Introduction This paper proposes a research program on Business Process Innovation: Towards Global Supply Chain Intelligence. Few words are more ubiquitous in business or society today than " innovation ". This reflects that businesses are striving for ways to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and connected world (IBM 2006). Most industrial supply chains today are globally scattered...

ment of new technologies have a deep impact on the development and the positioning of companies on international marketplaces. In addition, customers are more demanding in term of quality, lead time and order fulfilment. Firms must anticipate customers’ requests and adapt to market changes. This quest for flexibility and reactivity affects the conception and the management of firms and more gen...

Fuzzy Logic is used to derive the optimal inventory policies in the Supply Chain (SC) numbers. We examine the performance of the optimal inventory policies by cutting the costs and increasing the supply chain management efficiency. The proposed inventory policy uses multi-agent and Fuzzy logic, and provides managerial insights on the impact of the decision making in all the SC numbers. In parti...

This paper aims to examine integration of supply chain and demand chain in emerging markets. We present a research model of demand and supply chain integration which responds to customer’s needs through the integrated information flows. Integration of demand and supply chain synchronizes the key processes in terms of frontend development, product planning, product design, procurement, manufactu...

this paper addresses a production and outbound distribution scheduling problem in which a set of jobs have to be process on a single machine for delivery to customers or to other machines for further processing. we assume that there is a sufficient number of vehicles and the delivery costs is independent of batch size but it is dependent on each trip. in this paper, we present an artificial imm...

the performance of a supply chain can be evaluated in either a cross-sectional or a time series manner, and data envelopment analysis is a useful method for both types of evaluation. in this paper we develop an index and indicator of productivity change that can be used with radial and non-radial models for supply chain malmquist index. the supply chain malmquist productivity index (scmpi) can ...

this paper aims to evaluate inventory cost of a two-echelon serial supply chain system under vendor managed inventory program with stochastic demand, and examine the effect of environmental factors on the cost of overall system. for this purpose, we consider a two-echelon serial supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. under vendor managed inventory program, the decision on inventory le...

Today, companies need to make use of appropriate patterns such as supply chain management system to gain and preserve a position in competitive world-wide market. Supply chain is a large scaled network consists of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, retailers and final customers which are in coordination with each other in order to transform products from raw materials into finished goods wit...

Fierce competition in today’s global markets, the introduction of products with shorter and shorter design and life cycles, and heightened expectation of customers have forced business enterprises to invest in, and focus much attention on their supply chains. This, coupled with advances and evolution in the fields of information systems, communication and transportation technologies (for exampl...

There are many stakeholders involved in supply chain management, and the supply chain itself is a complex, dynamic network that involves suppliers, manufactures, warehouses, retailers, and customers. Ontologies on the other hand are semantic primitives that specify a shared domain of knowledge. Having ontologies for supply chain management will facilitate knowledge sharing and communication amo...