supply chain management as a vital challenge to the cement industry and developing infrastructure as a whole has been posed by scholars. this research is an attempt to investigate larg supply chain management as a comprehensive approach to consider simultaneously four basic relevant strategies namely lean, agile, resilience and green. using a survey methodology and gathering data from twenty on...

Companies seeking to survive in the business need to meet the customer demands for variety, time, price and quality. The challenge faced by a supply chain delivering fashion products is to develop a strategy that will improve the match between supply and demand and enable the companies to respond faster to the market. These results in three fundamental supply chain strategies namely, lean strat...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to investigate the nature of the humanitarian aid supply chain and discuss the extent to which certain business supply chain concepts, particularly supply chain agility, are relevant to humanitarian aid. Design/methodology/approach – The paper identifies elements of good practice in conventional business supply chains and applies them to the humanitarian...

Agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. In addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. The main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

Nowadays, Military products of superpowers countries have a high level of diversity, delivery speed, and appropriative operational functionality. Therefore, Production of varied, high quality and high speed delivery military products, is essential for enhance Iran's defensive deterrence power. Defense industries supply chain agility is an answer to how to produce military products with these f...

Lean and agile principles are two most buzzing words around the corporate in the past few decades. The industrial sectors throughout the world are upgrading to these principles to enhance their performance lowering their operating costs. Though, these principles have been proven to be efficient in handling supply chains, a more robust strategy is developed inheriting the salient features of bo...

The poultry industry in India represents a major success story. With rapidly changing lifestyles, affluent culture and a conscious need for general wellness, Indian consumers are now opting for a more protein-rich diet. From a plot scheme, it has made a quantum leap to become as a dynamic industry. The present decade promises to exploit value added products and the global trade avenue. This pap...