The objective of this paper is to investigate Supply Chain Management (SCM) performance of selected companies in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) countries upon successful implementation of Information Technology (IT) applications. By carrying out an in-depth qualitative analysis, the paper seeks to evaluate how IT can enhance the SCM performance from a practitioner perspective. The survey result...

Due to the extensive competition in today’s markets and the rapid development of new products and services, many companies started to invest on implementing supply chain management system. The rapid development of the internet had helped companies to establish their electronic supply chain system with suppliers in order to enhance the business functions. This paper investigates how e-supply cha...

Today, companies realize the importance of involving the global supplier network early in the product development cycle. This involvement can begin as early as the conceptualization stage and continue across the design, production, distribution, and service phases—the entire product lifecycle. This implies that product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain management (SCM) can no longer b...

Nowadays, companies are suffering changes in the way they deal with their inventories and their whole supply chain management. New technologies are emerging to help them adapt to the changes and keep a competitive status, but the adoption of such technologies is not always easy. Even though a lot of research has been done for RFID, there are still some areas that are being left aside, like the ...

This is an exploratory research study that aims at serving as a primer on key concepts related to the development, status, practices and other constructs of green supply chain management (GSCM). It involves adopting an environmentally-conscious mindset in conducting company level, strategic, tactical and operational processes and is closely related to the broader concept of sustainability. Sinc...

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to offer a solution to differentiate supply chain planning for products with different demand features and in different life-cycle phases. Design/methodology/approach – A normative framework for selecting a planning approach was developed based on a literature review of supply chain differentiation and supply chain planning. Explorative mini-cases...

Global supply chain networks are undergoing a transition with mass customization, make-to-order, build-to-order and configureto-order type of order policies, shrinking profit margins, non deterministic order behaviour together with other uncertainties. Self-organized supply chain networks (SCN) are offering an alternative as they enjoy the flexibility need to respond in real time. In this paper...

In today’s competitive market place, companies seek an efficient structure of supply chain so as to provide customers with highest value and achieve competitive advantage. This requires a broader perspective than just the borders of an individual company during a supply chain. This paper investigates an aggregate production planning problem integrated with distribution issues in a supply chain ...

Nowadays, customer expectations are increasing and organizations are prone to operate in an uncertain environment. Under this uncertain environment, the ultimate success of the firm depends on its ability to integrate business processes among supply chain partners. Supply chain management emphasizes cross-functional links to improve the competitive strategy of organizations. Now, companies are ...

The great divide separating industries and companies within an industry is between those who are up shifting to real time supply chains and those who are not. Until today, very few organizations have succeeded in seamlessly integrating all levels of supply chain activities to achieve a quantum leap in business process. The ones that have succeeded are reaping big competitive rewards and offer u...