we model a real-world case problem as a price competition model between two leader-follower supply chains that each of them consists of one manufacturer and one retailer. t he manufacturer produces partially differentiated products and sells to market through his retailer. the retailer sells the products of manufacturer to market by adding some values to the product and gains margin as a fracti...

Supply chain coordination has become a critical success factor for supply chain management (SCM). In the past few years, the researchers have widely emphasized that cooperation among supply chain (SC) firms is a key source of competitive advantage. This paper is focused on supply chain coordination from the perspective of inventory management. Li and Liu [1] developed a model for illustrating h...

Global trade of finished goods as well as global sourcing of components and raw material is gaining importance. The paper aims to investigate the impact of trade agreements and tariffs on global Supply Chains and to describe the implications for strategic supply chain management decisions in terms of supplier selection and plant locations. The present system of trade agreements and tariffs amon...

The literature on supply chain management has long extolled the virtues to be gained by organizations seeking to integrate their supply chain. These gains include greater data and information visibility, leaner and more efficient processes, vendor managed inventories, and higher profitability. Globalization and global supply chain operation, and supply chain visibility have become buzzwords for...

Supply chain management is a key of retail enterprises survival and development. For a better understanding, we intended to illustrate this concept with the case of Wal-Mart and Carrefour in China. In this article, we focused on the Wal-Mart and Carrefour’s supply chain management strategies in China, introduced the supply chain management from four parts. “Customer is the first consideration!”...

Nowadays, in highly competitive global markets and constant pressure to reduce total costs, enterprises consider group technology and Supply Chain Management (SCM) accordingly and usually separately as the key elements for intra and inter facilities improvement. Simultaneous consideration of the elements of these two disciplines in an integrated design can result in higher efficiency and ...

Inter-organizational workflows play an important role in supply chain management. The deployment of correctly designed workflow models helps avoid higher costs of breakdown, debugging, and fixing during runtime. The issue of workflow verification is even more critical in supply chain management as its workflow is comprised of a global workflow and the private workflows of all organizations invo...

The supply chain is a world-wide network of suppliers, manufacturing plants, warehouses, distribution centers, wholesalers and retailers where raw materials are purchased, processed and transformed to be sold to customers. Customer satisfaction is highly dependent on the flexibility of the supply chain such as its ability to respond to changes in demand. Supply chain management (SCM) is current...

Today’s competition is promoted from firm against firm to supply chain versus supply chain, globalization and competition is a common phenomenon so each organization should make its supply chain as a weapon against the others, in doing so this paper presented a conceptual, graphical, step by step methodology to construct supply chain strategies by integrating strategic management’s ...