Purpose This research develops a supply chain maturity model so that Mexican firms can evaluate their current supply chain operations and develop an improvement roadmap. Design/methodology/approach The Delphi Method was used with eighty experts in Mexico. The Delphi Method gathers multiple perspectives on supply chain operations and delineates a path to reach a group consensus. The results lead...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to begin to define the information technology requirements of an IT system/database for Habitat for Humanity’s supply chain challenges in the areas of planning, sourcing, and delivery of materials to build a home. Methodology – The methodologies employed in this work are: (1) a comparative assessment of commercial off-the-shelf information technology syste...

Information sharing has been cited as one of major means of improving supply chain performance. It allows companies to better coordinate their activities with their supply chain partners and generate improved performance. This paper reports results from a survey of information sharing practices in Australian manufacturing companies. The results indicate that the level of coordination between me...

Multi-agent systems (MAS) are becoming popular for modeling complex systems such as supply chains. However, development of multi-agent systems remain quite involved and extremely time consuming. Currently, there exist no generic methodologies for modeling supply chains using multi-agent systems. In this research, we propose a generic process-centered methodological framework, Multi-Agent Supply...

Demand prediction of supply chain is an important content and the first premise in supply management of different enterprises and has become one of the difficulties and hot research fields for the researchers related. The paper takes fresh food demand prediction for example and presents a new algorithm for predicting demand of fresh food supply chain. First, the working principle and the root c...

Today, enterprises are typically in a constant process of acquiring and updating its information technologies, however typically without an overall view of the global inter and intra enterprise’s system integration. Foreseeing the future of internet, researchers have been proposing new methodologies and platforms to assist such integration in the network of applications and data. However, imple...

Environmental concerns are intricately linked to various aspects of the supply chain. Awareness of such concerns is reflected in the contemporary business environment and in government legislation. The sustainable supply chain is an emerging trend in industrial development, where it is positioned as business innovation in this research. Based on the research gap identified in a literature map, ...

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...

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...