Supply chain management has become more important as an academic topic due to trends in globalization leading to massive reallocation of production related advantages. Because of the massive amount of data that is generated in the global economy, new tools need to be developed in order to manage and analyze the data, as well as to monitor organizational performance worldwide. This paper propose...

Coordination is considered a fundamental element to achieve a better supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in today turbulent business environment. Supply chain coordination requires that all stages to take actions to maximise the global supply chain profit. Coordination is then an integral part of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. The SCM approach is the systemic strategic coordi...

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...

A number of highly publicized, controversial lapses in social responsibility within global supply chains have forced managers and scholars to reexamine long-held perspectives on supplier selection. Extending Carter and Jennings’ department-level study of purchasing social responsibility, our research assesses the role of supply managers’ ethical intentions and three key antecedents that drive s...

A “Supply Chain Evolution Model” demonstrates to countries how to implement and sustain an integrated supply chain. It illustrates how public health systems can move through a process management trajectory that leads to improved supply chain management capacity, from ad hoc to organized to integrated to extended stages. In the earlier stages, health system managers have little understanding of ...

An important issue for suppliers, producers, and retailers who want to compete in a competitive environment is continuous performance improvement in a dynamic supply chain. Literature review on supply chain puts more emphasis on quantitative factors than other factors. In this research, we focus on quantitative factors which affect competitive advantages creation and investigation. Our goal is ...

Recently, a growing number of Operations Management researchers have started to investigate the interface between the two fields leveraging the institutional richness of Operations Management research, and proposing ways to operationally hedge operational and competitive exposures not effectively handled through typical financial hedging contracts. It is now timely to compile state-of-theart re...