The High Cost of Calling: Critical Issues in the Mobile Phone Industry

Wilde-Ramsing, Joseph; Haan, Esther de

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“…For instance, Nokia, Motorola, and Ericsson are the largest outsourcers in the mobile phone industry with 15%-66% of their production outsourced [17,18]. Olhager et al [19] introduced a mobile phone supply chain, including raw material producers, material fabricators, factories, distributors, retail shops, and consumers.…”

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“…To reduce production costs and, consequently, improve the competitiveness of mobile phone manufacturers, most productionplanning decision problems in this eld that can be found in the literature involve minimization of total manufacturing costs [5,6,12,18]. To minimize total manufacturing cost, decision models must account for both inventory holding and penalty costs.…”

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the mobile phone manufacturing sector by using a novel fuzzy multi-objective programming model

Lin

2016

Scientia Iranica

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Abstract. This work presents a novel Fuzzy Multi-Objective Programming (FMOP)model with a modi ed S-curve membership function capable of solving integrated multicomponent, multi-supplier, and multi-time-period production planning problems by using fuzzy objectives for the mobile phone manufacturing sector. The proposed model attempts to minimize total manufacturing, total inventory holding, and total penalty costs, simultaneously, in relation to manufacturer/supplier capacity and warehouse space. Additionally, the proposed model provides a systematic means of facilitating the fuzzy decision-making process and enabling decision makers to interactively adjust the search direction during the solution procedure in order to obtain the preferred satisfactory solution of a Decision Maker (DM). Moreover, adequacy of the proposed model is demonstrated based on an implementation design involving several scenarios of manufacturing production system for mobile phones. Analytical results provide a valuable reference for decision managers attempting to more thoroughly understand the systematic analysis and potential of cost-e ective production planning.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Fuzzy Multi-objective Programming (Fmop) Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the mobile phone manufacturing sector by using a novel fuzzy multi-objective programming model

Lin

2016

Scientia Iranica

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“…In 2005, the mobile industry outsourced overall 30 percent of manufacturing to other countries, which is relatively low compared to that of the laptop assembly industry, Supply chains framework which outsourced 80 percent of production to other countries (Wilde-Ramsing and Haan, 2006). The major reasons why the mobile industry shows a comparatively lower rate of outsourcing are the lower degree of standardization, the variety of design platforms, and the complexity of products due to ongoing technological innovation in the industry.…”

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Extending the efficient and responsive supply chains framework to the green context

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Yang²,

Roh³

2012

Benchmarking: An International Journal

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to develop research frameworks for two types of green supply chains based on Fisher's seminal work. In spite of Fisher's contribution to the literature, his study has rarely been extended into green supply chain contexts, except in a few conceptual arguments. The current study explores how Fisher's perspective of efficient versus responsive supply chains can be a stepping stone to the development of two green supply chains: eco-efficient and eco-responsive supply chains. Design/methodology/approach -Toward the above end, a case methodology is employed (Yin). Two Korean global companies, Pohang Iron and Steel Company (POSCO) and Samsung Electronics (SEC), are selected to explore eco-efficient and eco-responsive supply chains. POSCO (steel products) is selected to enable the understanding of how efficient and eco-efficient supply chains work. SEC (mobile phone products) is chosen to understand responsive and eco-responsive supply chains. Findings -The findings suggest that POSCO tends to stress process technology innovation as a means to address green pressures, while SEC accentuates the green product strategy; while an eco-efficient supply chain focuses on keeping to an environmental standard across the supply chains, an eco-responsive supply chain centers on the collaboration of suppliers and distributors in greening the supply chain; and SEC takes more initiatives to educate and encourage consumers to engage in recycling activities than POSCO does. Originality/value -Few studies have examined the green supply chain using the perspective of Fisher's framework (efficient vs responsive supply chains). By addressing the timely topic, this study fills a research gap in green supply chain literature.

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“…See, for instance, Wilde-Ramsing and deHaan, 2006; China Labor Watch, 2011; Smith, 2016, 22-31; Merchant, 2017, Chapter 12; and, on precariat workers under global capitalism in general, Standing, 2011. Smith (2016 further argues that workers' contributions are erased in economic data: "trade, GDP, and financial flow data show no trace of any such contribution; instead, the bulk of the value realized in the sale of these commodities and all of the profits reaped by the retail giants appear to originate in the country where they are consumed" (13).…”

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Apple “Porn”: Design Videos as Seduction and Exploitation

Ferriss

2018

CRCP

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In addition to broadcast commercials, Apple creates design videos-screened at Apple launch events and developers' conferences, and simulcast on the Internet and streaming on Apple TV-as a second-order of promotional activity. They are not nationally broadcast commercials but advertising disguised as how-itsmade documentaries. Purportedly, they document design and manufacturing, but, ironically and tellingly, they do little, if anything at all, to reveal actual work. As this article demonstrates, they fetishize the manufacturing process of a commodity that is already fetishized: the iPhone. The videos simulate cinematically both the device and its manufacturing process, making both the object and its creation appear self-directed, uncoupled from human agency. As such, more than the corporation's commercials, they seduce viewers into accepting a fantasy world of enchanted technological devices uncoupled from the realities of labor, including exploitative working conditions, making the design videos a form of Apple "porn."

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The High Cost of Calling: Critical Issues in the Mobile Phone Industry

Cited by 5 publications

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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the mobile phone manufacturing sector by using a novel fuzzy multi-objective programming model

Cost-effectiveness analysis of the mobile phone manufacturing sector by using a novel fuzzy multi-objective programming model

Extending the efficient and responsive supply chains framework to the green context

Apple “Porn”: Design Videos as Seduction and Exploitation

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