This paper is framed to address the preliminary approach towards process-oriented collaborative inventory management in supply chains, taking advantage of multiagent technology in terms of modeling and simulation. Initially, a SCM support model is proposed as a foundation to combine the supply chain processes with the multi-agent system. In succession, a simple PC assembling case is investigate...

Background The human resource crisis extends into all areas of a health system—including the supply chain. Access to quality HIV commodities for testing, treatment and care can be impeded by staff lacking skills in health supply chain management (SCM) often resulting in stock-outs and expiries. In Nigeria, SCMS set out to build in-country capacity to accelerate current and future health workfor...

Manufacturers have been exploring innovative strategies to achieve and sustain competitive advantages as they face a new era of intensive global competition. Such strategy is known as Supply Chain Management (SCM), which has gained a tremendous amount of attention from both researchers and practitioners over the last decade. Supply chain management (SCM) is considered as the most popular operat...

Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the companies involved, but advances in autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest in automating the process. The Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario provides a unique testbed ...

One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as autonomous entities but rather as supply chains. However, the majority of companies, especially small and medium enterprises, fail to design and manage their supply chains in a profitable way, as it is difficult to understand the complex dynamics of Supply Chain Managemen...

Coordination is considered a fundamental element to achieve a better supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in today turbulent business environment. Supply chain coordination requires that all stages to take actions to maximise the global supply chain profit. Coordination is then an integral part of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. The SCM approach is the systemic strategic coordi...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a strategic paradigm to coordinate cash, material, and information flows from raw material to customer. Supply chain simulation (SCS) is a strong and popular tool for designing, evaluating, and optimizing the structure of supply chains, and it requires an important task to estimate the effect of the planning to coordinate such flows in SCM. Stochastic natures ex...

K. Dohn, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Zabrze, Poland A basic element of supply chain management is the holistic or system view. Following this perspective supply chain management has to analyse the supply chain as a whole and must not only c oncentrate on details or speciĀ c elements. The conĀ gurational approach is one method for realizing this...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a very challenging problem that is leveraging the e-commerce explosion. Today’s supply chains are essentially static, because they rely on long-term relationships among key trading partners. Dynamic practices are vital because they offer better matches between suppliers and customers as market conditions change. This paper presents a flexible architecture for de...

The emergence of electronic Business, or e-Business, has changed the operations and contents of traditional supply chain management or SCM. e-Business not only makes the operation of SCM more effective, but also plays the role of a major driving force to induce the development of new features of SCM by destroying the rules and orders that once governed and controlled SCM in the past. Based on t...