From the perspectives of the operational objectives of the green supply chain management and in consideration of its economic efficiency, social and environmental impact as well as its unique characteristics, this paper examines the pricing issues of the green supply chain for home appliances industry by using game theory and contract coordination theory. Considering the influences of the effec...

Pharmaceutical products are a kind of perishable products. They will lose potency over time, especially if exposed to heat. And their quality is related to human health and life safety. The Pharmaceutical products should be kept at the correct temperature during the process of the supply chain, and it is necessary to carry out monitoring and tracking to the whole process. Focusing on this probl...

Supply chain is the process of continuous flow of products or services from source to the destination. Supply chain management has become an effective tool now a day to survive in this competitive world. Organizations do their best to harvest profits by adopting better supply chain management practices for competitive advantage and organizational performance. In this paper an attempt has been m...

Recent business and technological trends have transformed the structure and performance requirements for distribution channels in many industries. Higher service level expectations of retail customers, distribution outsourcing by manufacturers, and the proliferation of advanced information technologies drive these transformations, presenting new problems in supply chain management. Motivated by...

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

Retailing is a huge industry. In the United States, retail business represents about 40% of the economy and is the largest employer. Retail supply chain management is still more art than science, but this is changing rapidly as retailers begin to apply analytic models to the huge volume of data they are collecting on consumer purchases and preferences. This industry-wide movement resembles the ...

Purpose This paper investigate how fit uncertainty impacts product return costs in online retailing and digital fitting, a pre-sales fitting practice, can reduce uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach The analyzes the current performance of retailer's e-commerce operations by estimating generated returns, including handling costs, tied-up capital, inventory holding transportation order-pickin...