Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms

Malaysia’s manufacturing sales value rose 2.6 % or RM43.78 billion in June 2007 from RM42.66 billion registered in the same month last year ( Department of Statistics). Contribution from manufacturing sectors in GDP shows that manufacturing has become the second most importan...

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Main Authors: Omain, Siti Zaleha, Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar, Md. Salleh, Norzafir, Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah
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spelling my.utm.147852017-08-14T01:12:09Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14785/ Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms Omain, Siti Zaleha Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar Md. Salleh, Norzafir Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah HF Commerce Malaysia’s manufacturing sales value rose 2.6 % or RM43.78 billion in June 2007 from RM42.66 billion registered in the same month last year ( Department of Statistics). Contribution from manufacturing sectors in GDP shows that manufacturing has become the second most important sector in the Malaysian economy which accounted for RM47, 458 billion (Department of Statistics). Electrical and Electronic (E&E) Industry remain the main contributors from manufacturing sector to Malaysia’s GDP. In addition, E&E products, valued at RM125.2 billion remained the largest export revenue earner which was valued at RM22.4 billion or 38% of total export. However, competition in the electronics industry is fierce, driven by decreasing technological innovation cycle time. Therefore, methods for implementing and controlling production have changed. Players along the supply chain have undertaken critical roles in a firm’s competitive advantage (Sudarjat, 2007). Thus, as pointed out by many researchers, competition is no longer so much among firms, but among supply chains. Penerbit UTM Press 2009 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14785/1/SitiZalehaOmain2009_SupplyChainManagementPracticesinMalaysian.pdf Omain, Siti Zaleha and Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar and Md. Salleh, Norzafir and Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah (2009) Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms. In: Contemporary Issues in Marketing. Penerbit UTM Press, Skudai, Johor, pp. 167-189. ISBN 978-983-52-0717-4
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Omain, Siti Zaleha
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
Md. Salleh, Norzafir
Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah
Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
description Malaysia’s manufacturing sales value rose 2.6 % or RM43.78 billion in June 2007 from RM42.66 billion registered in the same month last year ( Department of Statistics). Contribution from manufacturing sectors in GDP shows that manufacturing has become the second most important sector in the Malaysian economy which accounted for RM47, 458 billion (Department of Statistics). Electrical and Electronic (E&E) Industry remain the main contributors from manufacturing sector to Malaysia’s GDP. In addition, E&E products, valued at RM125.2 billion remained the largest export revenue earner which was valued at RM22.4 billion or 38% of total export. However, competition in the electronics industry is fierce, driven by decreasing technological innovation cycle time. Therefore, methods for implementing and controlling production have changed. Players along the supply chain have undertaken critical roles in a firm’s competitive advantage (Sudarjat, 2007). Thus, as pointed out by many researchers, competition is no longer so much among firms, but among supply chains.
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author Omain, Siti Zaleha
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
Md. Salleh, Norzafir
Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah
author_facet Omain, Siti Zaleha
Abdul Hamid, Abu Bakar
Md. Salleh, Norzafir
Mohd. Noran, Nurul Izzah
author_sort Omain, Siti Zaleha
title Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
title_short Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
title_full Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
title_fullStr Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
title_full_unstemmed Supply chain management practices in Malaysian manufacturing firms
title_sort supply chain management practices in malaysian manufacturing firms
publisher Penerbit UTM Press
publishDate 2009
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/14785/1/SitiZalehaOmain2009_SupplyChainManagementPracticesinMalaysian.pdf
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