This chapter investigates opportunities to integrate mobile technologies within an organization’s enterprise architecture (EA), with an emphasis on supply chain management (SCM) systems. These SCM systems exist within the overall EA of the business. SCM systems are further influenced by the increasing modern-day need for information and communications technologies (ICTs) within a business, to b...

in recent years, the problem of selecting and evaluating the suppliers in supply chain management has aroused considerable interest in business firms. owing to the development of information systems, reaching an appropriate decision for adopting discrete methods is a need. the researchers intend to present a new model in this paper as a contributing factor in the grey environment in which the r...

A growing focus on sustainability issues has permeated the area of Supply Chain Management (SCM) over the past two decades. The concept of Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) has been introduced to reflect a commitment to addressing economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability in managing supply chain activities. The transition from traditional SCM to the new landscape...

Strategic decision analysis on Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves tangible and intangible factors and it needs to be evaluated by interdependent multiple criteria. Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) is a practical and popular decision-making tool for SCM. Interdependency among criteria becomes a source of difficulty in directly applying AHP to various SCM decision problems. Hence, the manager...

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,...

In recent years Supply Chain Management information systems (SCM IS), have raised growing interest among researchers from several knowledge areas, such as Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Simulation, Telecommunications, Economics and Business Management. Among all new information technologies, SCM IS are considered as a powerful tool to enable integration between inter-organisation...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the term used to describe the management of the flow of materials, information, and funds across the entire supply chain, from suppliers to component producers to final assemblers to distribution (warehouses and retailers), and ultimately to the consumer. A case on the supply chain cost has been presented and the optimum cost is found out using numerical method....

This article presents results from a Delphi study on the future impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems on Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Delphi study was conducted with 23 Dutch supply chain executives of European multinationals. Findings from this exploratory study were threefold. First, the implications of increasing industry clockspeeds on supply chain management, as laid o...

To balance demand and supply of information, we propose a framework called “information supply chain” (ISC). This framework is based on supply chain management (SCM), which has been used in business management science. Both ISC and SCM aim to satisfy demand with high responsiveness and efficiency. ISC uses an information requirement planning (IRP) algorithm to reason, plan, and satisfy needers ...

Green Supply Chain Management has its roots in supply chain management, i.e. it is based on the adoption and extension of its concepts. The “Green” component to Supply Chain Management involves addressing the influence and relationships between Supply chain management and the natural environment [1]. Harland [2] defines supply chain management as “the management of a network of interconnected b...