The increasing competitiveness between local, regional, national and international tourism destinations has determined the parties involved in the tourism industry (local, central authorities, tourism service providers) to initiate a series of actions that would contribute to the diversification of tourism offers and obtaining economic advantages and not only. In this regard, destination management organizations have responded to the need of stakeholders by providing some opportunities for the development of the tourism destination. Among the activities performed by the destination management organizations the following can be mentioned: the elaboration of some plans for the sustainable development of tourism activities in a certain tourism area, the collaboration with the providers of tourism services, the identification of some competitive advantages, the promotion of the image of the tourism destination and the creation of a brand image, the provision of information to all stakeholders, the creation of some authentic tourism products, which would offer unique experiences to tourists, ensuring the well-being of the local community and offering strategic alternatives, which would ensure the sustainability of tourism activities. This paper aims to provide insight into the role of tourism destination management organizations.
The present study represents a part of a wider research, centered on consignment stock program adoption and implementation in a supply chain governed by lean and agile strategies. The paper attempts to explore the challenges and the barriers which may occur prior or during the implementation stages of the project, to identify and mitigate the risks and also to establish safe approaches to overcome project failure. The work includes a brief overview on consignment stock model and its benefits, along with the implementation risks perceived by the internal stakeholders, mostly viewed as a human factor reaction to change. The methodology consists of a survey addressed to the business functions directly affected by the project, in order to identify the main barriers and risks, and of an assessment of the risk severity and its distribution within and among different groups of stakeholders, using One-way ANOVA statistical method. A solutions framework to the identified risks is proposed, in order to overcome implementation barriers.
In the context of increasing competitiveness, the companies from manufacturing industry are constrained to provide quality products at a lower price and a shorter delivery time. This brings new challenges during the manufacturing process. One of the main challenges is to reduce or eliminate waste during the production stage. The actual paper presents methods and solutions through which the waste from the manufacturing process is identified and eliminated. As a consequence, increased productive efficiency and higher profit have been gained. The objective of this study is to implement Lean manufacturing tools, in order to improve the production process carried out within a manufacturing company, with a small manufacturing batch. Based on real data from the manufacturing process, the current value stream mapping (VSM) was built, identifying both operational and non-operational times. After waste identification, an optimal solution was chosen for the manufactured parts required by the customer. Implementing the best solution resulted in a productive efficiency increase by 90.93%, which significantly reduces the manufacturing time.
In today’s competitive business environment, with a continuously increasing diversity in customer demand, a high level of supply chain responsiveness is an imperative requisite for companies’ survival. As a consequence, enhanced agility is requested for the supply chains. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants that influence the position of the ‘decoupling points’ along the value chain, as according to the reviewed literature these represent the separation point between leanness and agility in a hybrid supply chain. It has been found that by applying different technical solutions along the chain, including breaking down the complete production process in modular sequences and outsourcing specific ones, considering reshaping the supply chain, the decoupling points’ location can be moved, allowing greater agility. The chosen methodology is a case study of a FMCG company, aiming to illustrate how increased agility is achieved by outsourcing labour-intensive and time consuming activities, while shortening the downstream to customer. The selected firm is since several years under Lean and Agile strategies implementation. The study shows that understanding both, material and information decoupling points, certain lean processes can be moved upstream, leveraging more agile processes close to the end customer. This way, supply chains can be redesigned towards increasing market responsiveness.
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