Intensifying global competitions and rapid advancement of technology have promoted the needs for companies to work collaboratively with their supply chain partners in the form of a virtual enterprise, giving rise to virtual supply chain. However, given the concept was originated from the West, how to promote the application of virtual supply management concept in Asia has become an important is...

The MIT Global Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network is an international alliance of leading-edge research and education centers, dedicated to the development and dissemination of global innovation in supply chain and logistics. The Global SCALE Network allows faculty, researchers, students, and affiliated companies from all six centers around the world to pool their expertise a...

one of the important problems in project management is lack of available resources in proper time at project site that leads to lack of project implementation in due date. this problem may be lead to time delay in sending resources from suppliers and related origins in supply chain to project site. therfore, to better resources managmenet and also the improvement of supply chain condition, the ...

Today organizations to encounter with environment of global Competition and for prosperity in this environment. We need to radical changes and creative in work. Supply chain management (SCM) is a thunderstruck of organization with higher and lower relationship that are involve in process and activities and like presentation product and services to final customers to create value. So it is impor...

Within the globalization discourse, the concept of supply chain management has been actively investigated as it brings new challenges to the setting and organization of global freight flows (Leinbach and Capineri, 2007; Meixell and Gargeya, 2005; Waters, 2010). Every aspect of supply chain management, from product design, the sourcing of parts, the assembly and distribution has been impacted by...

The main objective of this paper is to provide the reader with a state of the art on the supply chain resilience. Markets globalization and global supply chains have to be regarded as business opportunities of economic development for each supply chain actor, but at the same time, they introduce a number of risks and vulnerabilities that affect the capability of the supply chains to maintain eq...

Managing income is a considerable dimension in supply chain management in current economic atmosphere. Real world situation makes it inevitable not to design or redesign supply chain. Redesign will take place as costs increase or new services for customers’ new demands should be provided. Pricing is an important fragment of Supply chain due to two reasons: first, represents revenue based ...

In this paper a variety of issues on the relationship between supply chains and transportation is provided. Although some of these issues are complementary to the presentations made by other analysts at the 2nd Conference on Agro-Industrial Logistics in Mediterranean Area, a few different directions for research are also highlighted. The first section provides an overview of supply chains and s...