There are many reasons for the growing interest in developing new product projects for any firm. The most embossed reason is surviving in a highly competitive industry which the customer tastes are changing rapidly. A well-managed supply chain network can provide the most profit for firms due to considering new product development. Along with profit, customer satisfaction and production of new ...

nowadays we know effective supply chain management a key to business success. therefore, supply chain managers use many practices for scm effectiveness and many tools as their enablers. nevertheless, literature about causal relations between sc enablers and scm practices and performance is scarce. this study reports a cognitive mapping of causal relationships between scm practices, sc enablers ...

How to effectively implement environmental management practices and supply chain integration to enhance technological innovation performance has become crucial in both research and practice. Based on resource-based view (RBV) theory, a theoretical model to determine the relationship between environmental management practices, supply chain integration, supply chain knowledge sharing, and technol...

Organizations have started to realize that it is vital to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the organizational performance and supply chain simultaneously. However, only few manufacturing firms have obtained significant benefits by effectively utilizing supply chain management practices. Therefore, it is still not clear how supply chain management can be applied to enhance and improve...

managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in scm. therefore, using certain information systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...

abstractin this study, a vendor-managed inventory model is developed for a single-vendor multiple-retailer single-warehouse (sv-mr-sv) supply chain problem based on the economic order quantity in which demands are stochastic and follow a uniform probability distribution. in order to reduce holding costs and to help balanced on-hand inventory cost between the vendor and the retailers, it is assu...