Supply chain management aims to add value across the supply chain and customer service is now a major strategic issue. Supply chains are complex and subject to variables of forecast, supply, process, and transportation which can lead to problems such as the bull whip effect, product lateness, damaged goods and stock outs. A key issue facing companies today is how to monitor and control performa...

With the increase in environmental awareness, competitions and government policies, implementation of green supply chain management activities to sustain production and conserve resources is becoming more necessary for different organizations. However, it is difficult to successfully implement green supply chain (GSC) activities because of the risks involved. These risks alongside their resourc...

In today's turbulent and uncertain environment, every company is subject to supply chain disruption. Supply chain disruption can have severe negative consequences on supply chain performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize components of resilience supply chain in Isfahan brick industry. The present study was applied and mixed. Purposeful sampling method was u...

Business analytics in supply chains – the contingent effect of business process maturity. Expert Systems with Applications, 2012, in press. The draft of the paper is provided for non-commercial use. The final published version as it appears in the journal (PDF and HTML) will be available on the Elsevier site. Abstract The paper analyzes the effect of the use of business analytics on supply chai...

Changing market environment, global competition, rapidly fluctuating customer demands and more complex global network of supply chains require new production conceptions (Pull, Lean) and technologies. Novel supply chain paradigms (1. Lean-, 2. Agile-, 3. Leagile Supply Chain) are forms in order to increase and maintain competitiveness of companies. New organization and cooperation forms are for...

It is often suggested that food supply chains are typical for what can be achieved in supply chain management. This paper challenges this believe by investigating the possibilities and limitations for supply chain integration for food processing companies. We argue that a combination of typical food characteristics and the use of shared resources limit the possibility for integration, while unc...

Companies seeking to survive in the business need to meet the customer demands for variety, time, price and quality. The challenge faced by a supply chain delivering fashion products is to develop a strategy that will improve the match between supply and demand and enable the companies to respond faster to the market. These results in three fundamental supply chain strategies namely, lean strat...

Information Technology (IT) has been widely employed in supply chain operations, helping companies to respond to clients’ needs in real time, facilitate paperless transactions, reach out to difficult-toaccess markets, and outperform competitors. This paper presents a theory-driven, validated higherorder construct that measures e-supply chain capability, integrating typical procurement and order...

Given constantly fluctuating market demands, short life cycles of products and global market trends, companies must effectively design, produce and deliver products and services (Christopher & Juttner, 2000). A Supply Chain Management (SCM) system involves managing and coordinating all activities associated with goods and information flows from those raw materials sourcing to product delivery a...