Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose...

Received: 18 May 2005 Revised: 19 June 2005 Accepted: 9 January 2006 Abstract This paper examines a business and IS/IT initiative at Volvo that involves managing the development and implementation of an agile aftermarket supply chain. The case is based on Volvo’s global initiative to create a platform, Web services, and a Web portal for selling spare parts over the Internet. Creating and integr...

Industry 4.0 digital technologies are becoming indispensable for firms striving to enhance their supply chain capabilities and financial performance, but how these relationships play out in practice remains unclear. To address this issue, study assesses the relationship between integration, agility, performance from a dynamic capability perspective. Further analyses conducted establish whether ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, medical product industry faced an unusual demand shock for personal protective equipment (PPE), including face masks, shields, disinfectants, and gowns. Companies from various industries responded to urgent need these potentially life-saving products by adopting ad hoc supply chains exceptionally short time: They found new suppliers, developed products,...

In this paper, an inventory management framework and deterministic costs models within the context of this framework are structured for effective supply chain under deterministic and fuzzy environment. In this regard, we propose a bi-echelon multi-product supply chain in which a central manufacturing firm (lower echelon) with warehouse space limitation is fed through different suppliers (upper ...

Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets, agility has been considered as a fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival. Consequently Agile Supply Chain is considered as a dominant competitive advantage. However, so far a little effort has been made for order fulfillment monitoring an agile supply chain in recent years. Therefore, in this study a fuzzy approach has ...

Firms nowadays face significant challenges in their operating environments, which have been characterised in two different ways. From a strategic management perspective these environments are in a state of hypercompetition while from a logistics or supply chain perspective these environments require market responsiveness predicated upon agile supply chains. However, firms must also rely on many...