Supply chain management is an organizational function that is critically important for organizational performance in today’s global business environment. Organizations are formulating various strategies to enhance supply chain performance and are continually seeking ways to gain a competitive advantage. This paper explores three widely acclaimed strategies: Lean, Agile and Demand-Driven approac...

Managing supply chains in today’s distributed manufacturing environment has become more complex. To remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must streamline their supply chains. The practice of coordinating the design, procurement, flow of goods, services, information and finances, from raw material flows to parts supplier to manufacturer to distributor to retailer and fi...

Supply chain scheduling is the very heartbeat of all supply chain systems. Optimization of the supply chain scheduling can help increase agility while reduce the running cost of corporations. Complying with its structure, supply chain of the networked manufacturing has the characteristics of distributed, multi plants and multi stages. In this paper, a thorough research was first done on the dec...