Combining with the collaborations between business customers and suppliers, traditional purchasing and logistics functions have evolved into a broader concept of materials and distribution management, namely, supply chain management (SCM) (Tan, 2001). This chapter reviews the literature of SCM from several paths that can be the basis of a proposed framework for SCM within academic and manageria...

Reverse supply chain is a process dealing with the backward flows of used/damaged products or materials. Reverse supply chain includes activities such as collection, inspection, reprocess, disposal and redistribution. A well-organized reverse supply chain can provide important advantages such as economic and environmental ones. In this study, we propose a general framework and formulate a m...

：Online game is a typical E-business indusry. Firstly, the problem is pointed out that the present researches on supply chain contracts designed for tangible traditional products have not considered the characteristic of intangible products such as online game industry. Secondly, the members and operation progress of the supply chain are explored in online game industry. Thirdly, a new supply c...

The relationship between competition and cooperation in supply chain enterprises is not only affected by the factors inside the chain, but also by the competition chain. We choose two-level supply chain in this article, and discuss the four competition and cooperation states of manufacturer and retailer under the same market structure with reference chain, that is, cooperation-cooperation, comp...

In the recent years, companies have begun to strengthen their supply agreements, such as sharing the management of inventories. This type of cooperation implies that the members of the supply chain share information and arrange a mutual agreement on their performance targets. The increased interest on supply chain topics has attracted researchers’ attention to the problem of co-operation betwee...

Developing information systems normally requires feasibility and demand analysis before the designing phase. Particularly when the information systems are to be adopted for the purpose of supply chain management, the preliminarily analyses have to identify current operation processes and look into the constraints of enterprises capability to adapt ideal processes in a Business-to-Business (B2B)...

With reference to the characteristics of online supply chain finance, this paper establishes a credit rating index system for the loan enterprise in the online supply chain finance that is based on the third-party B2B e-commerce platform. The system applies the multi-level gray evaluation model based on the Theil index to make a comprehensive evaluation on the credit of the loan enterprise and ...

Efficient new product developments have been promoted in the technical fabric industry. Quickly response to market demand is an important and essential capability in the future. Collaborative design is one effective method that enables the product development design chain to achieve virtual integration. By means of IT platform, all the participants of design chain during research and developmen...

this paper has revised the combined model of chan & qi with supply chain operations reference (scor) .this combined model with hierarchical structure, has three levels and seven criteria that some criteria are quantitative (cost, use of source) and others of them are qualitative (quality, flexibility, tangible, validity and innovation). in order to improvement of this model, this paper has comb...