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....

This paper presents current supply chain configurations for concrete reinforcement steel (rebar) in the Turkish construction industry. The supply chains were assessed by the value stream mapping method and were investigated through visits to firms involved in the supply chain and interviews with practitioners. Five different types of rebar supply chain configurations were identified in the case...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems tend to deploy Supply Chains (SC), in order to successfully integrate customers, suppliers, manufacturers and warehouses, and therefore minimize systemwide costs while satisfying service level requirements. Although efficient, these systems are neither versatile nor adaptive, since newly discovered customer trends cannot be easily integrated. Furthermo...

Introduction 89 Current Status of the Internet-enabled Supply Chain 89 Key Supply Chain Processes and the Internet 89 Impacts of Internet-Enabled Supply Chains 92 Enabling Technologies for Internet-Enabled Supply Chain Management 92 Internet-based EDI 92 XML-based B2B Interaction Frameworks 93 Web Service Technologies 93 Deployment Platforms 95 Challenging Issues in Developing Internet-Enabled ...

Manufacturers are establishing smaller supplier network for enhanced cooperation, developmental efficiency and specialization. However, it limits manufacturing flexibility manifested by supplier capacity, disruptive events and customer attitudes. Methodology for modeling flexible assembler-suppliers relationships to manage supply chains in emerging markets is described. Supplier database, decis...

The software supply chain is best described as interconnected business processes that enable software products to be developed, converted to SKUs, distributed and provisioned (i.e., licensing and entitlement) to users. Most companies have a unique software supply chain, depending on the business model; but at a very high level, the sequence of steps remains the same. Hardware and high-technolog...

We study experimentally bargaining in a multiple-tier supply chain with horizontal competition and sequential bargaining between tiers. Our treatments vary the cost differences between firms in tiers 1 and 2. We measure how these underlying costs influence the efficiency, negotiated prices and profit distribution across the supply chain, and the consistency of these outcomes with existing theor...

This paper is considering the competition between two multi-echelon supply-chains on price and service under balance and imbalance of market power between the chains which are analyzing through Nash and Stackelberg game approach. The problem is categorized as the centralized or decentralized structure of each chain, which means a few different possible scenarios are developing based on the Nash...

Practically all supply chains operate under conditions of uncertainty. To mitigate this uncertainty and increase performance, organizations within chains exchange information to achieve operational cohesion. However, as some researchers have noted, some supply chains benefit more from increased levels of information sharing than others (e.g. Cachon & Fisher, 2000). To assist in explaining the p...

Practically all supply chains operate under conditions of uncertainty. To mitigate this uncertainty and increase performance, organizations within chains exchange information to achieve operational cohesion. However, as some researchers have noted, some supply chains benefit more from increased levels of information sharing than others (e.g. Cachon & Fisher, 2000). To assist in explaining the p...