Exploring chain, network and cluster collaborative practices: implications for SMEs

The Design of Service System for SMEs Collaborative Alliance: Cluster Supply Chain

In order to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) cluster to face the global challenges, the definition of “cluster supply chain” is put forward as a new type of management pattern, which is the combination of industrial cluster and supply chain management. However, the related research on cluster supply chain is still in its infancy, and it is difficult to put theory results into practice. ...

A Collaborative Stochastic Closed-loop Supply Chain Network Design for Tire Industry

Recent papers in the concept of Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) have seen a rapid development in applying the stochastic models to get closer to real-world applications. Regaring the special characteristics of each product, the stracture of SCND varies. In tire industry, the recycling and remanufacturing of scraped tires lead to design a closed-loop supply chain. This paper proposes a two-st...

A Business Collaborative Decision Making System for Network of SMEs

Fostering collaborative meta-value chain practices

This paper presents the main advantages of creating a meta-value chain, as a source of sustainable competitive advantage in today’s markets. This is not an easy task, as complete collaboration between the enterprises forming the value-chain as well as a proper interaction of the collaborative and technological processes must take place. The final objective of offering to customers an extended v...

Technological Implications of Supply Chain Practices in Agri-Food Sector: A Review

Today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. While going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the United States, produce in India and trade in Europe...