Purpose Research on the “black box” of cognitive capital remains limited in supply chain resilience (SCRES) literature. Drawing from an in-depth single case study a major consumer electronics multinational facing COVID-19 disruption, this paper aims to develop clearer picture capital’s elements while contextualizing how they interact with SCRES temporal capabilities prepare, respond, recover an...

The paper introduces and discusses definitions and concepts from the supplier relationship management area. This review has the goal to provide readers with the basic conditions to understand the market mechanisms and the technological developments of the SRM market. Further on, the work gives a picture of the actual business environment in which the SRM vendors are in, and the main trends in t...

We study supply chain risk mitigations by incorporating expedited shipping. The firm we consider can source from two suppliers—one is unreliable while the other is perfectly reliable but more expensive. It intends to mitigate the potential risks caused by random disruptions at the unreliable supplier by adapting its risk mitigation policy based on the supplier’s disruption factors, such as the ...

Agricultural supply chain (ASC) plays a vital role for sustainability as it is the main source of food supply. ASC encounters more sources risk due to seasonality, perishability, and weather conditions, which makes global security system complex. This paper develops an optimization model perishable product decide optimal management strategy that maximizes decision maker's expected profit under ...

Supplier selection and order allocation decisions are the main parties of a supply chain network which has high impact on economic performance this network. This study using an Economic Order Quantity (EOQ) concept proposes optimization model for integrated supplier problem where lot sizing, discounts, disruptions contributed among first studies in research area. To address uncertainty, scenari...

Nowadays, logistics and supply chain management (SCM) is critical to compete in the current turbulent markets. In addition, in the global context, there are many uncertainties which affect on the market. One of the most important risks is supplier disruption. The first step to cope with these uncertainties is quantifying them. In this regard many researches have focused on the problem but measu...

Supplier reliability is a critical issue for manufacturing companies. Delivery delays from suppliers create backlog and firefighting on the shop floors. To avoid disruption hedge against supplier lead time uncertainty, companies rely diversification, multi-sourcing, safety times. In buyer might order same product (raw material) different suppliers. The design of robust cost-efficient purchasing...

Distinctive technology and customer / supplier relationships are currently the primary sources of competitive advantage in the Aerospace industry. Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) requirements represent a significant disruption to this mode of competition. The United States Department of Defense intends to accelerate the rate of aerospace innovation and inject additional competitiveness ...

This paper investigates how the formation of larger buyers affects a supplier's profits and, by doing so, his incentives to undertake non-contractible activities. We first identify two channels of buyer power, which allows larger buyers to obtain discounts. We subsequently examine the effects of buyer power on the supplier's incentives and on social welfare. Contrary to some informal claims in ...