The management of internal and external processes or functions to satisfy a customer’s order from raw materials through conversion and manufacture through shipment is attributed to supply chain management. Recent studies indicate that supply chain performance affects over 85% of a manufacturer’s costs and a large percent of its revenues. Monitoring this performance through measurements is pract...

Incorporating sustainability into the supply chain is becoming a key priority for many textile and apparel companies. For example, H&M, Patagonia, and The North Face have incorporated various approaches to enhance their levels of sustainable supply chain management. Typical approaches include sustainable product strategy, sustainable investment, sustainable performance evaluation, corporate soc...

every country actively and initiatively takes all kinds of policy steps to improve the international competitiveness of its industries and therefore improve national integrated competitiveness for the purpose of gaining economic benefits under the context of economic globalization. therefore, studies of moreover, projects launched by the cluster had to be endorsed by the growers and one criteri...

This paper establishes the need for Supply Chain Performance Measure through the review of available literature on supply chain. The evaluation of various performance measure frameworks and metrics already available suggests that supply chain performance measure can be observed under various categories such as cost and non-cost; strategic and operational level; financial and business process pe...

To save the cost for customers and distribution center is the key issue to survive for distribution centers. The low service efficiency will certainly lead to increased distribution cost. It is a universal concern problem for distribution industry even for logistics industry to improve distribution service efficiency. On the basis of analyzing the characteristics of customer needs and the chara...

While firms understand that implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) is important, they seem uncertain about how to manage their initiatives by looking beyond own facilities. Building a requires the participation of all partner across chain. However, are different in size, situation, capabilities, and even industries. Thus, encouraging them participate difficult. Many small medium ente...

Nowadays, with respect to knowledge growth about enterprise sustainability, sustainable supplier selection is considered a vital factor in sustainable supply chain management. On the other hand, usually in real problems, the data are imprecise. One method that is helpful for the evaluation and selection of the sustainable supplier and has the ability to use a variety of data types is data envel...

The MIDAS system is an automated supply chain management system that enables customers, manufacturers, and suppliers to cooperate over the Internet. MIDAS aims to achieve high customer satisfaction by supporting the build-to-order customization model and to reduce inventory carrying costs and logistics administration costs at the manufacturer by supporting the just-in-time manufacturing model. ...

closed-loop supply chain network design is a critical issue due to its impact on both economic and environmental performances of the supply chain. in this paper, we address the problem of designing a multi-echelon, multi-product and capacitated closed-loop supply chain network. first, a mixed-integer linear programming formulation is developed to maximize the total profit. the main contribution...