As the business environment gets more complicated, organizations must be able to respond to the business changes and adjust themselves quickly to gain their competition advantages. In our prior research (Lin and Lin, 2004), a novel framework was proposed, which integrates simulated and physical agents to provide an efficient way for organizations to meet the challenges in forming dynamic busine...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to document the research on development of a conceptual framework for the supply chain. The aims of the research were to develop an integrated framework, and to provide a methodology for planning of many components in the supply chain such as suppliers, materials, resources, warehouses, activities and customers. The proposed framework is based on the ...

With the development of the global economy, the emission of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are getting larger and larger, which brings more and more serious environmental problems to nature that already has great pressure. The traditional enterprise development usually takes the cost minimization and the profit maximization as the enterprise management goal, at the expense of the env...

performance of a supply chain highly depends on its suppliers and therefore, appropriate selection of them is of great importance. this paper presents an integrated model of an mcdm method and a mathematical programming in order to select suppliers and determine lot sizes in the supply chain. the proposed framework comprises two main sub-models; the qualitative sub-model seeks to evaluate the s...

Supply chains have rapidly developed and become more complex to increase productivity, reduce costs meet demand. Moreover, globalization affected complexity uncertainty, so many risks arisen in surviving among rivals. Today, supply chain management became difficult for recognizing the details controlling process. So, recognition assessment of advance vital provide continuity working processes c...

The Malaysian economy has experienced robust economic growth over the past few decades, averaging around 6 per cent a year since 2000. With competitive pressure for resources from non-agriculture sectors, there is likely to be an inadequate capacity increase agricultural production. Attaining agriculture business performance continued relevance remains demanding in Eleventh Malaysia Plan. Ancho...