While firms understand that implementing green supply chain management (GSCM) is important, they seem uncertain about how to manage their initiatives by looking beyond own facilities. Building a requires the participation of all partner across chain. However, are different in size, situation, capabilities, and even industries. Thus, encouraging them participate difficult. Many small medium ente...

I n 1996, the Supply-Chain Council (SCC) developed the supply-chain operations reference (SCOR) model as the cross-industry standard for redefining and advancing supply chain management systems and practices. The SCOR model is a process reference model that integrates business process reengi-neering, benchmarking, and best practices. The SCOR model framework contains standard descriptions of ma...

blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

The purpose of this study is to investigate and discuss the challenges namely, barriers solutions developing return supply chain policies in automotive industry. This industry has been suffering governmental pressure achieve sustainability all industrial processes. solution reorganize rethink product from beginning (closed-loop evolving cradle-to-cradle chain); however, literature about process...

the concept of coordination in supply chain management is different from the viewpoint of the roles of this chain and this difference causes more uncoordination at the entire of the supply chain. hence, regarding to the importance of this subject at the performance of supply chain, the clarification of the coordination concept as a casual model seems very necessary. in this research, the cognit...

Nowadays, Military products of superpowers countries have a high level of diversity, delivery speed, and appropriative operational functionality. Therefore, Production of varied, high quality and high speed delivery military products, is essential for enhance Iran's defensive deterrence power. Defense industries supply chain agility is an answer to how to produce military products with these f...

Supply chain network design (SCND) problem has recently been gaining attention because an integrated management of the supply chain (SC) can reduce the unexpected/undesirable events and can affect definitely the efficiency of all the chain. A critical component of the planning activities of a manufacturing firm is the efficient design of its SC. Hence, SCND affords a sensitive platform for effi...