Improvement in supply chain performance is one of the major issues in the current world. Lack of coordination in the supply chain is the main drawback of supply chain that many researchers have proposed different methodologies to overcome it. VMI (Vendor-managed inventory) is one of these methodologies that implementing it has some obstacles. This paper proposes new model that is agent-managed ...

   The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology management elements on organizational agility using the structural equation technique. The research method was descriptive with the use of survey and the statistical population of the study consisted of all 500 managers and employees of Refah chain stores in the city of Tehran. The sample was selected through cluster <...

Increased connectivity and data availability enable new ways of conducting business, but they also create new security vulnerabilities. For example, to streamline a financial transaction, an organization might want to give certain strangers — that is, parties from outside its security domain — access to some of its local resources. Before doing so, however, the organization must establish firm ...

employee-customer-profit(ecp) chain is one of the guidelines for organizations‘success in their life cycle. strong relationships have been found betweenemployees' attitudes and behaviors, employees' behaviors and customers'impressions, and customers' impressions and revenue growth. out of this chain,there are some factors that can influence the processes through which these factorsinteract. one...

Goodhue and Thompson (1995) proposed the Technology-to-Performance Chain (TPC) model in 1995 to help end-users and organizations understand and make more effective use of information technology. The TPC model combines insights from research on user attitudes as predictors of utilization and insights from research on task-technology fit as a predictor of performance. In this chapter, the TPC mod...

In this chapter, we discuss how lack of coordination leads to a degradation of responsiveness and an increase in cost within a supply chain. We describe various obstacles that lead to this lack of coordination and exacerbate variability through the supply chain. We then identify appropriate managerial levers that can help overcome the obstacles and achieve coordination. In this context, we also...

The aim of this research is to propose a model that relates information technology (IT) investments, supply chain governance (SCG) and performance together. For this purpose, a pilot study involving both a qualitative and a quantitative stage was conducted. The qualitative analysis, consisting of an extensive literature review and two case studies conducted in six major, globally-relevant Brazi...

Modern multiagent technology can be applied fruitfully to supply chain or to be more precise to demand chain management. In current research there is not much discussed in this direction because today’s business processes are often characterized more by small solutions than by integrated ones. This paper will prove that this approach offers very new and challenging possibilities to manage deman...