Reverse supply chain is a process dealing with the backward flows of used/damaged products or materials. Reverse supply chain includes activities such as collection, inspection, reprocess, disposal and redistribution. A well-organized reverse supply chain can provide important advantages such as economic and environmental ones. In this study, we propose a general framework and formulate a m...

Supply chain coordination has become a critical success factor for supply chain management (SCM). In the past few years, the researchers have widely emphasized that cooperation among supply chain (SC) firms is a key source of competitive advantage. This paper is focused on supply chain coordination from the perspective of inventory management. Li and Liu [1] developed a model for illustrating h...

The increase of international competition motivated most of the organizations to create useful shared mutual cooperation with supply chain partners since they understood that cooperation and collaboration of supply chain partners is the prerequisite for the increase of reliability level and the decrease of risks and also the enhancement of innovative qualities and profitability of the companies...

Over the past decade, firms have adopted supply chain management as a critical element of their corporate strategies. Despite these efforts, it is our observation that many firms do not realize the anticipated benefits of constructing collaborative operating relationships with supply chain partners. Our purpose in this paper is to establish a set of guiding principles for the effective design a...

in the current competitive market, productive and economical firms need to manage and monitor resources and elements related to outside the organization, in addition to considering the organization and its internal resources. so today, supply chain management is proposed as one of the fundamental infrastructures for implementing e-commerce worldwide. supply chain management is a phenomenon that...

Supply chains are facing different types of uncertainty associated with today‘s business environment. Uncertainty in the supply chain may arise from a number of sources such as demand and supply interruptions, production/logistics capacity changes and lead time variability. To cope with this problem and lessen the impacts of such uncertainties, an effective strategy is to incorporate flexibilit...

The objective of this study was to determine the effects Strategic Supply chain responsiveness on competitive advantage Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Nairobi City County. anchored Value Chain Theory. A descriptive research design used in study. Employees selected specific functional divisions, such as information technology, human resource, finance, sales customer service, marketing, were s...

traceability is a basic requirement for the most of products from the viewpoint of governments and customers. it has base of quality systems and supports integration of supply chain information systems. this paper has presented a holistic model for supply chain traceability through structural equation modeling. this model will support recall of products, quality assurance requirements, improve ...