the study determined optimum inventory levels for various bakery resources using the bread supply chain network in onitsha city. structured questionnaires were administered among bakery factories. the optimum design achieved through the optimization model was compared with the existing systems. analysis of 90 bakeries with a combined capacity of 3960 revealed that total money n 564,408,477.28 i...

we model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. t he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. the retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

the increasing emphasis on supply chain management (scm) has led researchers to rethink models, constructs, and frameworks for quality management (qm) that have been developed for the field of operations management. in this paper, within the framework of a structural model we investigate how these two supply chain management-related quality practices (customer focus and supplier quality managem...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economical performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, gre...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economic performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, green...

conclusions no evidence-based guidelines exist on the use of analgesics in patients with liver disease and cirrhosis. as a result pain management in these patients generates considerable misconception among health care professionals, leading under-treatment of pain in this population. providing concrete guidelines toward the administration of these agents will lead to more efficient and safer p...

in the current competitive market, productive and economical firms need to manage and monitor resources and elements related to outside the organization, in addition to considering the organization and its internal resources. so today, supply chain management is proposed as one of the fundamental infrastructures for implementing e-commerce worldwide. supply chain management is a phenomenon that...

How is blockchain technology empowering patients to verify provenance and quality of COVID-19 vaccines other lifesaving drugs through Asia's first solution for supply chain connectivity traceability pharmaceuticals vaccines? With two million products on the network, this ground breaking scalable initiative controls "pack" vs "batch." Authorities are now seizing counterfeits consumers benefittin...

cost reduction is one of the methods applied for improving the productivity of organizations. in productivity literature, particularly in nonparametric methods, cost reduction related methods are regarded as input oriented models. this paper presents a supply chain management (scm) model in which purchasing iron ore and coke from different resources, along with production and distribution of st...