Supply chain management (SCM) has become one of the most popular and fastest growing areas in management. One major issue of SCM is the proper design of supply chains to serve customers effectively (high customer service) and efficiently (at low costs). This is particularly difficult as companies nowadays face a series of challenges like shrinking product life cycles, the proliferation of produ...

Globalization of the economy, e-business, and introduction of new technologies pose new challenges to all organizations especially for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In this scenario, successful implementation of supply chain management (SCM) can give SMEs an edge over their competitors. However, SMEs in India and other developing countries face problems in SCM implementation due to lack ...

The Internet combined with mobile technologies and wireless devices permit organizations to access widely distributed information that is not restricted by business-unit or organizational boundaries. Large volume and high frequency data exchange as well as a wide variety of data sources characterize the new Business-to-Business commerce environments. Supply chain management (SCM) is very import...

Supply chain performance is often equated with acquiring the best technology or process. However, current studies suggest that supply chain performance also requires human collaboration. To change conventional thinking, this paper proposes a holistic approach to supply chain management (SCM), clarifies the forces that facilitate human collaboration, and identifies the steps management can take ...

Supply Chain Management Information Systems (SCM IS) are increasingly critical for synchronizing information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain. Wide variation and overlap in the functionality of different SCM IS makes analysis and comparison difficult. Traditional flat taxonomies using one or two dimensions of functionality have limited utility for software selection and analy...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the integration and strategic alliance involving all the value-creating elements in the supply, manufacturing, and distribution processes from raw material extraction, the transformation process, and end user consumption. This paper explores the SCM activities carried out by electronic manufacturing organizations in Malaysia and determines the correlation betwee...

Since the middle of the 1990’s, the researchers and people within the construction industry have moved towards Supply Chain Management (SCM) philosophy in order to make construction industry more effective and more efficient. The main driver behind the adoption of this philosophy was the successes within other industry sectors. SCM can be defined as network of different organisations, linked up...

The evolution from an information-based economy to a knowledge-based society requires higher education to produce intellectual outputs to match market and society needs by adjusting its educational process and praxis. Curriculum, as a core factor in refining this process, is therefore a key part of the transformation. Practices of Knowledge Management (KM) or Supply-Chain Management (SCM) have ...

Data, information and knowledge are critical assets to the performance of logistics and supply chain management (SCM), because they provide the basis upon which management can plan logistics operations, organize logistics and supply chain (SC) processes, coordinate and communicate with business partners, conduct functional logistics activities, and perform managerial control of physical flow of...

Utilisation of Supply Chain Management (SCM) practice by businesses has a number of consequences for internal management information systems, many of which have been dealt with in the literature. Accountants and managers need to manage their supply chain carefully by working closely with the counterparts of their business entity’s suppliers in numerous areas including cost accounting, cost and ...