Ethical supply chains: analysis, practices and performance measures

Industrial Supply Chains: Performance Measures, Metrics and Benchmarks

Industrial organizations are moving toward more integrated supply chains (SCs) to remain competitive. To be effectively designed and managed, these SCs need to be measured and evaluated in a consistent way. The formal definition of different metrics, benchmarks and performance related concepts will facilitate the measurement process and enable the effective communication among the SC stakeholde...

Performance Analysis of Supply Chains using Queueing Models

Supply chains are formed out of complex interactions amongst several enterprises whose aim is to produce and transport goods so that customer desired products are sold at various retail outlets. Computing the total average cycle time for customer orders entering such a complex network of systems is an important exercise. In this paper, we present analytical models for evaluating the average lea...

Interorganizational Cost Management in Supply Chains: Practices and Payoffs

M A N A G E M E N T A C C O U N T I N G Q U A R T E R L Y S P R I N G 2 0 1 4 , V O L . 1 5 , N O . 3 I t is generally accepted that one of management’s primary roles is to optimize profits by controlling costs effectively. This includes costs associated with operating the day-today business, such as those related to labor, materials, and administrative functions, as well as more strategic cost...

Measuring supply chain performance measures - prioritizing performance measures

Supply chain and supply chain management has been widely described in literature. There are many articles and papers that present concept and terms related to the internal or external integrated supply chain. Some of these published articles contain descriptive models that usually divide the flows of supply chains into steps or phases and indicate how they are related. Meanwhile other articles ...

Green supply chain management practices and performance