http://hdl.handle.net/10398/103 2013-05-24T02:30:10Z 2013-05-24T02:30:10Z Prockl, Günter Gammelgaard, Britta http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8585 2012-11-21T14:57:42Z 2012-11-21T00:00:00Z

Sustainability and the Logistics Service Industry Prockl, Günter; Gammelgaard, Britta Sustainability in business is clearly recognized as a very important topic which is intensively discussed in theory and practice. (When it comes to the social and ecological aspects of sustainability, the logistics and transportation industry is often considered one of the prime suspects to be identified as a major polluter reluctant to implement changes and improvements. A workshop was designed and organized in the fall of 2011 to start a discussion on the role that the logistics service industry plays or should play in the sustainability business. The clear objective was to work on the issue – not from the viewpoint of politics and society, not from the viewpoint of industry and the retail sector, and not from that of academia ‐ but from the view of the logistics service providers. In other words, the workshop was designed to help develop a clear statement of the role of the logistics industry. A statement of the logistics industry’s role as the logistics industry understands it. This short paper recapitulates the red thread of the workshop discussions and ends with a summary. This summary is meant as a first draft of a manifest of the industry regarding their view towards the topic of sustainability. It provides statements in response to four basic questions regarding sustainability. As this manifest is made by a focused, but in size and geography limited group, it is of course not representative. Therefore we would like to encourage everyone from the industry in addition to those from outside the industry to support us with comments. Tell us if and why you agree or not, and how we could improve and augment the statements made.

2012-11-21T00:00:00Z Christiansen, Ulrik Kjærgaard, Annemette Hartmann, Rasmus Koss http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8364 2011-11-18T13:17:01Z 2011-11-18T00:00:00Z

Working in the Shadows Christiansen, Ulrik; Kjærgaard, Annemette; Hartmann, Rasmus Koss Organizations are met with increasing demands for being in strategic control. According to conventional managerial wisdom, clearly defined tasks, uniform processes, thorough documentation and strategic oversight are all perceived as part and parcel of making large and unwieldy organizations manageable, transparent and efficient (Johnson, Scholes, & Whittington, 2008; Kaplan & Norton, 2008). To live up to these demands, numerous efforts have been undertaken, including the design and implementation of management information systems. These systems, as epitomized in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, seek to bring the organization under strategic control by creating a unified infrastructure for collecting and analyzing data from virtually all fields of organizational operations to enable planning and monitoring of activities (Kallinikos, 2006). Expectations of these systems at all levels of the organization are high as they are expected to create organizational transparency and oversight for decision making (Hanseth, Ciborra, & Braa, 2001). In this paper, we explore how ERP systems are used and impact local practice in a specialized unit within The Danish Defense. Specifically, we ask what role SAP R/31 plays in enabling and constraining everyday local practice and the handling of complexity and uncertainty at the organizational front‐line. We draw on a case study conducted in a special operations force unit within the Danish Defense, “The Frogman Corps”. The case illuminates the difficulties of using ERP systems for management control in organizations experiencing complex operational conditions, including tension between centralized control and uniformity on the one hand and unpredictability and need for decentralized decision making on the other hand.

2011-11-18T00:00:00Z Bøge Sørensen, Lars http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6298 2011-09-08T07:14:06Z 2004-04-30T00:00:00Z

The design of supply chains Bøge Sørensen, Lars Keywords Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Design, Literature study Abstract Argues stability is a design objective for supply chain design alongside cost, lead time and responsiveness. Performs an extensive literature study on supply chain design, identifies methods, theories and objectives in the existing literature. Describes the concept external specificity and how it’s used to design supply chains. Using the concept upstream, archetypes of risk minimal and maximal design are identified. Downstream the concept describes two viable scenarios, one minimizing the impact, the other minimizing the probability of (intended) departure of a supply chain partner. Finally, principles for supply chain design are described and managerial outlined.

2004-04-30T00:00:00Z Nielsen, Steen Melander, Preben Jakobsen, Morten http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6297 2011-09-08T07:13:58Z 2003-12-04T00:00:00Z

Undersøgelse af moderne økonomistyringsværktøjer i Danmark 2001 Nielsen, Steen; Melander, Preben; Jakobsen, Morten Artiklen er resultatet af en undersøgelse af 154 virksomheder foretaget indenfor et samlebegreb, der her benævnes 'Moderne Økonomistyrings-Værktøjer' (MØV). MØV omfatter her: Activity Based Costing, Activity Based Management, target costing, lifecycle- costing, kaizen costing, Total Quality Management, ikkefinansielle performance mål, quality costing, cost of engineering, strategic costing, Business Excellence Modellen, Balanced Scorecard, videnregnskab, Economic Value Added, samt Shareholder Value. Disse begreber er udvalgt, da de vurderes at være de mest kendte og mest omdiskuterede såvel i teorien som i praksis. De inkluderede værktøjer er således ikke udtømmende for listen af nyere økonomistyringskoncepter og ledelsesmodeller. Data er indsamlet ved hjælp af et spørgeskema udsendt dels postalt dels via e-mails. Formålet har været at få en form for state-of-the-art viden på området. Dette betyder, at der kun er få forklarende virksomhedsvariable inddraget. Undersøgelsen viser bl.a., at økonomistyringen i disse år bevæger sig ind på nye områder, men at dette kun sker langsomt og med et rimeligt stort time-lag til følge, i forhold til hvornår et given koncept første gang blev eksponeret i litteraturen. Et andet resultat er, at ABC og Balanced Scorecard rangerer på et højt niveau, når man ser på kendskab, hvorimod Kaizen Costing og Strategic Costing ligger forholdsvist lavt, trods det faktum, at disse i teorien har været kendt i langt længere tid. Dog ser det ud til, at de sidstnævnte mere tekniske og mere veldefinerede koncepter umiddelbart giver en større nytte. Et tredje resultat er, at trods relativt godt kendskab og en positiv holdning,er den konkrete anvendelse af koncepterne langt mindre end først antaget.

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