The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

This paper aims to propose a conceptual model to analyse the influence of lean, resilient and green supply chain management practices on supply chain sustainability. A deductive research approach was used to develop a conceptual model from the literature review. The SCM practices focused in this study are: waste elimination, Total Quality Management, just-in-time; supply chain risk management, ...

Transportation of goods constitutes an important part of in–bound as well as out-bound logistics of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Efficient distribution of goods and services is of vital importance in today’s competitive market, as transportation constitutes a considerable portion of the trading price of most products or services. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is now at the centre stage of man...

Background In the 1990s, public sector technicians, mainly pharmacists, were gaining skills to fulfil their responsibilities in supply chain management (SCM) through different training sessions. Supply chain management was neither recognized as a unique profession nor institutionalized under Ministries of Health. The increasing need for global dialogue regarding health supply chain experiences,...

Transformations in socio-economic space affect functioning of entrepreneurial activity, leading to a change the configuration business processes. In context increasing complexity external environment and digitalization, subjects must ensure activities effectiveness based on supply chains optimization. Entities are required use progressive methods chain management. The purpose study is analyze m...

Supply Chain Management is a network of facilities that produce raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products, and deliver the products to customers through a distribution system. The management of the supply chain and the roles of various actors involved differ from industry to industry and company to company. As a result Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become...

In today’s industrial world, supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the various companies involved. However, recent advances in planning, scheduling, and autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest, both in academia and in industry, in automating th...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared to conventional, centrally organised architectures in the scope of supply chain management (SCM). Their structure inherently meets the requirements of decentralised supply chains, whereas conventional SCM systems are often restricted in terms of dynamic behaviour, handling severe disturbances at supplier sites as well as dealing with hig...

Security management of modern supply systems raise challenges to various aspects of supply chain management (SCM) researches, demanding an integrated and holistic solution framework. In this article we concentrate on two fundamental instruments to support the pursuit of a security centric supply chain management (SecSCM) mission. Firstly the security taxonomy within the SCM context provides a c...