Supply Chain Management (SCM) in today’s global environment, especially the E-business is important to create significant competition advantages to firms and business partners worldwide. Since the objectives and goals are essential factors in the study of supply chain management in the Ebusiness. The purpose of this research paper is to present the research question, review the conceptual frame...

Supply chain management (SCM) and interorganizational information systems (IOIS) have gained significant importance in recent years, aided by anecdotal success stories of firms obtaining competitive advantage using these systems. Historically, the two streams of research have developed relatively independently, with operations and logistics researchers studying supply chains and information sys...

From the beginning, enabling the companies to lower operating costs and to fulfil increasing order volumes has been the main purpose of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems. However, the current SCM systems though bring some significant input still have issues when it comes to data integration between the stakeholders. Due to this matter, the documentation process also will be very challenging...

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...

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.” (Wittgenstein) Supply Chain Management (SCM) deals with the management of flows of goods, funds and information within and between supply chain partners in order to satisfy consumer needs in the most efficient way (Christopher, 1998). Information is one of the biggest drivers of supply chain performance. The concep...

Supply chain managers are trying to maximize the profitable operation of their manufacturing and distribution supply chain, but due to global competition in process industries and complexities of the supply chain processes together with large computational times, it has made optimization of supply chain management (SCM) quite difficult. Recently, Knowledge management (KM) is a new important inf...

Multiagenten-Systeme (MAS) eröffnen neue Perspektiven für das Supply Chain Management (SCM) im Vergleich zu herkömmlichen, zentralistisch organisierten Systemarchitekturen. MAS und ihre inhärent dezentralisierten Strukturen erfüllen in besonderem Maße die Anforderungen, die aus dem Management weit verzweigter Lieferketten erwachsen. Herkömmliche SCM-Systeme hingegen sind häufig begrenzt hinsich...

T he term supply chain management (SCM) has risen to prominence over the past 15 years, becoming such a " hot topic " that it is difficult to pick up a periodical on manufacturing, distribution, marketing, customer management, or transportation without seeing an article about SCM-related topics. Logistics, one central element of SCM, has long been an area of concern for both practitioners and a...

Adversarial relationships have long dominated business relationships, but Supply Chain Management (SCM) entails a new perspective. SCM requires a movement away from arms-length relationships toward partnership style relations. SCM involves integration, co-ordination and collaboration across organisations and throughout the supply chain. It means that SCM requires internal (intraorganisational) ...

Great changes within the business environment in the last 2 decades have made supply chain management (SCM) an important topic for academics and practitioners. Globalization, larger reliance on layered suppliers for specialized capabilities and innovation, changing customer needs, reliance on supply networks to maintain a competitive advantage, and developments in technology have all contribute...