COVID-19 pandemic outbreak caused supply chain (SC) disruption and threatened human life across the world, which could be mitigated through innovative strategies. Based on this scenario, study examines impact of green practices, SC crisis mitigation strategies, smart technologies, sustainable performance in Pakistani manufacturing industry. Data was collected from firms employed structural equa...

Nowadays, logistics and supply chain management (SCM) is critical to compete in the current turbulent markets. In addition, in the global context, there are many uncertainties which affect on the market. One of the most important risks is supplier disruption. The first step to cope with these uncertainties is quantifying them. In this regard many researches have focused on the problem but measu...

Pricing is one of the major aspects of decision making in supply chain. In the previous works mostly a centralized environment is considered indicating the retailers cannot independently apply their decisions on the pricing strategy. Although in a two-echelon decentralized environment it may be possible that supply chain contributors have encountered with different market power situations which...

The risk of supply disruption increases as firms seek to procure from cheaper, but unproven, suppliers. We model a supply chain consisting of a single buyer and two suppliers, both of whom compete for the buyer’s order and face risk of supply disruption. One supplier is comparatively more reliable but also more expensive, while the other unreliable one is cheaper and faces higher risk of disrup...

Agricultural supply chain (ASC) plays a vital role for sustainability as it is the main source of food supply. ASC encounters more sources risk due to seasonality, perishability, and weather conditions, which makes global security system complex. This paper develops an optimization model perishable product decide optimal management strategy that maximizes decision maker's expected profit under ...