Small and medium sized enterprises have limited power in the supply chain and limited resources to invest in advanced planning systems. This makes it difficult to cope with the latest challenges such as mass customisation which puts higher demands on the companies’ ability to attune its production planning to customers' wishes and their suppliers. The paper presents possible types of supply cha...

This paper empirically examines the impact of environmental uncertainty, IT enablers and interorganizational relationships on supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration. Based on the data collected from 196 organizations, multiple regression analyses are used to test the factors impacting supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration respectively. It was found that commitment...

This research focused on mid-term planning representing the tactical level of supply chain management among manufacturers. Mid-term planning is based on established frame contracts between suppliers and customers. Demand forecasts and early customer orders (from retailers or consumers) are the starting point for performing planning runs involving logistical functions such as procurement, produc...

One of the main research issues in supply chain management is to improve the global efficiency of supply chains. However, the improvement efforts often fail because supply chains are complex, are subject to frequent changes, and collaboration and information sharing in the supply chains are often infeasible. This paper presents a practical collaboration framework for supply chain management whe...

Virtual enterprises and virtual supply chain concepts have been presented to propose solution for a seamless integration and data exchange between enterprises in the supply chain. Cloud computing technology enables centralized data storage and processing for operations and supply chain. This paper presents a prototype implementation of cloud-based virtual supply chain. The proposed solution off...

To date research focused on the role corporate culture plays when planning a supply chain management system (SCMS) has been limited. Although many executives have recognize the importance of corporate culture (e.g., Hollingsworth, 1988), research however, has only begun to review the role corporate culture plays on planning information systems to avoid cultural conflicts (Leidner & Kayworth, 20...

abstract: an efficient supply chain system operates under a strategy to minimize costs by integrating the different functions inside the system and by meeting customer demands in time. in this paper, an integrated supply-production and distribution planning (spdp) is considered despite the fact that in most of the papers, part of the supply chain has been studied, not all parts. therefore, we d...

Nowadays, utilization of renewable energies for satisfying electricity demand has received more interest, and renewable electricity generation has been growing in the world. This study addresses the operational planning of a renewable electricity supply chain over a multi-period planning horizon. The purpose of this study is to maximize total profit and to optimize the operational decisions rel...

In the recent decades, rapid population growth has led to the significant increase in food demand. Food supply chain has always been one of the most important and challenging management issues. Product with short age, especially foodstuffs, is the most problematic challenges for supply chain management. These challenges are mainly due to the diversity in the number of these goods, the special n...

In this paper, we analyze the impact of a transportation disruption on supply chain performance by using system dynamics simulation. Performances of three different supply chains with Internet e-collaboration tools are compared with the assumption that a transportation disruption occurs within two echelons in a five-echelon supply chain. Numerical results are shown to reveal that from Non-colla...