the revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. the fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. the output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...

This paper reports on the development of an open supply chain management system that is able to support the ebusiness activities of a contemporary enterprise. The system was first built to address the needs of a Greek textile industry and successfully integrated a workflow management module, a demand-side transactions module and a supply side transactions module with the company’s legacy ERP sy...

in recent years, there has been a great concern about strategic supply chain management. the supply chain configuration approach is related to strategic management of material and information flows. most of suggested configurations in the part of strategic direction are based on environmental factors and structure-conduct-performance approach. exploring supply chain configuration with emphasis ...

Within inter-organizational supply chains decentralized planning spheres lead to new challenges for the tracking and tracing of the fulfillment process. Nevertheless, information about progress and delays for instance in production has to be gathered to plan and to control the supply chain activities. Due to decentralized planning there is a lack of central information about structure and sched...

This paper explores and extends the supply chain management strategy for food products effectively and efficiently through analysis of insights to linked partnerships within the supply chain due to the possibility of a global food crisis. The required solution is a collaboration of all parties in the supply chain since an effective supply chain management strategy (ESCMS) for food products is t...

The small and medium enterprises (SMEs) play important roles since the economic development increase in Taiwan. SMEs and Micro-business are one of the main important industries subsidized by the government actively in recent year. Most management software of cloud computing focus on internal management such as procurement, sales & stock system, CRM system and bill management system. The SMEs in...

Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention and support from the industrial community. Demand forecast taking inventory into consideration is an important issue in SCM. There are many diverse inventory systems, in theory or practice, which are operated by entities (companies) in a supply chain. In order to increase supply chain effectiveness, minimize total c...

modern manufacturing enterprises are required to collaborate by their business partners through their business process operations such as design, manufacture, distribution, and aftersales services. and furthermore performance evaluation is of great importance for effective supply chain man agement. therefore, dea can help companies to remove some of the in efficiencies in operational processes ...