There are many stakeholders involved in supply chain management, and the supply chain itself is a complex, dynamic network that involves suppliers, manufactures, warehouses, retailers, and customers. Ontologies on the other hand are semantic primitives that specify a shared domain of knowledge. Having ontologies for supply chain management will facilitate knowledge sharing and communication amo...

The need for Supply Chain efficiency, agility and innovation has never been greater. When the current economic pressures and the ever growing global network of suppliers are taken into account, supplier visibility and risk mitigation are quickly added to the ongoing needs of improved efficiency, agility and innovation. Supply chains are also sources of competitive advantage, so more tools are n...

Globalization and outsourcing are two main factors which are leading to higher complexity of supply chain networks. Today’s complex distributed supply chain networks are vulnerable to various kinds of risks. Due to the strategic importance of having a sustainable network it is necessary to have an enhanced supply chain network risk management. The first step in the risk management is risk ident...

We develop a price competition model for a new supply chain that competes in a market comprised of some rival supply chains. The new supply chain has one risk-neutral manufacturer and one risk-averse retailer in which the manufacturer is a leader and retailer is a follower. The manufacturer pays a fraction of the risk cost (caused by demand uncertainty) to the retailer. We apply this competitiv...

This article resulted from our study of 3 manufacturing centric supply chain operations in Singapore through 4 iterations of Action Research (AR) guided by Gowin’s V (Rachan, 2007). Although, there is substantial volume of literature on the topic of Supply Chain Management, it came to our attention during the literature review stage of research process, that major concentration of literature wa...

In today’s competitive environment, companies must strive to cooperate in order to survive. Supply chain cooperation has become a strong asset relying on large integration and coordination of its well-structured processes. However, supply chain operations are conditioned by interoperability, for which until now is missing a tool that helps managers to identify and solve its problems. This artic...

Since 90s, the healthcare sector has changed rapidly. These changes oblige the healthcare sector to adopt the management principles applied by the other sectors. Many studies have been realized to reveal and emphasize the significant competitive advantage and cost reduction resulting from supply chain management (SCM) practices. However, the healthcare industry has been extremely slow to embrac...

Due to the emergence of the global economy and increased competition, many of the modern fishing companies have recognized that their fisheries rapid product introduction and service innovation to market the importance of supply chain management. To improve their competitiveness, many modern fishing companies have accepted supply chain management to improve organizational effectiveness and achi...

To be sure, all the industries try to be involved in globalization with a constant trend to find out ways to increase productivity across different functions within an organization to maintain competitive advantage world. Pharmaceutical industries are not exceptional and further are based on fragmentation. So these kind of companies need to cope with several barriers such as silo mentality that...