Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets, agility has been considered as a fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival. To achieve the competitive edge, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. Consequently Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is considered as a dominant competitive advantage. H...

Purpose – Despite the increasing interests in supply chain management (SCM) within academy and industrial environment, there is still a lack of academic literature concerning topics such as methodologies to guide and support supply chain integration. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This article presents the application of a diagnosis method in a Brazilian c...

In today’s supply chain, the technology of RFID is become significantly important. Many researches have been published several articles over RFID. In this research, we have examined the major challenges, which faces by companies during implementation phase as well we also discuss the fruitful benefits of this technology’s blessings. RFID is consider as a backbone for information sharing process...

Recent advances in Auto-ID technology, especially RFID, provide great potential for the innovation of existing processes in Supply Chain Management (SCM). Accompanied with item level identification using the EPC, companies are able to capture product lifecycle information at unprecedented levels of detail. RFID readers placed at strategic points in the supply chain automatically capture informa...

the need for high-quality medical equipment in the hospital supply chain has more than ever demonstrated the necessity and importance of quality management to be implemented by administrators in line with the iranian health reform plan. in this study, the game theory was used to model the strategies chosen by companies supplying medical equipment to hospitals. considering the process of self-le...

Supply Chain Management and Logistics involves optimizing the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer. An effective supply chain makes companies competitive and profitable. Information is essential to making optimal supply chain decisions because it provides the global scope needed to make optimal decisions. Information technology (IT) provides the tools together t...

Today, companies need to make use of appropriate patterns such as supply chain management system to gain and preserve a position in competitive world-wide market. Supply chain is a large scaled network consists of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, retailers and final customers which are in coordination with each other in order to transform products from raw materials into finished goods wit...

Recent industry trends, including outsourcing, offshoring and lean manufacturing that focus on reducing supply chain costs, significantly increase the level of risk in the supply chain. At the same time, a number of leading companies have been successfully transforming their supply chains into robust and resilient supply chains. In this presentation, we examine sources of risks in the supply ch...

While there are separate streams of established research on lean production, agile organization, and sustainable supply chain, the idea is to address the intersection of these three strategic initiatives in order to find synergies and competitive advantage for companies. The goal of the mission is to explore the link between supply chain and sustainable development with the insights of two main...

The co-existence of large and small companies in nowadays supply chains may led to misunderstandings which are prejudicial to the supply chain performance. Based on several studies in aeronautical supply chains, we list some of typical problems linked to the relationship between large and small companies, and show how the solutions promoted by large companies may in some cases be inadequate. We...