Coordination is considered a fundamental element to achieve a better supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in today turbulent business environment. Supply chain coordination requires that all stages to take actions to maximise the global supply chain profit. Coordination is then an integral part of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. The SCM approach is the systemic strategic coordi...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a strategic paradigm to coordinate cash, material, and information flows from raw material to customer. Supply chain simulation (SCS) is a strong and popular tool for designing, evaluating, and optimizing the structure of supply chains, and it requires an important task to estimate the effect of the planning to coordinate such flows in SCM. Stochastic natures ex...

K. Dohn, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Zabrze, Poland A basic element of supply chain management is the holistic or system view. Following this perspective supply chain management has to analyse the supply chain as a whole and must not only c oncentrate on details or speciĀ c elements. The conĀ gurational approach is one method for realizing this...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that is leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today’s supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationships among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. This paper presents a flexible architecture for de...

This paper presents an extended abstract of the author’s doctoral research project on developing a multi-agent intelligent system for automatic managing supply chains. Supply chain management (SCM) is a very complex and dynamic environment. The doctoral work, which started in October 2005, is dedicated to finding better solutions for successful performance in the domain of real-time SCM.

Supply Chain Management (SCM) refers to the problems where the decisions of supply, production and demand are integrated in a single framework. A typical supply chain faces uncertainty in terms of supply, production and demand. Therefore, SCM is largely about managing uncertainty and risks. This paper introduces a simulationand optimisation-based decision support system that helps the scheduler...

Resource allocation (RA) and supplier selection (SS) are two major decision problems regarding supply chain management (SCM). A supply chain manager may solve these problems by considering a single criterion, for instance, costs, customer satisfaction, or delivery time. Applying analytic hierarchy process (AHP), the supply chain manager may combine such criteria to enhance a compromised solutio...

Abstract Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) and its deployment for modelling purposes in the area of supply chain management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach- The literature is examined from the three perspectives. First, concept of ISM and examines ISM as modelling technique. Second, use of ISM by ...

Supply chains increasingly have to cope with heterogeneous customer needs related to the performance areas of supply chain management (SCM), e.g. delivery reliability, delivery time, and availability. ‘One-size-fits-all’ supply chains that are predominant in reality are often not very effective and efficient. In order to better meet customer needs, supply chains can be segmented so that they ha...

Supply chain management information systems (SCM IS) have become vital tools for synchronising information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain. However, recent advances in inter-enterprise systems and e-business technologies have led to a confusing variety of SCM IS alternatives, each with varying capabilities. This paper demonstrates how a business unit’s competitive strategy p...