The aim of this paper is to identify areas for improving the level of supply chain management (SCM) execution. A conceptual model was developed that proposes internal and joint SCM conditions and the adoption of SCM processes as the main antecedents of SCM execution. Based on a survey of 174 senior managers representing large organizations structural equation modeling was conducted followed by ...

Supply chain management (SCM) and total quality management (TQM) are two of the important tools that manufacturing companies use to achieve competitive advantage. Some of the important capabilities that these companies seek to acquire through the use of these tools to be able to compete effectively include quality, efficiency, and innovation (Daghfous, 2004). Quality is an important factor in t...

Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...

The emergence of electronic Business, or e-Business, has changed the operations and contents of traditional supply chain management or SCM. e-Business not only makes the operation of SCM more effective, but also plays the role of a major driving force to induce the development of new features of SCM by destroying the rules and orders that once governed and controlled SCM in the past. Based on t...

In supply chains, information sharing is the key of improving the performance of Supply Chain Management(SCM). The existing literatures have mainly studied the importance and necessity of information sharing. The paper tries to study the value of infomtation sharing in supply chains from relatively complete perspectives, which has not been referred before.

With the emerging of global economy and the development of the technology in computer and communications, the enterprises are facing to new opportunities but also more challenges, which led to the concept of SC (Supply Chain). By controlling and collaborating each part of the supply chain, SCM (Supply Chain Management) reaches the aim of reducing the cost, improving the quality as well as servi...

Unternehmensübergreifende RFID-Systeme liefern feingranulare Daten über physische Prozesse in der Wertschöpfungskette. Diese Daten müssen in geeigneter Weise aufbereitet und ausgewertet werden, um für das Supply Chain Management (SCM) optimalen Nutzen stiften zu können. Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden Möglichkeiten der Verwertung von RFID-Daten in SC-Prozessen untersucht. Hierzu werden zunächst ...