Globalisation has facilitated different industries to eliminate geographical boundaries and equipped organisations work collectively produce goods. Pharmaceuticals is one such industry which majorly benefited from globalisation reduce costs increase profitability at aspects of research, development, manufacturing drugs finally distribution drugs. not only reduces increases profits for the indus...

This study identifies and proposes a framework that provides insights into supply chain integration (SCI) supplies sustainability (SCS) relationships. Drawing on dynamic capability theory, stakeholder contingency it analyses primary qualitative data obtained by interviewing managers executives conducting observations, as well secondary within leading pharmaceutical companies, national instituti...

This paper is aimed at formalizing a better comprehensive method to analyze and assess the main logistics risk factors (LRF) in a supply chain perspective. The empirical analysis is based on a survey with a sample of manufacturing companies conducted in the Moroccan pharmaceutical industry. This tries to enrich the existing literature on supply chain risk management by prioritizing several dime...

This paper considers a two stages pharmaceutical supply chain (PSC) consisting of a pharmaceutical manufacturer (pharma-manufacturer) that supplies one type of pharmaceutical product to a pharma-retailer. The customer demand rate for the pharmaceutical product is dependent on the pharma-retailer’s current-inventory level. The pharma-retailer determines the order quantity ( ) value as decision v...

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

Technology adoption in supply chain management may create major breakthrough achievements. This paper aims at exploring different aspects of technology adoption in supply chain management (SCM) through six thinking strategies of decision makers at different stages in different sectors viz. FMCG, electrical, heavy engineering, electronics and pharmaceutical & chemicals) to recognize operations a...

The pharmaceutical supply chain is composed of multiple firms interacting to produce and distribute drugs in an uncertain environment. In this work, we develop and validate a multi-agent simulation of the supply chains associated with the pharmaceutical industry. We demonstrate that the operating norms of a particular industry can be accurately represented to create an industry-specific model c...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

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...