The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

While supply chain integration is measured at three levels: information, resources and organization, the emphasis of the paper is placed on how information integration can be achieved through B2B e-hubs. After reviewing the concept of supply chain integration and the evolution of e-hubs, we examine two groups of e-hubs classified by supply chain processes, namely procurement and transportation,...

Supply chain requirements and challenges in recent years have made managers to explore new methods in dealing with supply chain management (SCM) problems. Methods with high flexibility which can adapt plans to real conditions help one to make a decision at the right time. In the SCM, distribution and allocation problems are of enormous significance and due to their applications in the cross-fun...

The concept of construction supply chain (CSC) is defined firstly. Then the authors depict a typical construction supply chain model from the perspectives of partners involved in construction process, analyze the characteristics and attributes of CSC, and identify some problems in CSC. Based-on the definition and principles of supply chain management (SCM), the concept of construction supply ch...

With the accession to WTO and the establishment of Shanghai Gold Exchange, gold mines in China are facing more severe competition from both home and abroad. Supply Chain Management (SCM), a new management idea gradually accepted all over the world, provides the gold mines in China with a new management mode. In this thesis, under the guidance of SCM theory, based on the analyzing to the actuali...

Supply chain management (SCM) is not always concerned with optimal solutions conventionally in terms of product allocation. Virtual market based supply chain operation solves the product allocation problem by distributing the scheduled resources based on the agent interactions in the market. We formulate supply chain model as a discrete resource allocation problem under dynamic environment, and...

ICT and supply chain management (SCM) are two notions, which have attracted much attention among both academicians and practitioners during the last decade. However, the discussion of the relationship between the two notions has been limited and fragmented. In this paper, we will present a summary of the discussion of ICT components and SCM on an extensive literature review. Then, we will discu...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and related systems such as Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) are incorporating decision support tools and technologies. In this paper, it presents an intelligent decision support, which includes business intelligence, customer intelligence, supply chain intelligence and business analysis. This literature reviews the IDSS...

In today’s highly competitive and global marketplace the pressure on organizations to find new ways to create and deliver value to customers grows ever stronger. In the last two decades, logistics and supply chain has moved to the center stage. There has been a growing recognition that it is through an effective management of the logistics function and the supply chain that the goal of cost red...