The manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. Existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. The authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of Indian manufacturing organizations. A rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. The...

Sustainability in the supply chain means pushing the supply chain to focus on social, economic and environmental aspects, and addressing the existing problems in the traditional supply chain. Considering the importance of evaluating supply chain networks, especially in the field of perishable commodities, this paper aimed to design a mathematical model for the reverse supply chain of perishable...

Long lead-time is hurting the competitiveness of supply chain, while shorter considered to be better in order add value customer and improve dependability. Supply chain integration increases coordination shortens processes. Agile practices also enable more responsive market variability. The aim this research investigate impact agile on reduction at Dubai HealthCare City. An empirical survey has...

The efficacy, quality, responsiveness, and value of healthcare services provided is increasingly attracting the attention and the questioning of governments, payers, patients, and healthcare providers. Investments on integration technologies and integration of supply chain processes, has been considered as a way towards removing inefficiencies in the sector. This chapter aims to initially provi...

Corporate image is an important organizational resource that enables to create, strengthen and sustain competitive advantage. Different antecedents have been identified for corporate image in the literature including quality of products and services, consumer consideration or distribution system. Green supply chain management appears to be an antecedent of corporate image too. This study examin...

An effective supply chain management practice improves the profitability and responsiveness of organizations. Like multinationals, small-scale enterprises are also capitalizing this feat. This paper presents a case study of a two level supply chain setting. Here a small enterprise i.e. vendor manages the inventory of the retailer. Vendor develops the forecasts and a database for replenishment d...

closed-loop supply chain network design is a critical issue due to its impact on both economic and environmental performances of the supply chain. in this paper, we address the problem of designing a multi-echelon, multi-product and capacitated closed-loop supply chain network. first, a mixed-integer linear programming formulation is developed to maximize the total profit. the main contribution...

We consider customer response time minimization in a two-echelon supply chain system with stochastic demand where the first echelon consists of one production plant and the other of one retailer. Traditionally models of this type only seek to minimize traditional operating costs. However, because of the highly competitive nature of the market, it is also essential for the manufacturer to respon...