managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in scm. therefore, using certain information systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...

In the 21 century, competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demands in global market, agile capability and flexibility have been the new requirements in today’s Supply Chain Management (SCM). Some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve ...

The under-performance of supply chains presents a significant hindrance to disease control in developing countries. Stock-outs of essential medicines lead to treatment interruption which can force changes in patient drug regimens, drive drug resistance and increase mortality. This study is one of few to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of supply chain policies in reducing shortages and...

Unless your organization is unique, it’s been under assault over the past fifteen years from intense competitive pressures. In response, you and others have ordered up a veritable alphabet soup of improvement initiatives: QCC, STS, TQC, TQM, SPC, JIT, DOE, ERP — does it ever end? Or you’ve turned to the “non-alphabetized” menu: benchmarking; reengineering; cycle-time reduction; supply chain man...

Nowadays supply chain management has become one of the powerful business concepts for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in global market. This is the reason that now competition between the firms has been replaced by competitiveness among the supply chains. Moreover, the popular literature dealing with supply chain is replete with discussions of leanness and agility. Agile manufactu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to define the “fast evolving industry” (FEI) and its supply chain management (SCM) challenges. The authors review and structure the literature regarding integration strategies and implementation methods to develop a strategic decision-making framework for SCM in the FEI. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conduct a review of SCM literature, includin...

In the developing and changing world, field of technology hosts many innovations. Supply chain management has also evolved in light technological developments incorporated concept agility. Agile supply is ability to respond quickly unexpected changes demand supply. As chains compete a rapidly growing market, agility provides significant competitive advantage firms. An agile flexibly demands pro...

The present study reports an anomalous branching pattern of the thoracic sympathetic chain. At the level of T3 ganglion, an anomalous branch i.e accessory sympathetic chain (ASC) descended anteromedial to the main sympathetic chain (MSC). The MSC and the ASC communicated with each other at the level of T9, T10 and T11 ganglion, indicating the absence of classical pattern of greater, lesser and ...

The Agile Software Development paradigm has become increasingly popular in the last few years, since it claims lower costs, better productivity, better quality and better business satisfaction. Supply chain management (SCM) is a complex software development project. Owing to its scope and uncertain, complex and unstable requirements, it is not possible to develop it with predictable software de...