Recent developments in supply chain management information systems have greatly increased the ability of firms to integrate processes, systems, and information with their supply chain partners. Despite the apparent benefits of web-enabled supply chain integration, its further study and application is hindered by the lack of an empirically supported model for classifying the varying levels of su...

Nowadays, individual firms no longer compete as independent entities, but rather as an integral part of supply chain links. Davis (1993) and Min and Zhou (2002) claim that in a time of shortening product life cycle, complex corporate joint ventures, and stiffening requirements for customer service, it is necessary to manage the supply chain in a manner of completeness. Lee et al. (2007) find th...

Through the emergence of information and communication technologies and customer-oriented approaches in business and industry, for achieving competitive advantages and in order to remain at the top in every business, more exible and responsive supply chain systems are required. The next generation of supply chain systems must be agile, adaptive, cooperative, integrated and exible. Agent-based s...

It is now a norm in the convenience store supply chain that a logistics company (or companies) provides logistics services to both chain stores and their suppliers. The coverage rate of stores has become the major factor for winning in the marketplace of chain store businesses. Logistics companies need to establish a logistics center for each market area to provide quick response to the stores ...

Dr Silvia Estrada-Flores is Principal Consultant of Food Chain Intelligence, a consultancy business that provides advice in the practical aspects of the supply chain of perishable foods, from gate to plate; technical intelligence on the state of food logistics and food value chains; and operating procedures and plans to achieve an integrated supply chain. Silvia has worked extensively as a cons...

Substantial literature has been devoted to supply chain coordination. The majority of this literature ignores competition between supply chains. Moreover, a significant part of this literature focuses on coordination that induce the supply chain members to follow strategies that produce the equilibria chosen by a vertically integrated supply chain. This paper investigates the equilibrium behavi...

Considerable research has been carried out and literature available in the field of Supply Chain Performance Management since 1990. Different perspectives of Supply Chain Performance Measures are cost and non-cost perspective; strategic, tactical or operational focus; business process perspective and financial perspective. Successful supply chains use integrated measurement systems as a vehicle...

This paper examines the case of one supply chain in the electricity sector where RFID technology integrated with firm’s information systems acts as an enabler of process optimization. Using a business process approach and laboratory simulation, we explain how the implementation of RFID technology can increase the visibility of information at various layers of the supply chain, allowing members ...

Herbert Heinzel is Chairman of the European Chapter, Supply Chain Council, and is a senior partner of SBS Consulting, a business unit of Siemens Business Services, the information technology and communications arm of Siemens Corporation. He is responsible for the worldwide cross-company co-ordination of integrated supply chain processes and technology within a business portfolio that covers int...