the aim of this study was to represent effective componentsin demand chain which help organizations attain high performance levelsthrough identification of these components and determining theirdegree of importance. the following questions were major ideas of thisstudy: what are the most effective components in demand chain? andhow are they effective on organizational performance? to this end,m...

Because of outsourcing and offshoring, supply chains have become longer and more complex in the past decade, with huge increases in intermediate and final goods destined for manufacturers and retailers in North America and Europe, originating in emerging markets in Asia. While overall costs of procurement have decreased as a result, CEOs and supply managers have also noted a strong increase in ...

the revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. the fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. the output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

Recent years have witness the pervasive supply disruptions and their impacts on supply chain performance. We investigate single or dual sourcing emergency model with partial supply disruptions. Introducing the concept of disruption proportion and delivery allocation, we first explore partial interrupted proportion of main supplier and delivery proportion of backup supplier. Under partial disrup...

modern manufacturing enterprises are required to collaborate by their business partners through their business process operations such as design, manufacture, distribution, and aftersales services. and furthermore performance evaluation is of great importance for effective supply chain man agement. therefore, dea can help companies to remove some of the in efficiencies in operational processes ...

This paper studies a two-stage dual-channel supply chain composed of one manufacturer and one traditional retailer. The manufacturer has its own online channel when he sells its product to the offline retailer. There exists a Stackelberg game between the manufacturer and the traditional retailer, in which the manufacturer is the leader and the traditional retailer is the follower. The manufactu...

Supply chains have become more global due to the increased interconnectedness of the world’s economy. As a result, companies in the U.S. are seeking more affordable overseas supply alternatives, though doing so may increase risk of domestic impacts when a disruption in the supplier’s country occurs. It is then critical to assess the risks of global disruptive events to identify the cost effecti...

today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s theories, ap...

Supply chain planning models under disruptions are extensively studied in literature. In this paper, we consider a multi-stage supply chain (re)planning problem. We propose a new approach with an explicit connection of performance impact assessment and supply chain plan reconfiguration issues with consideration of the duration of disruptions and the costs of recovery. This approach is based on ...