Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism

Supply Chain Management under the Threat of International Terrorism

On the morning of September 11, 2001, the United States and the Western world entered into a new era – one in which large scale terrorist acts are to be expected. The impacts of the new era will challenge supply chain managers to adjust relations with suppliers and customers, contend with transportation difficulties and amend inventory management strategies. This paper looks at the twin corpora...

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Issues on Environmental Responsibility in International Supply Chain Management

International supply chains have become a prevalent business concept since the global economic bloom in 1990s. As world energy crisis, climate changes and environmental degradation have become public addressed issues, managing environmental performance in the context of international supply chains is becoming highly relevant. The paper first addresses the fact that supply chains are getting inc...

Supply Chain Management in International Logistics – RFID Applications

The evolution of international transport is linked to the requirement of its customers and their needs. Modern logistics require compliance with a demand-based planning, hence the current management disciplines are grouped around the supply chain management (SCM) and seek to optimize the resources available to the transport, ie., ordering of supplies, time, cost and information. Production need...

Seeking Stability of Supply Chain Management Decisions under Uncertain Criteria

This paper tackles the question of the anticipation of the supply chain partner’s decisional behaviour under uncertain criteria. In other words, we propose a model to support sequential decisions under uncertainty where the decision maker has to make hypothesis about the decision criteria. For example, Hurwicz criterion weights extreme optimism and pessimism positions and a classic criticism of...