While agro-industrial studies are influenced by economics theories researches on supply chain addresses questions of operational efficiency and effectiveness. This research aims to verify if there is any established system to evaluate supply chain performance in Brazil. The unit of analysis is a poultry meat supply chain that has a significant production volume driven to exportation.

Supply chain functions must operate in an integrated manner in order to optimize performance. However, the dynamics of the organization and the market make this challenging. In particular, the procurement function is a crucial link between the sources of supply and the organization. With most organizations spending at least one-third of their overall budget to purchase goods and services, procu...

The impact of globalisation and worldwide competition has forced firms to modify their strategies towards a real-time operation with respect to customers’ requirements. This behaviour allows the top management to move towards the concept of an extended enterprise in which a collaborative link is established among suppliers, commercial partners and customers. When the information flows involve e...

Sustainable supply chain management has emerged as a key approach for enterprises aiming to become environmentally sustainable. The study will investigate the kinds of environmental management practices that are undertaken by companies in greening the supply chain and how these practices affect the environmental and operational performance of the companies. The study provides additional insight...

In today's turbulent and uncertain environment, every company is subject to supply chain disruption. Supply chain disruption can have severe negative consequences on supply chain performance. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify and prioritize components of resilience supply chain in Isfahan brick industry. The present study was applied and mixed. Purposeful sampling method was u...

A method of model reference control is investigated in this study in order to present a more suitable method of controlling an inventory or a supply chain. The problem of difficult determining of the cost of change made in the control in supply chain related systems is studied and a solution presented. Both model predictive controller and a model reference controller are implemented in order to...

A manufacturing supply chain is an integrated set of business functions, encompassing all activities from raw material acquisition to final customer delivery. Delivering the right product at the right time in the right amount are essential objectives of efficient and effective supply chain systems. Thus, measures must be taken to ensure that all operational components of the supply chain system...

A novel supply chain operational transport planning model is developed in this paper. The goals of the model are to minimize the number of used trucks and the total inventory levels. Because of somewhat imprecise nature of vehicle capacities and decision makers’ aspiration levels for the goals, a fuzzy multiobjective linear programming (FMOLP) modeling approach is adopted. Moreover, an interact...

This research has developed an analytical framework based on resource-based theory. It intends to find out the impact of different attributes on supply chain performance and financial performance under different IT capabilities and application degrees. The hypothesis test model incorporating five measuring variables is conducted; they are strategy of e-business, application degree of e-business...

A method of model reference control is investigated in this study in order to present a more suitable method of controlling an inventory or a supply chain. The problem of difficult determining of the cost of change made in the control in supply chain related systems is studied and a solution presented. Both model predictive controller and a model reference controller are implemented in order to...