The paper aims to discuss supply chain management challenges in Public Distribution System, a food security scheme in India, based on the data collected from the stakeholders. With particular focus on supply chain strategy, we explore how the social objectives lead to supply chain design which affect system’s performance.

Abstract Reducing the system failure rate of logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is the basic guarantee and supporting conditions of LSSC system operational stability. The paper, regarding the automobile logistics service supply chain system composed by logistics service integrators, logistics service providers and car manufacturer as the research object, sets up the fault tree model of the a...

Identifying the sources of conflict in a supply chain is the starting point of managing conflicts along chain and initiating the proper actions for lasting outcomes. An extended review of literature on sources of supply chain conflict was concluded with an ample list of various causes. The conflicts sources were classified in 8 categories: commercial, financial, logistics, management, quality, ...

Holding commercial negotiations and selecting the best supplier in supply chain management systems are among weaknesses of producers in production process. Therefore, applying intelligent systems may have an effective role in increased speed and improved quality in the selections .This paper introduces a system which tries to trade using multi-agents systems and holding negotiations between any...

The performance of a supply chain depends critically on the coordinating actions and decisions undertaken by the trading partners. The sharing of product and process information plays a central role in the coordination and is a key driver for the success of the supply chain. In this paper we propose the concept of “Linked pedigrees” linked datasets, that enable the sharing of traceability infor...

End-of-life strategies, such as remanufacturing, have gained ground in order to promote product reuse, reduce environmental impacts and costs, as well as to win new markets. The remanufacturing process preserves part of the product’s raw materials and added value during its manufacturing. This study addresses the system that includes remanufacturing in order to understand it and to define its e...

In the 21 century, competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demands in global market, agile capability and flexibility have been the new requirements in today’s Supply Chain Management (SCM). Some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve ...

Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply ch...

today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. while going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the united states, produce in india and trade in europe...

Coordination is very important in supply chain management and it is one of the main factors in supply chain profitability. Bullwhip effect is one of the basic obstacles to achieve coordination in supply chains and reduction of this phenomenon has an important role in supply chain harmony. The other side, costs of supply chain can be mitigated and customer service level can be increased by reduc...