We present the application of data mining and analytics to support medical material management. Medical materials considered include medical equipment, drugs and pharmaceuticals, and blood. This paper presents the work performed in two different Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) funded projects – (i) Medical Material Knowledge Discoverer (MMKD), covering medical equipment, pharmaceuticals an...

A copula-based simulation model for supply portfolio risk in the presence of dependent breaches of contracts is introduced in this paper. We demonstrate our method for a supply-chain contract portfolio of commodity metals traded at the London Metal Exchange (LME). The analysis of spot price data on six LME commodity metals leads us to use a t -copula dependence structure with t -marginals and g...

The effective public security depends on the efficiency of the judicial process and procedure. Approaching to the supply chain management domain, the judicial procedures can be viewed as the complete stream sections. The legal agencies have also to deal with the information flow which need for integrating, interchanging and inter-cooperation among them. Anyway, the study in the intelligent syst...

Decision support and global knowledge discovery on SCM system have become an important issue, since SCM has become a common way for achieving competitive advantage. This research proposes a distributed data mining mechanism that uses a relationship metadata to integrate the data source derived from partner of the supply chain, thus solving the problem of excessive and various data volume in the...

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...

In today’s volatile and turbulent business environment, supply chains face great challenges when making supply and demand decisions. Making optimal inventory replenishment decision became critical for successful supply chain management. Existing traditional inventory management approaches and technologies showed as inadequate for these tasks. Current business environment requires new methods th...