Supply Chain Management (SCM) is one of the most important concepts, which focuses on customer requirement and sets Core Company in the centre, integrating the suppliers, distributors and customers as a whole. Integration is the trend and advantage of SCM. It is necessary for the retail industry to introduce the concepts and methods of SC Integration Management. Through close cooperation and sy...

Supply chain management has become probably the most talked about factor in modern business. Prices, delivery, quality of products variety and innovation and services are the established aspects on which rivalry among the enterprises is being raised time by time and to confront the competition integrated supply chain is much needed tool. The purpose of this paper is to present the rapport betwe...

This study looks at organizations’ perceptions of the importance of absorptive capacity attributes in the deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) in a supply chain and their relationships with supply chain process integration and information technology infrastructure support. Data for this pilot research study was collected using a survey questionnaire administered online to members...

This paper develops a comprehensive model of supply chain integration and uses it to analyze and assess the operational and financial effectiveness of different e-collaboration tools at various levels of supply chain integration. This model is also used to evaluate the importance of the sequence in which e-collaboration tools are adopted in supply chain integration. Computational results from a...

According to the mobile supply chain management features and considering the limitations and obstacles in the mobile environment. This paper proposes a multi-agent integration middleware for mobile supply chain management, aiming to solve information integration and data synchronization problem without worrying about network or terminal heterogeneity in mobile environment, which can achieve mob...

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...

The objective of this study is to identify how dimensions of organizational flexibility enable inventory flow integration, evidently an efficiency imperative, across the supply chain. The paper investigates the impact of product modularity, use of teams and IT infrastructure reconfigurability as dimensions of organizational flexibility, on inventory flow integration across the supply chain. Dat...