supply chain management is a set of guidelines for integration of chains, which aims to reduce costs and increase system services to customers. one of the most important issues for supply chain stockholders is procuring and purchasing requested items in a timely manner. thus, a variety of models have been proposed as purchasing strategy in supply chains. group purchasing is a system which leads...

Generally, the inventory routing problem occurs in a supply chain where customers consider the supplier responsible for inventory replenishment. In this situation, the supplier finds the answer to questions regarding the time and quantity of delivery to the customer as well as the sequence of customers in the routes. Considering the effect of production decisions on answering these questions, t...

This paper aims to present a theoretical framework for performance measurement of supply chain quality management (SCQM). A review of the literature on supply chain quality management, supply chain and quality management was conducted to develop key performance measurements related to six areas of integration between quality management and supply chain management environment: leadership, contin...

This publication was produced for review by the U.S. Agency for International Development. It was prepared by the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT, Task Order 4. U SA ID | D EL IV ER P RO JE CT 2 00 9 Supply chain integration is a performance-improving approach that develops seamless linkages between the actors, levels, and functions within a supply chain to optimize customer service. The objectives of ...

Integrating the supply chain is increasingly being advocated as the basis for organizations to realize performance gains in the near future. This paper explores the relationships between IT infrastructure, digitization, resource flow integration in the supply chain, and its consequences for business value creation. Data for this study were collected by a survey of supply chain and logistics man...

Although large organisations have invested significant amounts of money to integrate their supply chains, the development of supply chain integration among Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) is slow-moving. For SMEs, integration is a significant problem due to high costs and technology requirements. Hence, they follow different approach to integrate their supply chains. In authors’ previo...

Flexible and dynamic supply chain network design problem has been studied by many researchers during past years. Since integration of short-term and long-term decisions in strategic planning leads to more reliable plans, in this paper a multi-objective model for a sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design problem is proposed. The planning horizon of this model contains multiple strate...