Short Supply Chains

VMI-type Supply Chains: a Brief Review

The primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using VMI-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. In this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the VMI-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

Fuzzy revenue efficiency in sustainable supply chains

The performance assessment of supply chains including sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social is a significant aspect for managers and decision makers. Furthermore, imprecise data are presented in many real world applications. Therefore, the current paper proposes an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the revenue efficiency of sustainable supply...

Supply chains and terrorism

On the morning of September 11, 2001 the United States and the Western world entered a new era – one in which indiscriminate terrorist acts of all kinds must be expected. Many, if not most, of the expected consequences of the new era will be reflected in supply chain management challenges: relations with suppliers and customers, transportation difficulties and revised inventory management strat...

Automating Supply Chains

Actors in Supply Chains

Internet technology with its standards of exchange has been regarded as a method to reduce the amount of communication interfaces among the partners in supply chains. Since enterprises have a huge amount of relationships to partners fulfilling various tasks and business processes, the usage of the internet and its standards can hardly be considered to be the same interface for each actor. In fa...