abstract nowadays supply chain management has become one of the powerful business concepts for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in global market. this is the reason that now competition between the firms has been replaced by competitiveness among the supply chains. moreover, the popular literature dealing with supply chain is replete with discussions of leanness and agility. agile ...

Aim/Purpose. This is a literature review that defines agile supply chain management (ASCM), discusses several competing theories (particularly ones with some empirical evidence), their research limitations (e.g., cultural and industry homogeneity), future directions for would add to the field’s body of knowledge. Background. Agile (ASCM) relatively recent phenomenon, most academic articles publ...

Automobile industry is one of the competitive in world. The companies should be flexible to provide customers’ demand. They need a good strategy flexible, agile best for this problem. Supply chain important part manufacturing, automobile they have suppliers answer any change product line. In Iran industries problem and fast line’s change. study, factors supply Iranian introduced. This selected ...

For manufacturing industries, the integration of business processes from customer-order management to delivery (Supply Chain Management) has widely been received much attention from the viewpoints of agile and lean manufacturing. Supply chain planning concerns broad activities ranging network-wide inventory management, forecasting, transportation, distribution planning, production planning and ...

Worldwide business organizations realize that agility of sustainable supply-chain is a requisite need for survival in dynamic, competitive, and unpredictable market. The contribution this research to explore evaluate supply chains dairy manufacturing organization located Saudi Arabia. Other contributions are update the literature about different factors contributing achieve agile chain, propose...

Building a strong supply chain is essential for business success. But when it comes to improving their supply chains, few companies take the right approach. Many businesses work to make their chains faster or more cost-effective, assuming that those steps are the keys to competitive advantage. To the contrary: Supply chains that focus on speed and costs tend to deteriorate over time. The author...