Channel financing (CF) has emerged as a transformational paradigm in supply chain management. It is an effective tool for managing the interdependencies between the physical and the financial supply chains. It is also a win-win proposition for all the supply chain partners. In this paper, 6 dimensions of CF have been identified. Organizational study has been carried out in 60 Indian companies t...

With the development of mobile network and communication technology, traditional supply chain management is gradually updating to mobile supply chain management, and multi-agent technology has been considered as a very efficient method for supply chain management in mobile environment. After considering the characteristics and limitations of mobile supply chain, and according to the requirement...

Supply chain management is a set of used methods for the efficient integration of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, and sellers to response customer requirements to reduce system costs and to distribute products at the right place and right time. This study aims to identify and rank the supply chain damages using the analytic network process as a practical case in a fast moving consumer goo...

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Supply chain network design (SCND) problem has recently been gaining attention because an integrated management of the supply chain (SC) can reduce the unexpected/undesirable events and can affect definitely the efficiency of all the chain. A critical component of the planning activities of a manufacturing firm is the efficient design of its SC. Hence, SCND affords a sensitive platform for effi...

The objective of this study is to identify how dimensions of organizational flexibility enable inventory flow integration, evidently an efficiency imperative, across the supply chain. The paper investigates the impact of product modularity, use of teams and IT infrastructure reconfigurability as dimensions of organizational flexibility, on inventory flow integration across the supply chain. Dat...

Nowadays, Military products of superpowers countries have a high level of diversity, delivery speed, and appropriative operational functionality. Therefore, Production of varied, high quality and high speed delivery military products, is essential for enhance Iran's defensive deterrence power. Defense industries supply chain agility is an answer to how to produce military products with these f...

nowadays, many organizations deal with increasing competition and environmental uncertainty, which caused by innovations in technologies and customer needs change. in term of this condition and environment, old and traditional methods in supply chain has lost their efficiency. on efficient method in this regard is leagility. thus, to model the leagility of supply chain , numbers of research was...

While firms understand that implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) is important, they seem uncertain about how to manage their initiatives by looking beyond own facilities. Building a requires the participation of all partner across chain. However, are different in size, situation, capabilities, and even industries. Thus, encouraging them participate difficult. Many small medium ente...