No firm can control all areas of their supply chain. Product architecture is a crucial element of value analysis in supply chain management (SCM). In this article, we explore the following research questions: (1) What is the relationship between product architecture and SCM practices? (2) How can we apply this framework to business practices? To analyze our research topics, we will show a frame...

Global competition and technological innovation have been key drivers for change in how organizations do business. The implementation of Supply chain management systems (SCMs) based on business-to-business (B2B) electronic commerce have been tested by corporations such as Cisco and Seven Eleven Japan. Although hardware/software architectures for such implementations are widely studied, there ha...

Supply chain management can be greatly improved using autonomous agents. The Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) competition is a forum for developing such agents. This paper introduces StormFront, a moderately successful agent that attempts to produce a high volume of products at a low profit margin, capturing the majority of customer demand. The underlying components a...

Umi Nala Shop store is engaged in selling toys, such as floats, laptop screens, construction sets, ambulance cars, small jeep and many more. The problem that this does not know the amount of inventory goods warehouse. This purchases from suppliers for to be sold without knowing available stock. makes by uncontrollable. records incoming outgoing transactions manually using paper so data can lost...

today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. while going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the united states, produce in india and trade in europe...

Recently, with the environmental crisis, Green supply chain management (or GSCM), and in particular closed loop supply chain model, has received considerable attention by researchers. Closed loop supply chain model aims at reduction of waste and generating profit for enterprises through integrating forward and reverse logistics. Unfortunately, there is limited research on general models for clo...

is an innovative journal aimed at bridging the gap among the various disciplines of business process management, including information systems, operations research, system engineering, management science, operations management, industry engineering, control theory, and service management. Supply chain management (SCM) as an entity spans many functional areas within a company, affecting the way ...

Supply chains are a central element of today’s global economy. Existing management practices consist primarily of static interactions between established partners. Global competition, shorter product life cycles and the emergence of Internet-mediated business solutions create an incentive for exploring more dynamic supply chain practices. The Supply Chain Trading Agent Competition (TAC SCM) was...

Today’s competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demand in global market, Supply Chain Management (SCM) must be agile and flexible enough. In agile SCM, some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve its performance. This paper explored th...