abstract nowadays supply chain management has become one of the powerful business concepts for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in global market. this is the reason that now competition between the firms has been replaced by competitiveness among the supply chains. moreover, the popular literature dealing with supply chain is replete with discussions of leanness and agility. agile ...

Supply chain performances have been touted as improving the performance of organizations which participates in advance planning system. As a result, managers not only to re-establish their companies produce higher-quality products and services, decrease waste, respond rapidly market, but also handle supply efficiently. However, has received attention focused on adaptation technology facilitate ...

Although interorganizational information system can facilitate supply chain integration and supply chain agility, unintended outcomes may occur if partners possess distinct knowledge about the use of IOS. Based on Foucault’s theory of power/knowledge, institutional theory and resource dependence theory, we analyze how various power relations work together to facilitate the institutionalization ...

Risk and uncertainty are ubiquitous and varied in agri-food supply chains. As environment volatility increases, only having capabilities to manage agri-food supply chain risks may not be enough, resilience factors also need to be integrated into daily operations. This paper undertakes a systematic literature review on risks sources and resilience factors in agri-food supply chains. A five-stage...

This paper studies the potential benefits of collaborative forecasting (CF) partnerships in a supply chain that consists of a manufacturer and a retailer. To reflect the reality in production environments, we propose a scorecard that captures inventory considerations, production smoothing, and adherence-to-plans. We present a prescriptive convex-cost production planning model for the manufactur...

Pierre Mercier is a partner with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and leads the firm’s supply chain practice. He can be reached at mercier.pierre@bcg. com. Harold Sirkin ([email protected]) is a senior partner at BCG and Jennifer Bratton ([email protected]) is a principal at the firm. A s the recent global recession deepened, some industries saw sales decline by 40 percent or more. Cas...

Supply chain management is comprehensive software. Due to its scope and unpredictable, complex and unstable requirements, it is not possible to develop it with predictable development process models. Agile methodologies are targeted towards such kind of problems that involves change and uncertainty, and are adaptive rather than predictive. The aim of this paper is to analyze the management and ...

Purpose The COVID-19 outbreak has imposed extensive shocks embracing all stages of the food supply chain (FSC). Although magnitude is still unfolding, FSC responds with remarkable speed, to mitigate disruptive consequences and sustain operations. This paper aims investigate how operationalising agility (SCA) practices occurred amid crisis expectations for those could transform in post-COVID-19 ...