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...

The objective of this paper is to investigate Supply Chain Management (SCM) performance of selected companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) countries upon successful implementation of Information Technology (IT) applications. By carrying out an in-depth qualitative analysis, the paper seeks to evaluate how IT can enhance the SCM performance from a practitioner perspective. The survey result...

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 (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...

To improve the performance of Supply chain decisions (SCM) , agents technology is slowly becoming the best alternative . In general , most of the components in SCM work in isolation and achieving coordination among SCM partners turns out to be a difficult proposition . But in a multi-agent system (MAS) , an agent while making a local optimal decision , it sees how it will effect the other agent...

abstract purpose-the purpose of this paper is to review a sample of the literature relating to interpretive structural modelling (ism) and its deployment for modelling purposes in the area of supply chain management (scm). design/methodology/approach- the literature is examined from the three perspectives. first, concept of ism and examines ism as modelling technique. second, use of ism by the ...

Background Higher education programmes preparing health system managers for their jobs seldom include supply chain management (SCM) in the curriculum. However, SCM knowledge and skills are necessary not only for health workers, but also for managers and policy makers. Indeed, SCM awareness at decision-making level is essential to facilitate the establishment of policy frameworks giving SCM a pl...