Supply Chain Agility is vital for organisations wanting to remain competitive in today’s dynamic business environment. There is increasing interest in deploying Business Intelligence (BI) in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) context to improve Supply Chain (SC) Agility. However, there is limited research exploring BI contributions to SC Agility. In this research-in-progress paper we propose a m...

The objective of this paper is to define how to create a supply chain management (SCM) organizational structure with roles and responsibilities in a multinational company with a big part of the supply chain inside of the company. SCM means having under control the complete supply chain to decide the global optimal instead of summing up the optimal of each node independently. We propose, based o...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been used since the Second World War to identify “friend or foe” aircrafts. It has become an enabling wireless technology that is widely used in a number of application areas, such as product tracking through manufacturing and assembly, inventory control, and supply chain management (SCM). By 2006, Wal-Mart used RFID for all of its suppliers. The use of...

a r t i c l e i n f o Modern organisations must effectively manage their supply chains, to exist and grow. Supply chains draw information extensively from enterprise systems (ESs) of participating businesses. Despite that supply chains frequently depend on information from ES to succeed, not much research on measuring the effectiveness of information transfers between these systems has been pub...

In the era of globalization and outsourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become one of the leading business strategies for a company to gain competitiveness in the global market. To manage the supply chain efficiently and effectively, many companies realize the need for accurate SCM performance measurement. In spite of existing SCM performance studies, there are two kinds of limitations. ...

A decision support for forecasting of collaboration level of supply chain management (SCM) has attracted lots of important decision making in the SCM managers and chief executive officers (CEOs) However, there are no guidelines and prediction models for SCM collaboration. Therefore, the company which pursues SCM can't execute control of collaboration systematically and scientifically In this re...

The study evaluates whether and to what extent supply chain management (SCM) practices in local municipalities are implemented. A case study was undertaken in the Central District Municipality and its local municipalities, North West Province, Republic of South Africa. Purposive sampling was used through which thirty (30) respondents were identified and interviewed within the six municipalities...

Supply chains are the basis of the world economy. With a computer simulation of a supply chain management scenario, the Trading Agents Competition in Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) promotes research in this field to try and automate the process. By letting computer agents optimize the manufacturing process, consumer goods become cheaper. Presented is an analysis of the 2005 Finals of the Tra...

In recent years, researchers and practitioners alike have devoted a great deal of attention to supply chain management (SCM). The main focus of SCM is the need to integrate operations along the supply chain as part of an overall logistic support function. At the same time, the need for globalization requires that the solution of SCM problems be performed in an international context as part of w...