SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INTEGRATION - DOI:10.5585/RAI.2010301

Knowledge management in construction supply chain integration

Knowledge Management (KM) is becoming increasingly important for organisations across a wide spectrum of industry sectors, especially for the naturally fragmented construction industry. There has been a growing realisation that it is very important for each project participant to effectively capture, share and utilise strategic knowledge and project knowledge, as well as process knowledge withi...

Integration Middleware for Mobile Supply Chain Management

According to the mobile supply chain management features and considering the limitations and obstacles in the mobile environment. This paper proposes a multi-agent integration middleware for mobile supply chain management, aiming to solve information integration and data synchronization problem without worrying about network or terminal heterogeneity in mobile environment, which can achieve mob...

Quality Management and Supply Chain Management Integration: A Conceptual Model

Recent trends in the business world has forced companies to expand their activities into new regions where they can find qualified manpower, lower production costs, high availability of raw materials giving rise to wider and more complex supply chains but also bringing in new opportunities to leverage their competitive advantages. These changes require the implementation of new organizational m...

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A conceptual framework for supply chain management: a structural integration

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to document the research on development of a conceptual framework for the supply chain. The aims of the research were to develop an integrated framework, and to provide a methodology for planning of many components in the supply chain such as suppliers, materials, resources, warehouses, activities and customers. The proposed framework is based on the ...