Driven by concerns regarding environmental sustainability, energy security, and economic growth, a fundamental transformation is taking hold in the electricity sector. Advanced communications technologies and information systems (IS) will play a central role in the realization of the ‘smart grid’, an intelligent and multi-directional electricity supply chain from generation to end-user consumpt...

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

the paper showcase the synergistic effect framework and apply it to a study on electricity energy groups of internet bidding platform on B2B supply business. We enumerate electricity grid enterprise group’s purchase system. Since 2006, by setting up the multi-layer purchase system based on internet. Chinese energy enterprise group began to adopt internet supply platform and take full advantage ...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper describes the construction of a dual-channel electricity supply chain, with an generation enterprise as leader and retail follower, examining sustainability price decision-making, formulates coordination contract to improve chain performance. The main results are follows. Firstly, sensitivity contributes increased sustainability, price, demand, ente...

The biomass supply chain is one of the most critical elements of large-scale bioenergy production and in many cases a key barrier for procuring initial funding for new developments on specific energy crops. Most productions rely on complex transforming chains linked to feed and food markets. The term 'supply chain' covers various aspects from cultivation and harvesting of the biomass, to treatm...