in today’s competitive business environment, the design and management of supply chainnetwork is one of the most important challenges that managers encounter. the supply chain network shouldbe designed for satisfying of customer demands as well as minizing the total system costs. this paper presentsa multi-period multi-stage supply chain network design problem under demand uncertainty. the prob...

Nowadays there is a large availability of discrete event simulation software that can be easily used in different domains: from industry to supply chain, from healthcare to business management, from training to complex systems design. Simulation engines of commercial discrete event simulation software use specific rules and logics for simulation time and events management. Difficulties and limi...

Global marketplaces, higher levels of product variety, shorter product life cycles, and demand for premium customer services are all things which cause pressure for one supply chain to be more efficient, more time compressed and more cost effective. This has become even more critical in recent years because the advancement in information technology has enabled companies to improve their supply ...

many organizations use information technology (it) to improve their performance in the business and operations. but, most of the it projects suffer from a high risk of failure when implemented. recently, many studies have been attended on the concept of critical success factors (csfs) in order to affect the rate of success, but a little effort has been focused on developing strong models to fac...

Supply chain management is a crucial activity in every company. Surprisingly, today most of the supply chain activities are carried out manually, and IT support is ojien limited to having a set of (disconnected) data repositories. In addition, B2B communications are pelformed via phone, fa, or email. Increasing the operational eficiency of the supply chain results in huge savings, and is the ke...

The construction project is a business full of risk in every process due to its complexity, changes, and involvement from various stakeholders. One of the critical risks in the construction project is in the supply chain. Identifying and assessing the risk with the right tools and methods in that area will inevitably affect the success of the project. Unfortunately, the research for the tools a...