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...

Simulation is a very useful tool for predicting supply chain performance. Because there are no standard simulation elements that represent accurately the activities in a supply chain, there exist a variety of approaches for developing supply chain simulation models. To improve this situation, this paper describes a novel supply chain simulation framework that follows the Supply Chain Operations...

Simulation is a very useful tool for predicting supply chain performance. Because there are no standard simulation elements that represent accurately the activities in a supply chain, there exist a variety of approaches for developing supply chain simulation models. To improve this situation, this paper describes a novel supply chain simulation framework that follows the Supply Chain Operations...

With the rapid development of e-commerce technology, enterprises, especially B2C have sprung up. This competition based on technology has changed traditional supply chain model and improved operation efficiency chain. However, with use demand relationship between enterprises become extremely complicated. The original risk management system in past long been unable to adapt needs new era. In vie...

bullwhip effect phenomenon is what reduces the efficiency of the supply chain. the effect occurs when demand changes in the supply chain face with a lot of volatility. so far, several key factors have been identified as causes of this phenomenon. since the steel industry, is the basic one, its efficiency is of great importance. therefore, in this study influencing factors on bullwhip effect in ...

1. Abstract The choice of reference processes during the design phase is of utmost importance for a supply chains’ overall performance. Nonetheless practical experience gained in consulting projects provides numerous examples of unaligned processes. Thus the research project to be presented in this paper is aimed at establishing an easy to use framework for aiding decision makers faced with thi...