Waste Identification: A Supply Chain Strategy Perspective.

SCM 06

Latif Al-Hakim

Faculty of Business

University of Southern Queensland Queensland, AUSTRALIA

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ABSTRACT

The paper deals with the relationship between waste reduction and supply chain strategies and argues that the competitive advantage of a supply chain can be viewed as an ongoing process of acquiring control over different types of waste. 

The paper orients the managerial thinking to aggregating non-added value activities into waste zones and recognises three waste zones for supply chains; information zone, strategic decisions zone and system variations zone.  The paper identifies several parameters for measuring the performance of supply chain waste reduction.     

Key words: 

Agility, lean manufacturing, supply chain strategies, waste zones.