Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the single entities autonomy, adaptability and dynamism properties. Such organisations imply organisational and technological shift through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexibility. New organisational a...

Despite interest in opportunities that Industry 4.0 offers for Supply Chain Resilience (SCR), little is known about the underlying mechanisms such contributions. The study develops a roadmap explains how supply chains can capitalize on SCR functions. conducted content-centric literature review and identified 16 functions through which enhances SCR. Results reveal are highly interrelated, chain ...

spurred by intensifying competition in global markets, most companies have been increasingly implementing supply chain management (scm) and information systems (is) practices. as well, globalization policies have created a more intensive competition amongst manufacturers; in additional the priority of supply over demand, market competition and importance of some factor such as quality, accounta...

Digitization has touched upon all aspects of businesses, including supply chains and operating models. Today, technologies such as RFID, GPS, and sensors have enabled organizations to transform their existing hybrid (combination of paper-based and IT-supported processes) supply chain structures into more flexible, open, agile, and collaborative digital models. Unlike hybrid supply chain models,...

In the current competitive and dynamic market, customer demands and interests are changing continuously, and hence, risk of disruption in the supply chain is also increasing. To be successful in this scenario, supply chain of a firm should be resilient. Most of the firms realize that with a specific end goal to develop a resilient supply chain, there is a need for assessment of performance. The...

In today’s complex and dynamic supply chain markets, information systems are essential for effective supply chain management. Complex decision making processes on strategic, tactical, and operational levels require substantial timely support in order to contribute to organizations’ agility. Consequently, there is a need for sophisticated dynamic product pricing mechanisms that can adapt quickly...

Turbulent and volatile markets are becoming the norm as life-cycles shorten and global economic and competitive forces create additional uncertainty. The risk attached to lengthy and slow-moving logistics ‘pipelines’ has become unsustainable, forcing organisations to look again at how their supply chains are structured and managed. This paper suggests that the key to survival in these changed c...

Today, the concepts of supply chain integration and agile flexible chain, which affect companies to increase their performance in face change competition, have come fore. The purpose current study is develop a model that reveals mediating role effect on firm performance, hypotheses are tested with structural equation (SEM). To this end, research question worded as follows; “Do flexibility agili...

one of the important problems in project management is lack of available resources in proper time at project site that leads to lack of project implementation in due date. this problem may be lead to time delay in sending resources from suppliers and related origins in supply chain to project site. therfore, to better resources managmenet and also the improvement of supply chain condition, the ...