Today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s ...

To help improve customer satisfaction management (CRM), greater emphasis is given to the aspect of quality in the supply chain. And improve supply chain performance through integrated business management and strategic partnerships. On the other hand, strategic supply chain management decisions are made at a company level that determine benefits and efficiencies of the supply chain and effective...

A spatial data infrastructure (SDI) is a complex integrated network of spatial data producers, distributors and consumers that can be viewed as an extended geographic information enterprise. A way of gaining a better understanding of an SDI is to break it down into its constituent components so that individual SDI entities and their interactions can be analyzed. Prior SDI literature suggests an...

51 Abstract— in order to achieve efficient supply chain integration for the processes or activities; the organizations should recognize and understand all the integration challenges of supply chain. Our goal in this paper is to answer the following question, what are the supply chain integration challenges? The reason behind introducing those challenges is the absence of a single source in the ...

Supply chain management (SCM) has recently attracted significant interests from academics and industry. Along with the growing concern of implementing supply chain management in many enterprises, there has been a proliferation of two kinds of software solutions, business-to-business (B2B) and supply chain management (SCM), which aim at improving the performance of supply chain. The first part o...

Supply Chain Management (SCM) adopts a systematic and integrative approach to manage the operations and relationship among different parties in supply chain. There are lots of issues for effective implementation of Supply Chain. One of the major issues is supplier development. Studies have investigated how quality management can be employed in SCM to improve performance in the whole supply netw...

This paper discusses the theory behind the existence of an idealistic model for business network governance and uses a clarifying case-study, containing governance structures and processes within a business network framework. The case study from a German pharmaceutical industry company complements existing literature by providing a comprehensive explanation of the relations between supply chain...

The global market is striving to increase competitiveness among organizations and networks. Nowadays, management of supply chains does not only consider business processes in the traditional value chain, but also processes that penetrate networks of organisations. Indeed, the formation of cooperation and collaboration partnerships between several small organizations can be, in multiple cases, m...

Bullwhip effect phenomenon is what reduces the efficiency of the supply chain. The effect occurs when demand changes in the supply chain face with a lot of volatility. So far, several key factors have been identified as causes of this phenomenon. Since the steel industry, is the basic one, its efficiency is of great importance. Therefore, in this study influencing factors on Bullwhip Effect in ...

Abstract Firms no longer compete as autonomous entities and prefer to joinin a supply chain alliance to take advantage of highly competitive business situation. Supply chain coordination has a greatimpact on Firm’sstrategic partnering and success in competitive business environment. In this paper, we propose a system dynamics simulation model for strategic partner selection in supply chai...