Is your supply chain at risk of failure? Are your existing supply chain strategies increasing that risk? In 1995, an earthquake hit the port town of Kobe Japan, destroying 100,000 buildings and shutting down Japan’s largest port for 26 months. This great disaster forced 1,000s of firms to alter production, distribution, and inventory strategies just to survive. Procter and Gamble and Texas Inst...

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This study models the supply chain related cash flow risks for a business entity measured by the standard deviations of cash inflows, outflows, and netflows of each period in a planning horizon. The goal is to provide an insightful look on how common practices that intend to improve the Cash Conversion Cycle (CCC), e.g., offering early payment discounts, may contribute to cash flow risks. We sh...

in the last two decades due to globalization of supply chain, enormous changes occurred in chains. leaders in this field, always facing new risks and disorders that should prepare themselves to deal with them. in the recent years, sanctions as one of the most serious risks have damaged the supply chains. however, in the research related to global supply chains, modeling of disruption has been n...

The use of big data analytics for forecasting business trends is gaining momentum among professionals. At the same time, supply chain risk management is important for practitioners to consider because it outlines ways through which firms can allay internal and external threats. Predicting and addressing the risks that social issues cause in the supply chain is of paramount importance to the sus...

in the emerging supply chain environment, green supply chain risk management plays a significant role than ever. risk is an inherent uncertainty and has tendency to disrupt the typical green supply chain management (gscm) operations and eventually reduce the success rate of industries. in order to mitigate the consequences, a fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making modeling (fmcgdm) which co...

To be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. Pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. So these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...

1.1 What is the problem? Different management paradigms, such as the lean, agile, resilience and green have been adopted for the management of supply chains. The lean supply chain is a paradigm based on cost reduction and flexibility, focused on processes improvements, through the reduction or elimination of the all “wastes”, i.e., non-value adding operations (Womack et al., 1991). It embraces ...

In today’s supply chain, the technology of RFID is become significantly important. Many researches have been published several articles over RFID. In this research, we have examined the major challenges, which faces by companies during implementation phase as well we also discuss the fruitful benefits of this technology’s blessings. RFID is consider as a backbone for information sharing process...