Josefa Mula Bru

Collaborative forecasting management: fostering creativity within the meta value chain context

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to present a conceptual model for collaborative forecasting management (CFM) developed within a European projects context.Design/methodology/approach – This research follows a constructivist approach. After analysing different frameworks relating to such a thematic, and once their main weaknesses were identified, it was decided to develop the CFM framework that provides collaborative enterprises with a simple, efficient, robust and useful framework.Findings – The paper describes a CFM model, which finds a place in the extended collaborative supply chain context, where several supply chains collaborate to deliver a product or service pack to final customers, thus forming the so‐called meta‐value chain, creating an extended value proposition.Practical implications – Even though this proposal has been tested in one of the projects pilots, obtaining good results in terms of achieved and potentially achievable advantages, it should be tested further by implemen...

Gestión de la calidad total y mantenimiento productivo total en la fabricación de alto rendimiento

En este estudio se compara el grado de implementacion de diferentes metodos de las practicas de Gestion de la Calidad y Mantenimiento Productivo Total en diversas plantas industriales, clasificadas como de alto rendimiento o rendimiento estandar, con el objetivo de analizar cuales son los metodos de ambas practicas mas correlacionados con la fabricacion de alto rendimiento. Material y metodos A partir de dos rondas anteriores del proyecto internacional High Performance Manufacturing (HPM), se desarrollaron un conjunto de cuestionarios que sirvieron para realizar el analisis cuantitativo de la situacion actual de las plantas industriales de Europa, Asia y Estados Unidos de los sectores de maquinaria, electronica y automocion en lo que acabo siendo la tercera ronda internacional HPM. La muestra de plantas industriales distinguia dos tipologias: Plantas de Alto Rendimiento (PAR) y Plantas de Rendimiento Estandar (PRE). El estudio utilizo la informacion proporcionada por 179 plantas del total de 265 plantas participantes debido a que 86 plantas industriales no fueron clasificadas segun su tipologia en PAR y PRE. Resultados Las comparativas desarrolladas ofrecen una VlSlon de cuales son los metodos de Gestion de la Calidad y Mantenimiento Productivo Total en los que existe una mayor diferenciacion en el grado de implementacion entre plantas industriales de alto rendimiento y de rendimiento estandar. Tambien, se realiza un analisis de los diferentes paises del estudio y sectores. Aquellos metodos mas implantados en las plantas industriales clasificadas como de alto rendimiento son los que confieren una ventaja competitiva, aunque cabe destacar que el rendimiento no solo es funcion de los metodos analizados en el presente estudio, sino que tambien depende de otras practicas del modelo de Fabricacion de Alto Rendimiento. Discusion Los metodos de control de procesos, orientacion al cliente y asociacion con proveedores son las tecnicas mas correlacionadas con el alto rendimiento, ya que las plantas industriales de alto rendimiento tienen un mayor grado de implementacion de los mismos. Aquellas plantas que tambien poseen mantenimiento de apoyo implantado presentan un mayor rendimiento que las plantas que no lo consideran.

Analysis of the Customer Service Rate and Reliability of Suppliers in a Production and Assembly Multinational Company

This study arises from the need to improve the goals or objectives set for the supply chain management department of a multinational company in the electric sector given the successive poor results achieved in service rates, and also from the need to merge two different management models: the traditional company model and the multinational company model. To fulfill this objective, a simulation model was built by the system dynamics method and using the Vensim® simulation software. After simulating the different processes that encompass the activity of the supply chain under study, the obtained results were analyzed and different scenarios were simulated according to the proposed objectives. Then whether these objectives were actually fulfilled was verified, the best economic results were selected and possible future lines of action were set out.

Propuesta y desarrollo de la evaluación de la competencia transversal de trabajo en equipo para la asignatura de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Ayuda a la Toma de Decisiones de 3º GADE

This article proposes and develops a procedure for the evaluation of the transversal competence of teamwork in the subject of Quantitative Methods to Support Decision Making of the third course of the Degree in Business Administration and Management. This subject is delivered at the Escuela Politécnica Superior de Alcoy of the Universitat Politècnica de València. The proposal includes the approach of an academic work made by students groups, a rubrik that supports the evaluation of the teamwork and a self-assessment questionnaire to be filled by the students involved. Additionally, we provide details of the quantitative procedure carried out to obtain the final assessment as well as the summary of the quantitative results obtained until the moment which shows a high acquisition level in the evaluation of the teamwork transversal competence in the considered degree.

Increasing the equity of a flower supply chain by improving order management and supplier selection

This paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry Project entitled Design and Management of Global Supply Chains (GLOBOP) (Ref. DPI2012-38061-C02-01).