according to gas development in most provinces in recent years and the expansion of gas transfer pipeline in parallel, paying attention to project supply chains and related risks is necessary more than past. due to specific structure of project supply chain based on government regulations, this article is aimed at presenting a model to mitigate risks on projects supply chain in state gas compan...

Coordination is very important in supply chain management and it is one of the main factors in supply chain profitability. Bullwhip effect is one of the basic obstacles to achieve coordination in supply chains and reduction of this phenomenon has an important role in supply chain harmony. The other side, costs of supply chain can be mitigated and customer service level can be increased by reduc...

Because of outsourcing and offshoring, supply chains have become longer and more complex in the past decade, with huge increases in intermediate and final goods destined for manufacturers and retailers in North America and Europe, originating in emerging markets in Asia. While overall costs of procurement have decreased as a result, CEOs and supply managers have also noted a strong increase in ...

this paper develops an operational perspective of supply chain sustainability, by considering it as a risk management process. it explores the nature of sustainability-related supply chain risks, distinguishes them from typical supply chain risks and develops an analytical process for their management. an empirical study is conducted to generate insights about how sustainability-related risks s...

It is necessary to research on how to manage risks in Chinese chemical industry supply chain effectively. After analyzing supply chain risks and mitigation strategies in Chinese chemical industry supply chain, firstly this paper defines the supply chain risk management problem in Chinese chemical industry. Then this paper develops a stochastic chance-constrained programming model to select opti...

Supply chains have expanded rapidly over the decades, with the aim to increase productivity, lower costs and fulfil demands in emerging markets. The increasing complexity in a supply chain hinders visibility and consequently reduces one’s control over the process. Cases of disruption such as the ones faced by Ericsson have shown that a risk event occurring at one point of the supply chain can g...

Today, many companies after achieving improvements in manufacturing operations are focused on the improvement of distribution systems and have long been a strong tendency to optimize the distribution network in order to reduce logistics costs that the debate has become challenging. Improve the flow of materials, an activity considered essential to increase customer satisfaction. In this study, ...

For many electronic supply chain networks in the world that can comprise hundreds ofcompanies with several tiers of suppliers and intermediate customers, there are numerous presentingrisks to consider. In the electronic supply chain, the situation are even worse, for the characteristics ofthis supply chain: excessive lean management, global sourcing and the rather more uncertain marketdemand. E...

the supply chain represents the critical link between the development of new product and the market in pharmaceutical industry. over the years, improvements made in supply chain operations have focused largely on ways to reduce cost and gain efficiencies in scale. in addition, powerful regulatory and market forces have provided new incentives for pharmaceutical firms to basically rethink the wa...