Nowadays, Economic systems play an important role in environment's field. Along with the rapid change in global manufacturing scenario, environmental and social issues are becoming more important in managing any business. Increasing pressures and challenges to improve economic and environmental performance have been caused developing countries in generally in particular to consider and to start...

Wireless sensor networks are expected to revolutionize our abilities in sensing and controlling the physical environment. Power conservation is a primary research concern for these networks, due to the limited energy resources of the sensor nodes. In this paper we study the data delivery approaches, suitable for hierarchical cluster based wireless sensor networks. A radio energy dissipation mod...

Forward-reverse logistics network has remained a subject of intensive research over the past few years. It is of significant importance to be issued in a supply chain because it affects responsiveness of supply chains. In real world, problems are needed to be formulated. These problems usually involve objectives such as cost, quality, and customers' responsiveness and so on. To this reason, we ...

Competition is the driving force of today's economy and it is vital for organizations to gain competitive advantages. In recent years, outsourcing has been the focus of managers as a tool for developing organizations and improving productivity. This study deals to analyze the outsourcing risks of the supply chain in the automotive industry using fuzzy inference systems. For this purpose, in the...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economical performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, gre...

In this decade, due to the current competitive environment,reputation of industrial brands is markedly dependent upon theperformance of their supply chain. Therefore, it is necessary to examinethe factors affecting their supply chain so as to increase the competitivenessof their chain. Productivity is among the most important factorsin the advancement of industry and its evaluation requires the...

supply chain network design decisions are among the strategic decisions of supply chain management which play significant role on the efficient performance of the supply chain. however, there are two challenging factors which may have great impact on the supply chain performance. these factors are on the one hand disruptions and their attendant damages and on the other hand uncertain nature of ...

Nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets, agility has been considered as a fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival. To achieve the competitive edge, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. Consequently Agile Supply Chain (ASC) is considered as a dominant competitive advantage.  ...

Reliability evaluation is the basis of the supply chain. Although after 9.11 reliability of supply chain turns to be the focus of the enterprises and the government, little research has been conducted through out the globe. In nature, the supply chain is the integration of material, capital, and information flows. Therefore the evaluation of the supply chain reliability should be considered bas...

Purpose Increasingly, studies are reporting supply chain analytical capabilities as a key enabler of agility (SCAG) and performance (SCP). This study investigates the impact environmental dynamism competitive pressures in analytics setting, how intangible (ISCAC) moderate relationship between big data characteristics (BDC's) SCAG support enhanced SCP. Design/methodology/approach The draws on li...