blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

State-of-the-art supply chain management systems can be obtained from the supply chain operations referencemodel for business applications, advancement and practices. Problematic management processes in standard process reference model form improves competitive advantage, communication, dimensions, management, control and alter to a specific purpose among the supply chain management processes. ...

We are constantly confronted with environmental changes across the world ranging from extreme weather to a scarcity of water for nearly 2 billion people, nearly 40% of the world's population. Such phenomena and reality has created a movement across the globe to identify the causes of global warming and develop solutions to end it before it is too late. In a effort to address the growing evidenc...

The information explosion that has taken place over the past two decades has fundamentally changed the ways that companies do business. Today’s markets are driven more and more by information than by physical goods. Companies that cannot collect data and transform it into information are likely to experience difficulty competing in the near future (if they are not finding it difficult already)....

the purpose of the present study is to investigate the supply chain strategies and information system strategies alignment and the impact of these two strategies on supply chain management performance of manufacturing firms in khuzestan province. the population of this applied research consisted of 1716 manufacturing firms and with using cochran's formula for limited society, 231 firms wer...

today, companies need to make use of appropriate patterns such as supply chain management system to gain and preserve a position in competitive world-wide market. supply chain is a large scaled network consists of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, retailers and final customers which are in coordination with each other in order to transform products from raw materials into finished goods wit...

Integrating various suppliers to satisfy market demand is of great importance for e ective supply chain management. In this paper, we consider the ODE-PDE model of supply chain and apply a classical explicit fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme for the related ODE model of suppliers. Also, the convergence of the proposed method is proved. Finally a numerical example is studied to demonstrate the acc...