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Analyis of the Structure and Impact of SCM Advanced Planning System : Lessons from POSCO Case (SCM 첨단계획수립시스템의 구조와 도입효과 분석 : 포스코 사례를 중심으로)

  • No, Gyeong Ho;Park, Seong Taek;Kim, Tae Ung
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.145-155
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    • 2014
  • POSCO has been chosen as the most competitive steelmaker in the world, for the 4th year in a row. It's potentials and key success points lay at technology innovation as well as effective partnerships with suppliers and customers. Partnership with suppliers is based upon the effective supply chain management. While ERP system supports the standard business work flows, the biggest impact on business performance is created by exceptions and variability. A SCM Advanced Planning System reduces the amount of exceptional situations, helping to keep business in a standard mode of operation. A case summary on SCM Advanced Planning System of POSCO as well as its impact on firm performances is presented. As a supplement to this case study, we also investigate the employees' perceived level of SCM-related factors, including information sharing, collaboration, incentive system for suppliers and their impacts on SCM performances. As a conclusion, the practical implications of these findings are discussed.

Analysis of Factors Influencing on Food Supplier Selection Criteria in the Health-care Foodservice Operations (의료기관의 식자재 공급자 선정기준에 영향을 미치는 요인 분석)

  • Kim, Jeong-Ri;Choe, Seong-Gyeong;Gwak, Dong-Gyeong
    • Journal of the Korean Dietetic Association
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.372-386
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    • 2002
  • The purposes of this study were to find factor which influence on the selection criteria of food supplier. Questionnaire were distributed to 52 general hospitals with more than 400 beds located in Seoul and Kyongin province, and responded questionnaires were collected from 44 dietetic departments (84.6%) and 18 purchasing departments (34.6%). The main results of this study can be summarized as follows: (1) supplier selection criteria include quality, service, cost and supplier competency. (2) With having been met with tight competition and market opening, hospitals plan a strategy to improve quality, service and they tend to have more interest in various supplier selection criteria. (3) Purchasing departments estimate more highly the rate of reflection in considering supplier selection criteria than the rate of importance about cost criteria, which reveals that purchasing departments sensitively respond to cost cutdown. (4) When selecting suppliers, a significant(p<.01) influence of stability of supplier industry environment on the selecting criteria such as the importances of quality, service, and supplier quality are recognized only after recognizing the stability of food delivery industry. Food supplier industry secures stability more quickly through major companies' participation in food distribution industry and this will reveal the importance of supplier selection criteria. (5) Suppliers which are selected by the quality criteria, service criteria, supplier quality criteria make efforts to communicate with foodservice departments, to give more proper information about substitute food, new product, and to make commitments, while suppliers which are decided by cost criteria do not establish supportive relationships with foodservice departments.

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A Study on the Problems of the Occupants on the Purchasing Housing (住宅 取得시 發生하는 消費者 問題와 對應行動에 관한 硏究)

  • Cho, Hyeon-Kyeong;Kang, Soon-Joo
    • Journal of Families and Better Life
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    • v.10 no.1 s.19
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    • pp.139-156
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of this study is to provide basic data for the solution of occupant problems related to the house purchasing. For the purpose, the content of problems and actual conditions of house purchasing are examined. Also the structural analysis of occupant's evaluation of housing purchasing is executed. For these purposes, a survey was conducted using questionnaires. Data analysis was conducted from 263 house owners in Seoul. Major findings of this study can be summarized as follows ; 1) The frequency and the contend of occupation's problems with house purchasing are studied. The rate of housing problem occurrence is 71.2%, so the majority of respondents experience problems. The most common problems are the difference from supplier's description(53.2%). The rate of housing problems occurrence is qenerally high with the houses of mult-housedhold houses and mult-family houses type. 2) There is a significant difference in housing satisfaction extend according to the existence of an housing problem experience. Therefore, it can be inferred that experience of housing problem has an important effects upon the housing satasfaction extent. 3) Occupants' countermoves to the housing problems are examined. Occupants make active regotiation with house suppliers only on the direct damages such as an economical loss or a living difficulty. However, they usually make no countermove at all on the other indirect troubles. House suppliers make correction only when occupants' countermove actively, but refuse to do when occupant's reactions are not active. 4) As a means of countermove, most occupants depend on direct personal regotiation with house suppliers. The rate of using a specialist or public and private consultant is extremely low. 5) Problems with house purchasing and the countermove process of both occupant and house supplier are displayed in the figure(Fig. 4-4).

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An Investigation into Perceptions of Potential Customers in Busan towards Well-being Apartments (웰빙 아파트에 대한 부산지역 잠재 수요자의 인식 조사)

  • Kim Ju-Hyung;Bin Ju-Yeong;Oh Seung-Moon
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.5 no.6 s.22
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    • pp.154-161
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    • 2004
  • The term 'well-being' which becomes a popular trend in various industries has been introduced in the housing market as well. This trend could be understood as an emerging trend rooted to customers' preference for apartment enabling residents to live comfortably and healthy in 2000s. The housing industry has attempted to meet customers' requirements by presenting' well-being apartments' emphasizing healthy and natural-friendly aspects. For instance, suppliers in the industry has adopted master plans and unit plans to support well-being residence. In addition, they introduced less-toxic-emission materials to interior However, it has been unknown that customers in the housing market also agree to well-being functions presented by suppliers and, if then, which aspects they consider mon important In order to answer questions stated above, a research to investigate perceptions of potential customers in Busan towards well-being apartments is designed and this paper is a summarized result. Based on the real-world investigations, the important functions or concepts relevant to well-being apartments perceived by customers are defined and suppliers' approach to meet these Is presented.

Possibilities of Technological Convergence by ICT Suppliers: An Empirical Study on Automotive Industry (ICT 공급자에 의한 기술 융합의 가능성: 자동차 산업에서의 실증적 연구)

  • Ham, Kyung Sun;Jung, Jae Won;Lee, Jung Hoon
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.103-126
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    • 2017
  • By the means of pervasiveness of ICT, ICT firms in the dynamic competition try to get the competitive advantage through the combination with the other industrial technologies and the firms in other industries also seek innovations in this way. To ICT suppliers, the application industries were completely different before but if ICT is applied to that industries once, the convergence phenomenon could occur as a part of an ICT industry. So, this research focuses the causality between ICT supplier's behavior and technological convergence according to the research question about what should ICT firms do for ICT convergence. We observed technological changes in the automotive industry through the Nasdaq listed firms' patent activities of 10-year period from the perspective of evolutionary theory. As a result, while the innovativeness of technological trials by ICT suppliers enhances the possibility of technological convergence, diversity of those can reduce the emergence of ICT convergence. This implies that ICT firms should focus specialized technologies for convergence rather than various technological options for the uncertain future.

The Assessment of Food Supplier's Work Importance and Performance (초등학교 농산물 공급업자의 업무 수행수준과 업무중요도 분석)

  • Eun, Jung-Youn;Lee, Jin-Sil
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.407-415
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    • 2001
  • The purposes of this study were to assess th importance and performance of food suppliers and to explore the ways to improve the school foodservice purchasing management. The questionnaire regarding purchasing was composed of two parts. The part one consisted of questions on general characteristics of dieticians and school foodservice operations, and the part two was composed of questions on the importance & performance of food suppliers. Completed questionnaires were received from 286 dieticians of elementary school foodservice operations in Seoul. Statistical data analysis was completed using the SPSS/win for descriptive and t-test. In dieticians' demographic data, 36.6% were over 30 years old, 32.4% were $28{\sim}29$ years of age and 31.0% were below 27years old. Most of the respondents(68.3%) had overall working experiences less than 58 months and almost half of them(56.3%) were married. The school foodservice operations which employed a chef were 50.3%. The food suppliers' attributes that were recognized by the dieticians with high value of mean importance scores were: food quality, maintenance of food quality, accuracy in filling orders, quality of delivery facilities, on time delivery and packaging. Average mean score for importance was 4.33('important') out of 5 and mean score for performance was 3.50('so-so') out of 5. By IPA techniques, the attributes that deserve higher attention were those that ranked high in importance and low in performance(Quadrant A). The coordinates in Quadrant A were geographical location of supplier, maintenance of food quality, provision of information on cost variation and salesman's knowledge.

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Relationship between Experience of Requesting Verification of Healthcare Benefit Coverage and Patients' Trust in Physicians and Hospitals (진료비 확인 민원신청 경험과 의사 및 의료기관에 대한 신뢰도와의 관련성)

  • Hahm, Myung-Il;Min, Insoon
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.289-300
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    • 2013
  • Background: Patients' trust in their physicians or hospitals is important to guarantee the effectiveness of care and to encourage revisits. This study aimed to identify the relationship between the experience of requesting verification of healthcare benefit coverage via the Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) and patients' trust in their physicians or hospitals. Methods: For this population-based study, 800 adult respondents aged 20 to 65 years were recruited using random sampling and telephone surveys. Respondents were divided into two groups: 1) 400 people had experience in requesting the HIRA verification service for the purpose of confirmation of whether the costs they paid were appropriate among metropolitan habitants, and 2) 400 people comprised members of the public who had no experience requesting the verification service. Results: Experience with requesting verification services was likely to lower the patients' trust in medical institutions, but not in their physicians (p<0.05). In addition, patients who were satisfied with their physicians and hospitals were more likely to trust the physicians and hospitals than dissatisfied patients. Conclusion: Patients' trust might be an important factor influencing hospital success. Patients' trust in medical suppliers, such as physicians and hospitals, encourages a positive relationship between medical suppliers and patients. Therefore, medical suppliers must provide appropriate care to patients to improve patients' trust in them.

A Study on Sizes Specifications of Infants' Apparels (유아복(乳兒服)브랜드 치수규격(値數規格) 실태(實態) 조사(調査) 연구(硏究) II)

  • Kim, Jin;Sohn, Hee-Soon
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 1999
  • The purpose of this study is to survey and analyze the general conditions of infants' apparel brands in Korea, review the sizes and specifications of each brand, analyze the differences and correlations among brands, and thereby, present the reasonable sizes and specifications for infants' apparels in consideration of domestic and foreign specifications and infants' health conditions. for this purpose, 13 brands manufacturing the apparels for the infants aged from 0 to 4 were sampled, and their design directors and outside pattern suppliers were surveyed through direct interviews. The collected data were processed for frequencies, mean, median and mode. The results of this study can be summarized as follows; 1. The sample infants' apparel brands were mostly launched as national brands in 1990's, while their target ages were diverse : 0 $\sim$ 72 months, 0 $\sim$ 36 months, 0 $\sim$ 48 months, 0 $\sim$ 60 months, 12 $\sim$ 24 months, etc. 2. More brands were restructuring the pattern suppliers' sizes and specifications rather than developing them directly, which suggests that most of infants' brands depend much on pattern suppliers. 3. Infants' apparel brands were presenting the 'space suites' sized from #60 to #90 because consumers prefer those space suites distinct in their upper and lower parts and convenient for their toddlers aged 36 months or older. The brands were setting the sizes for 6 parts: total length, breast, sleeve length, hip, hip height, leg. 4. The sizes for infants' one-pieces were #70, #75, #80, #85, #90, #95, #100, #110 and #120, while their subsizes were determined for 4 parts: total length, breast, sleeve length, hip.

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A Profile Tolerance Usage in GD&T for Precision Manufacturing (정밀제조를 위한 기하공차에서의 윤곽공차 사용)

  • Kim, Kyung-Wook;Chang, Sung-Ho
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.40 no.2
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    • pp.145-149
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    • 2017
  • One of the challenges facing precision manufacturers is the increasing feature complexity of tight tolerance parts. All engineering drawings must account for the size, form, orientation, and location of all features to ensure manufacturability, measurability, and design intent. Geometric controls per ASME Y14.5 are typically applied to specify dimensional tolerances on engineering drawings and define size, form, orientation, and location of features. Many engineering drawings lack the necessary geometric dimensioning and tolerancing to allow for timely and accurate inspection and verification. Plus-minus tolerancing is typically ambiguous and requires extra time by engineering, programming, machining, and inspection functions to debate and agree on a single conclusion. Complex geometry can result in long inspection and verification times and put even the most sophisticated measurement equipment and processes to the test. In addition, design, manufacturing and quality engineers are often frustrated by communication errors over these features. However, an approach called profile tolerancing offers optimal definition of design intent by explicitly defining uniform boundaries around the physical geometry. It is an efficient and effective method for measurement and quality control. There are several advantages for product designers who use position and profile tolerancing instead of linear dimensioning. When design intent is conveyed unambiguously, manufacturers don't have to field multiple question from suppliers as they design and build a process for manufacturing and inspection. Profile tolerancing, when it is applied correctly, provides manufacturing and inspection functions with unambiguously defined tolerancing. Those data are manufacturable and measurable. Customers can see cost and lead time reductions with parts that consistently meet the design intent. Components can function properly-eliminating costly rework, redesign, and missed market opportunities. However a supplier that is poised to embrace profile tolerancing will no doubt run into resistance from those who would prefer the way things have always been done. It is not just internal naysayers, but also suppliers that might fight the change. In addition, the investment for suppliers can be steep in terms of training, equipment, and software.