from the beginning of emerging concept of supply chain, a variety of strategies or paradigms have been developed for supply chain organizations .the most important paradigms are four main paradigms, namely the lean, agile, resilience and green. each of these paradigms has advantages and disadvantages. using the benefits of this paradigms and the plan to eliminate the disadvantages of each parad...

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...

Coordinating stakeholder’s actions in a supply chain provides an efficient approach to enhance supply chain performance and win today’s fierce competition in the market. Using quantitative examples is proved to be an efficient pedagogical methodology to motivate students learning and facilitate students’ in-depth knowledge in supply chain management education. This study provides six quantitati...

The selection and implantation of sufficient and appropriate continuous improvement strategy are the key success factors for improving firm performance and enhancement of competitive advantage on manufacturing industries. As a result special role are given to Continuous improvement programs such as Supply Chain Management (SCM), Six-Sigma, Total Quality Management (TQM), Kaizen, Just-in-Time (J...

the need for high-quality medical equipment in the hospital supply chain has more than ever demonstrated the necessity and importance of quality management to be implemented by administrators in line with the iranian health reform plan. in this study, the game theory was used to model the strategies chosen by companies supplying medical equipment to hospitals. considering the process of self-le...

The supply chain process is a very critical in the pharmaceutical industry, and through digital drug serialization, we can mitigate risk of counterfeit counter consumers consuming fake drugs. To deliver medicines free counterfeiting, chain's integrity must be preserved. In this article, have focused on how may employ serialization without harming public's health. Even though corporations are wo...