Decision makers on supply chains face an uncertain, dynamic, and strategic multiagent environment. We report on Deep Maize, an agent we designed to participate in the 2003 Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC/SCM) game. Our design employs an idealized equilibrium analysis of the SCM game to factor out the strategic aspects of the environment and to define an expected profitabl...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) decisions can be considered at different levels of detail. At a strategic level they apply to the architecture in the supply chain, at the tactical level to transport fleet selection, selection of supply sources and distribution, and at the operational level, to the distribution of supplies and route selection. Many models of decision-making SCM have been developed...

Background An assessment in 2011 identified the need to incorporate supply chain management (SCM) in academic curricula for health care workers in Tanzania. As a result, a competency-based curricula was developed for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, clinical officers and nursing cadres. An initiative to train pharmacy graduates in SCM as part of their professional training was thereafter emba...

In the contemporary global market, managing the entire supply chain has become crucial for competitive advantage in different industries. However, the realization and success of supply chain management (SCM) depends significantly on the previous supply chain modeling and simulation for analyzing complex systems. This study develops a modular approach for system analysis and design of supply cha...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) deals with the management of flows of goods, information and funds within and between supply chain partners in order to satisfy consumer needs in the most efficient way (Chopra & Meindl 2007, Christopher 1998). Along a supply chain, various decisions have to be made continuously, from the simple choice, which customer order to be processed next, to the serious ques...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is continuing to gain importance, both in industry and academia. Most SCM courses offered by universities and business schools are text-based. Approaches to illustrate the dynamic behaviour of supply chains are the well-known Beer Game and simulations. Even though the Beer Game allows students to see consequences of individual decisions for the entities of a linear...

This article presents a probabilistic security model for supply chain management systems (SCM) in which the basic goals of security (including confidentiality, integrity, availability and accountability, CIAA) are modeled and analyzed. Consequently, the weak points in system security are identified. A stochastic model using measurable values to describe the information system security of a SCM ...

a r t i c l e i n f o Electronic supply chain management (e-SCM), a specific form of inter-organizational systems, has generally regarded as one of the major strategies to create competitive advantage. The diffusion of e-SCM among trading partners is critical for its final successful use and accordingly, performance impact. However, the diffusion process is complex and dynamic in nature and inv...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) plans and controls the production over a group of autonomous enterprises. Process-oriented design is used to eliminate inefficiencies of the chain on a strategic level. This Virtual Enterprise (VE) must also manage and optimize the collaborative production on a tactical and operative level. Production planning, scheduling, and control are thus important functions f...