Modern manufacturing enterprises are required to collaborate by their business partners through their business process operations such as design, manufacture, distribution, and aftersales services. And furthermore performance evaluation is of great importance for effective supply chain man agement. Therefore, DEA can help companies to remove some of the in efficiencies in operational processes ...

Digital supply chain integration is becoming increasingly dynamic. Access to customer demand needs to be shared effectively, and product and service deliveries must be tracked to provide visibility in the supply chain. Business process integration is based on standards and reference architectures, which should offer end-to-end integration of product data. Companies operating in supply chains es...

Describes a case study of supply chain collaboration facilitated by a decision support environment in a high-tech electronics supply chain with multiple independent companies. In a business process called collaborative planning, representatives from these companies jointly take decisions regarding production and shipments for a large part of their collective supply chain. Particular attention i...

Supply chain management is critically important for organizational success in today’s global business environment. Organizations formulate various strategies to enhance supply chain performance and are continually seeking ways to gain a competitive advantage. This paper highlights one specific strategy: the Demand-Driven supply network (DDSN). Gartner (formerly AMR Research) has published the T...

Whilst mid in an era of rapid development in information technology (IT), companies face increasing need to coordinate their logistics activities with their upand downstream counterparts, that is, in their supply chains. New technological solutions have provided companies with completely new ways for information sharing in support of coordination and on the other hand, for handling of transacti...

This paper presents an evaluation of Supply Chain Management Software. For this purpose, we conducted an empirical study in the European automotive industry among car manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, and logistic service providers from 25 countries. In particular, we analysed the objectives these companies are trying to achieve by using Supply Chain Management Software and evaluated to w...

Rapid changes in business and the advent of Internet, have made supply chain management (SCM) important in determining the sustainable growth of companies. However, in a complex hierarchical network that links upstream to downstream firms, several uncertain factors affect the performance of a supply chain. Accordingly, mitigating the deleterious impact of uncertainty is important in planning a ...

This paper is focused on the tactical design of steel supply chain (SSC). A general mathematical model is proposed to integrate production and transportation planning in multi-commodity SSC. The main purpose is to prepare a countrywide production and distribution plan in an SSC with three layers consisting of iron ore mines as suppliers, steel companies as producers, and subsidiary steel compan...