Purpose – Provide insight into the determinants or constructs that enable informally networked supply chains to operate in order to achieve improved operational performance. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on the identification of dimensions of informal networking in supply chains along network connectivity, supply chain relationship alig...

The increase of international competition motivated most of the organizations to create useful shared mutual cooperation with supply chain partners since they understood that cooperation and collaboration of supply chain partners is the prerequisite for the increase of reliability level and the decrease of risks and also the enhancement of innovative qualities and profitability of the companies...

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...

Interrelationships and feedback loops between different enterprises in a supply chain are widely acknowledged to create additional challenges for risk identification and monitoring. However, each individual manufacturing enterprise is also characterized by interrelationships between its internal operational risks. Our paper investigates these internal interrelationships and provides insights in...

Drug counterfeiting is one of the major issues in the pharmaceutical industry across the world. These products could cause damages from ineffective treatments to death of patients. In order to fight against counterfeit drugs, the US government introduced Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) mandating that all prescription drugs should be serialized. In addition, it mandates all pharmaceutical...

The present work attempts to find the gap between agreement level and adoption level of various supply chain management (SCM) practices in paint companies who are operating in India. An empirical study was carried out with paint companies. Paired samples ttest was used to find out the difference in agreement and adoption level of various SCM practices and multiple regression analysis was used t...

Purpose — The purpose of this paper is to analyse the prerequisites and effects of centralised supply chain planning at IKEA, and to explore how the planning process, planning system, and planning organization make up a centralised planning approach. Design/method/approach — The paper is based on a longitudinal case study of IKEA's implementation of global supply chain planning. The literature ...

This paper presents a method for modeling the dynamic behavior of harbor supply chains and evaluating strategic and operational policies of the proposed harbor supply chain by applying multiagent systems and simulation. The multi-agent systems modeling represent business entities as agents and the involved information and material flows with proposed coordination method for collaborating among ...

Modern manufacturing enterprises are required to collaborate by their business partners through their business process operations such as design, manufacture, distribution, and aftersales services. And furthermore performance evaluation is of great importance for effective supply chain man agement. Therefore, DEA can help companies to remove some of the in efficiencies in operational processes ...

Background: In order to reduce the adverse effects of unethical decision-making in the operations function of firms, this study was conducted to identify and determine the causal relationships governing ethical decision barriers in operations and supply chain management. Method: This research is applied in terms of purpose and survey in terms of data acquisition. The research population includ...