Background In the 1990s, public sector technicians, mainly pharmacists, were gaining skills to fulfil their responsibilities in supply chain management (SCM) through different training sessions. Supply chain management was neither recognized as a unique profession nor institutionalized under Ministries of Health. The increasing need for global dialogue regarding health supply chain experiences,...

Transformations in socio-economic space affect functioning of entrepreneurial activity, leading to a change the configuration business processes. In context increasing complexity external environment and digitalization, subjects must ensure activities effectiveness based on supply chains optimization. Entities are required use progressive methods chain management. The purpose study is analyze m...

Supply Chain Management is a network of facilities that produce raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products, and deliver the products to customers through a distribution system. The management of the supply chain and the roles of various actors involved differ from industry to industry and company to company. As a result Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become...

In today’s industrial world, 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 various companies involved. However, recent advances in planning, scheduling, and autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest, both in academia and in industry, in automating th...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) offer new perspectives compared to conventional, centrally organised architectures in the scope of supply chain management (SCM). Their structure inherently meets the requirements of decentralised supply chains, whereas conventional SCM systems are often restricted in terms of dynamic behaviour, handling severe disturbances at supplier sites as well as dealing with hig...

This chapter explores and evaluates the performance of supply chain management (SCM) (i.e., effectiveness and efficiency) in using global logistics information technologies (GIST) (i.e., information technology [IT] and information systems [IS]) in Hong Kong firms. This chapter is organized as follows. First, previous research on the role of functional information systems for supply chain manage...

This research-in-progress presents a framework, grounded in Coordination theory (Thompson, 1967), to examine coordination as a complementary investment to the business value of Supply Chain Management (SCM) environments. Given that one of the objectives of a SCM is to reduce transaction costs, including coordination costs, this framework proposes that for supply chains to prosper, the technolog...

In the 21 century, competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demands in global market, agile capability and flexibility have been the new requirements in today’s Supply Chain Management (SCM). Some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve ...

Supply chain management has become more important as an academic topic due to trends in globalization leading to massive reallocation of production related advantages. Because of the massive amount of data that is generated in the global economy, new tools need to be developed in order to manage and analyze the data, as well as to monitor organizational performance worldwide. This paper propose...

Background Indonesia comprises 17,000 islands and 495 districts. Decentralization mandates district health services, but ensuring proper supply chain management (SCM) capacity at the district level is a challenge. The ministry of health developed and implemented SCM training modules and guidelines; however, weaknesses in the system remain, particularly related to human resources. The ministry i...