Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets, agility has been considered as a fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival. Consequently Agile Supply Chain is considered as a dominant competitive advantage. However, so far a little effort has been made for order fulfillment monitoring an agile supply chain in recent years. Therefore, in this study a fuzzy approach has ...

The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile manufacturing has been proposed in response to these challenges for companies. This paper copes with t...

Agility and resilience have become increasingly important in recent years as sudden shocks to the supply chain more frequent. To improve level of integration increase agile operations, coordinated metrics, supplier collaboration product design, trust between suppliers are required, coordination within organization, correspondence information products design based on interaction sharing common i...

Today’s competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demand in global market, Supply Chain Management (SCM) must be agile and flexible enough. In agile SCM, some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve its performance. This paper explored th...

Bearing in mind the new Supply Chain Management (SCM) paradigms, it is important that supply chains be aware of the implementation level of the main practices associated to each SCM paradigm (Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green, hereafter referred as LARG). The main objective of this chapter is to propose a framework, based on Enterprise 2.0 approach, for global supply chains to assess their LARG...

Supply chain paradigms have been explored, but it is still very difficult to integrate some concepts that seem to be contradictory. This paper explores production and supply chain paradigms such as lean, agile, resilient and green. Tradeoffs between these management paradigms are identified and explored to help organizations and their supply chains to become more efficient and competitive. This...

Time-to-market and insufficient initial requirements are two major challenges that make requirement engineering for market-driven software projects different from bespoke software projects. These challenges can be resolved by using agile methods for market-driven software development as agile methods put emphasis on a dynamic approach for requirement engineering which work closely with an itera...

the purpose of the present study is to investigate the supply chain strategies and information system strategies alignment and the impact of these two strategies on supply chain management performance of manufacturing firms in khuzestan province. the population of this applied research consisted of 1716 manufacturing firms and with using cochran's formula for limited society, 231 firms wer...

Agile supply chains; characterized by decentralization and dynamism have redefined the performance metrics for gaining competitive advantage for organizations. The extended supply chains of today need a high alignment of the information flow across disparate and decentralized links of supply chains. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies are suitable for enabling the information flow of supply chains....

Regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. Suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.In this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...