Rethinking supply chain strategy as a conceptual system

Tackling perioperative supply chain as a system.

A Conceptual Framework for Supply Chain Competitiveness

Information Abstract—The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance of the concept of competitiveness in the supply chain and to present a conceptual framework for Supply Chain Competitiveness (SCC). The framework is based on supply chain activities, which are inputs, necessary for SCC and the benefits which are the outputs of SCC. A literature review is conducted on key supply chain ...

Healthcare Supply Chain modeling: a conceptual framework

Number: 011-0231 Healthcare Supply Chain modeling: a conceptual framework D. BATTINI (*), M. FACCIO (**), A. PERSONA (*) (†), F. SGARBOSSA (*) (*) Department of Management and Engineering, University of Padova, Stradella San Nicola, 3 36100 Vicenza – Italy (**)Department of Innovation in Mechanics and Management, University of Padova, Via Venezia 1, 35131, Padova, Italy (†) Corresponding author...

Supply chain innovation : A conceptual framework

In today’s supply chain domain, there is a lot of attention focused on the concept of ‘supply chain innovation.’ This introductory paper aims to start a discussion about supply chain innovation, and as a first step we propose a conceptual framework for understanding the important factors that appear to affect the creation and implementation of innovation in the supply chain. Additionally, we ha...

Performance indicators for supply chain resilience: review and conceptual framework

In the current competitive and dynamic market, customer demands and interests are changing continuously, and hence, risk of disruption in the supply chain is also increasing. To be successful in this scenario, supply chain of a firm should be resilient. Most of the firms realize that with a specific end goal to develop a resilient supply chain, there is a need for assessment of performance. The...