Due to the global expansion of Company A's supply chain network, it is becoming more vulnerable to many disruptions. These disruptions often incur additional costs; and require time to respond to and recover from these disruptions. The base paper supply chain was identified as the most vulnerable area of the Company A Jurong and South & Southeast Asia Cluster supply chain; and a multi-stage sup...

We examine how a flexible process structure might be designed to allow the production system to better cope with fluctuating supply and demand, and to match supply with demand in a more effective manner. We argue that good flexible process structures are essentially highly connected graphs, and use the concept of graph expansion (a measure of graph connectivity) to achieve various insights into...

RFID has lots of potential benefits for supply chain management; that`s why it has attracted many industry practitioners all around the world, especially in recent years. RFID is one of the key solutions that information technology has provided for industry. The main issue in implementing and also developing this unique technology in the supply chain management of every industry appears to be t...

Today, in the existing competitive market, proper management of the supply chain has attracted a lot of attention to increasing profitability and customer satisfaction. Managers and decision-makers may use policies to survive in this situation, but a desirable outcome will only come when a precise and comprehensive model is used. Therefore, a detailed design and systematic planning of the suppl...

This paper empirically examines the impact of environmental uncertainty, IT enablers and interorganizational relationships on supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration. Based on the data collected from 196 organizations, multiple regression analyses are used to test the factors impacting supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration respectively. It was found that commitment...

While firms understand that implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) is important, they seem uncertain about how to manage their initiatives by looking beyond own facilities. Building a requires the participation of all partner across chain. However, are different in size, situation, capabilities, and even industries. Thus, encouraging them participate difficult. Many small medium ente...