Agent based modeling and simulation consider the behavior of agents acting in a system. The agents' interactions result in changing the agent’s behavior, the whole agent based system, and its environment. In this study, the manufacturing, sale, and receiving orders behaviors pertinent to manufacturing and sale agents acting across a pharmaceutical supply chain of an Iranian manufacturing medici...

The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This ...

Changing customer and business requirements force manufacturers to develop agility in order to be competitive. Agility refers to the skill to respond to these unexpected needs of the market. This paper presents the essence of agile supply chain (ASC) and contributes to the existing literature on ASC by highlighting the key research challenges and issues important to both practitioners and acade...

Agent based modeling and simulation consider the behavior of agents acting in a system. The agents' interactions result in changing the agent’s behavior, the whole agent based system, and its environment. In this study, the manufacturing, sale, and receiving orders behaviors pertinent to manufacturing and sale agents acting across a pharmaceutical supply chain of an Iranian manufacturing medici...

To study deeply the operating mechanisms and system underlying behavior of agile supply chains, a new method—systems dynamics (SD) is introduced into the analysis of agile supply chain’s behaviors.According to the characteristics of agile supply chain, its operating mechanisms was analysed and the dynamics model of it was established .Then the simulation analysis of systemic behavior of agile s...

Supply chain management has become one of the most popular approaches to enhance the global competitiveness of business corporations today. Firms must have clear strategic thinking in order to effectively organize such complicated activities, resources, communications, and processes. An emerging body of literature offers a framework that identifies three kinds of supply chain strategies: lean s...

Purpose The significant changes that supply chains (SCs) are undergoing and the emergence of disruptive technologies have led to a growing effort integrate novel mature into existing SC strategies. Thus, this study investigates relationships between information (ITs), emerging IT lean chain (LSC) agile (ASC) Design/methodology/approach An empirical based on structural equation modeling survey d...

China’s publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain has its own peculiarities. The authors elaborate the significance of building the Chinese publishing enterprise Agile Supply Chain based on dynamic alliance in the current highly competitive market, and then construct and analyze three models and their characteristics. At last the authors discuss some problems deriving from the information Game, ...