Agility in supply chains is critical for competitive advantages as it helps to explore and exploit opportunities in fast changing markets. Firms are increasingly dependent on information technology (IT) for supply chain management as a competitive tool to facilitate such agility. However, little research has been done on the role of IT on supply chain agility. The paper aims to address this gap...

Agile Manufacturing (AM) is a new concept in manufacturing intended to improve the competitiveness of firms. In 21 st century, businesses in order to overcome their competitors, should be able to handle challenges of demanding customers seeking high quality, low cost products and also become more flexible with their specific and rapid changing needs. One of the recent concepts in support of fle...

Through the emergence of information and communication technologies and customer-oriented approaches in business and industry, for achieving competitive advantages and in order to remain at the top in every business, more exible and responsive supply chain systems are required. The next generation of supply chain systems must be agile, adaptive, cooperative, integrated and exible. Agent-based s...

Changing customer and technological requirements force manufacturers to develop agile supply chain capabilities in order to be competitive. Therefore, several companies are stressing flexibility and agility in order to respond, real time, to the unique needs of customers and markets. However, the resource competencies required are often difficult to mobilise and retain by single companies. It i...

Long lead-time is hurting the competitiveness of supply chain, while shorter considered to be better in order add value customer and improve dependability. Supply chain integration increases coordination shortens processes. Agile practices also enable more responsive market variability. The aim this research investigate impact agile on reduction at Dubai HealthCare City. An empirical survey has...

Abstract: Inventory control systems development is one of the most appealing issues of the supply chain management which have recently been studied by academicians and practitioners. In this paper, an inventory management framework and deterministic cost models within the context of this framework are structured for effective supply chain (SC) in an agile environment. To do so, we propose a thr...

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This paper focuses on the emerging trends for optimizing costs in healthcare supply chains, including virtual centralization of utility utilization management practices, use RFID technologies, analytics, streamlining workflows, etc. The application these Technologies can enable affordable health care solutions developing countries.

The characterization of the current business practices by variations in demands and differences in customer requirements has motivated many firms to be responsive. Responsiveness is an increasingly important skill for firms in today's global economy; therefore firms must be agile. Supply chain agility can be regarded as an operational strategy, concerning customer responsiveness and flexibility...