Improving Supply Chain Activities and introducing auditing in Small-to-Medium Enterprises in the publishing industry in Russia
Egorova, Marina (2020)
Egorova, Marina
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202104074305
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202104074305
Tiivistelmä
The analysis of the supply chain management processes of small to medium enterprises is known to be complicated by the factors dependent on the organization-related problems, in particular, the mix keeping of records, myopic managerial approaches of SMEs decision-makers, and a lack of long-term focus for business operations As such, small to medium enterprise companies in the publishing field are supposed to experience a gradual recession due to the continuously decreasing demand on print products. Nevertheless, the top management of the majority of SMEs in this business sector does not seem to be bothered by the inevitable decline they are facing in the nearest future.
Therefore, this study aims to discover the vital solutions for an SME balancing between business life and death and implying the package of never-worked-though struggles, either business-, supply chain-, or even managerial psychology-oriented. The study utilizes various complex combinations of methodological approaches in order to identify not only the bottlenecks and the singular struggles, but also the overall patterns a typical SME tends to unconsciously follow. In addition to the theoretical problem-solving techniques successfully applied for the identification of root causes, a case study with a real SME in the publishing field was conducted and the theoretically elaborated solution was implemented in real life.
Therefore, this study aims to discover the vital solutions for an SME balancing between business life and death and implying the package of never-worked-though struggles, either business-, supply chain-, or even managerial psychology-oriented. The study utilizes various complex combinations of methodological approaches in order to identify not only the bottlenecks and the singular struggles, but also the overall patterns a typical SME tends to unconsciously follow. In addition to the theoretical problem-solving techniques successfully applied for the identification of root causes, a case study with a real SME in the publishing field was conducted and the theoretically elaborated solution was implemented in real life.