some years ago in the same sector among around 10 Italian producers. Many of them are smaller competitors of ZARA.

1). Setting at 100 the retail price of one average product, we have that the whole supply chain spends around 14,5 in logistic costs (including: obsolescence, inventory, setu-ups, defects and trasportation).

2). Almost 2/3 of that cst is concentrated on ponts of sale and more than half that cost is obsolescence, which occurs when one product is unsold at the end of the season, and has therefore to be sold undercost. Note that ZARA's model of shortnening the traditional collections seasons to 2-3 weeks of course yields a sharp reduction of this component.

3). 12% of sales volumes on average are lost when customers give up their purchase intentions because they can't find the serahced for product or size (stock-out). This effect affects all tiers of the supply chain. On top of this, 13% of customers decide to switch store when they don't find the searched for product or size (brand loyal behaviour) and 20% of them, instead turn to another brand in the same point of sale (store loyal behaviour). Note that the ZARA model, by shortening seasons also minimzes stockouts, and the store loyal behaviour is not a problem, resorting to monobrand points of sale.

This is all I know about this topic. Please note it does NOT concern ZARA data. I hope it can be useful.

SVM maybe

I see you have answers enough to begin the interpretation of your DTG. If you have a XRD pattern of the sample you could identify the DTG peaks as lost of mass of  the crystalline phases.

Good luck

Teresa

best to normalize it to g Portland cement, in that way you can see directly how much Ch has been consumed due to the reaction of the FA. In addition normalize all measurements to dry weight (corresponding to the weight recorded at high  temperature (either before or after the carbonate peak), as the total weight of your solid increases during hydration

Hello Adam and Good Day to You.  Thank you for your response to my comments. I understand your dilemma in your statement, "The worst part when the blame is put to the warehouse for being incompetent in handling the planning and  storing materials".  First of all, to put things into perspective, SCM is a tool that has to be managed properly or it creates inefficiencies and poor customer service. That is like blaming the hammer for poor construction of a house.  The hammer is just  tool that when used properly, can help build mansions and large structures.  When not used properly, creates disasters  when structures fail.  I would suggest that you consider evaluating the processes in place, the skill level of the people involved, the established procedures, and how each processes is accomplished based on the written procedures, to determine the failure points and breakdown in the efficient storage and movement of materials.  Areas that I believe maybe suspect and should be evaluated are: supervision experience and knowledge of each process involved, competency of personnel to perform their jobs, use of technology to aid in inventory management,  frequent refresher training of personnel to cover safety, proper procedures for handling material, and proper use of material handling equipment to name a few key areas for study.  You did not mention the use of metrics to assist in identifying problems within warehouse operations.  These are basically management tools that will help identify issues in each functional area of the warehouse fairly quickly, so that corrective action can be implemented.  If there is a problem of inefficiency, the first area I would look at is supervision. There is an old saying, "It is a poor craftsman that blames his tools for poor workmanship".  Just a few thoughts that you might want to consider. 

Hi Susana, the Cl binding capacity is defined by more than one parameter, as a function of the total chloride concentration. Usually it is described as bound Cl concentration as a function of free Cl concentration. As for the effect of slag and fly ash on Cl binding capacity, my group did a similar study on this:

Shi, X., Yang, Z., Liu, Y., & Cross, D. (2011). Strength and corrosion properties of Portland cement mortar and concrete with mineral admixtures. Construction and Building Materials, 25(8), 3245-3256.

Thank you Nishant

Agree with both Tomascz and Mathias. Not sure I would concur with Frans. Why must SCM necessarily involve more than two business entities? It is conceivable that a firm is interested in only managing the link between itself and Tier 1 supplier or there are no further links in the chain (i.e., a single Tier). An SCM system is one kind of B2B system.