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...

With the advent of technologies like RFID, it is now possible to track inventory in the real time. In case of RFID enabled Supply Chain the physical inventory and the system inventory is same, while in the traditional supply chain the physical inventory varies from the system inventory due to shrinkage, transaction and misplacement error. We developed a simulation model to study the traditional...

Supply Chain Agility is vital for organisations wanting to remain competitive in today’s dynamic business environment. There is increasing interest in deploying Business Intelligence (BI) in the Supply Chain Management (SCM) context to improve Supply Chain (SC) Agility. However, there is limited research exploring BI contributions to SC Agility. In this research-in-progress paper we propose a m...

To implement the multifarious real-time business scenario in the supply chain management system is very complex task. The supply chain management system contains multiple interdependent entities along with goals of maximized organizational goals and the maximized customer satisfaction. The multi-agent system approach offers the guarantee to assist the design and development of complex supply ch...

The current global market forces compel most companies to create an international supply chain. Most of these companies have examined the problems and issues that they encounter during the implementation of this international supply chain. These problems are related to the attitude and culture of people around the world or rooted in the nature of the supply chain. Thus, this study compares the ...

Utilisation of Supply Chain Management (SCM) practice by businesses has a number of consequences for internal management information systems, many of which have been dealt with in the literature. Accountants and managers need to manage their supply chain carefully by working closely with the counterparts of their business entity’s suppliers in numerous areas including cost accounting, cost and ...

Security management of modern supply systems raise challenges to various aspects of supply chain management (SCM) researches, demanding an integrated and holistic solution framework. In this article we concentrate on two fundamental instruments to support the pursuit of a security centric supply chain management (SecSCM) mission. Firstly the security taxonomy within the SCM context provides a c...

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...