Due to the emergence of the global economy and increased competition, many of the modern fishing companies have recognized that their fisheries rapid product introduction and service innovation to market the importance of supply chain management. To improve their competitiveness, many modern fishing companies have accepted supply chain management to improve organizational effectiveness and achi...

Information sharing has been cited as one of major means of improving supply chain performance. It allows companies to better coordinate their activities with their supply chain partners and generate improved performance. This paper reports results from a survey of information sharing practices in Australian manufacturing companies. The results indicate that the level of coordination between me...

Supply chain planning in manufacturing companies is approached in this paper through empirical case-study research. The target was to chart how different types of manufacturing companies are specifying their future volumes and to identify the type of collaborative planning they are implementing with customers and suppliers. Based on interview study results, a framework is presented to explain h...

Despite the independency of companies in a supply chain as a network of separated business units which produce altogether the value for final customers, companies are dependent on resources and information of other members of the supply chains. To manage the use of resources and information, supply chain management plays a major role to coordinate independent companies by using the coordination...

taking advantage of the new technology, supply chain has already created a chain of cooperation among its own companies, and, in a larger scale, within a universal environment. superior to these technologies is rfid which is an abbreviation for radio frequency identification. rfid is one of the most advanced technologies in the contemporary world. perishable products and hose with short time ex...

Intensifying global competitions and rapid advancement of technology have promoted the needs for companies to work collaboratively with their supply chain partners in the form of a virtual enterprise, giving rise to virtual supply chain. However, given the concept was originated from the West, how to promote the application of virtual supply management concept in Asia has become an important is...

Companies in emerging industries face particular challenges in configuring effective supply chains. In this paper, we build on transaction cost economics to explore how supply chains can be configured in emerging industries. We focus on two key aspects of supply chain configuration: the make-or-buy decision and the strength of the ties between a focal firm and its suppliers. We utilise a multip...

 Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to present a new model of non-radial data envelopment analysis that is able to evaluate the systems one of these complete networks is supply chain of cement industry. In this paper, using a non-radial model in data envelopment analysis, a model with a network structure that can assess the sustainable supply chain of strategic industries is evaluated....

In this paper, the transportation problem under the carbon emission trading program ismodelled by mathematical programming and genetic algorithm. Since green supply chain issuesbecome important and new legislations are taken into account, carbon emissions costs are included inthe total costs of the supply chain. The optimisation model has the ability to minimise the total costsand provides the ...