In a supply chain management context, the enterprise architecture concept to efficiently support the collaborative processes among the supply chain members involved has been evolving. Each supply chain has an organizational structure that describes the hierarchical relationships among its members, ranging from centralized to decentralized organizations. From a decentralized perspective, each su...

Lean is a systematic approach to identify and eliminate non-value-added activities or waste through continuous improvement process. While traditional lean manufacturing focuses on the activities within a single organization, lean supply chain consists of the same processes, but it views these processes over multiple organizations. This research addresses an important yet under-studied area – le...

Supply chain management is about improving the products, processes and functioning of the chain of enterprises involved in the delivery of products and services from raw materials. This paper provides a brief review of supply chain management and reviews some supply chain transformation methodologies. A standard methodology that guides in the transformation of the supply chain is presented. Als...

Green Supply Chain Management has its roots in supply chain management, i.e. it is based on the adoption and extension of its concepts. The “Green” component to Supply Chain Management involves addressing the influence and relationships between Supply chain management and the natural environment [1]. Harland [2] defines supply chain management as “the management of a network of interconnected b...

A supply chain consists of different processes and when conducting supply chain re-design is necessary

In today’s global market the main focus of competition is not only between different companies but also between supply chains. Technological changes and organizational improvements are important for effective supply chain management (SCM), however, the main cause of SCM improvements is not the implementation of an information system (IS) itself, but rather a change and an integration of busines...

(ABSTRACT) Supply chain management has been recently introduced to address the integration of organizational functions ranging from the ordering and receipt of raw materials throughout the manufacturing processes, to the distribution and delivery of products to the customer. Its application demonstrates that this idea enables organizations to achieve higher quality products, better customer ser...

the aim of this study was to represent effective componentsin demand chain which help organizations attain high performance levelsthrough identification of these components and determining theirdegree of importance. the following questions were major ideas of thisstudy: what are the most effective components in demand chain? andhow are they effective on organizational performance? to this end,m...