Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...

Supply chain management is an area which gains much attention both from scholars and practitioners when considering the relationship between economic and ecologic issues and goals. Initiatives from Green IT and Green IS are widely discussed and broad supply chain management concepts like Green SCM, which extends the concept of global supply chain management with ecological aspects like resource...

It has been recognized that collaboration is one of the key success factors of supply chain management. Enterprises in the supply chain exchange information through orders. In this paper, the supply chain is described as an order chain. Therefore, supply chain management becomes an issue of collaborative order life cycle management. By understanding that information sharing is beneficial in red...

The use of System Dynamics Modeling in Supply Chain Management has only recently re-emerged after a lengthy slack period. Current research on System Dynamics Modelling in supply chain management focuses on inventory decision and policy development, time compression, demand amplification, supply chain design and integration, and international supply chain management. The paper first gives an ove...

Supply chain management is about improving the products, processes and functioning of the chain of enterprises involved in the delivery of products and services from raw materials. This paper provides a brief review of supply chain management and reviews some supply chain transformation methodologies. A standard methodology that guides in the transformation of the supply chain is presented. Als...

How to effectively implement environmental management practices and supply chain integration to enhance technological innovation performance has become crucial in both research and practice. Based on resource-based view (RBV) theory, a theoretical model to determine the relationship between environmental management practices, supply chain integration, supply chain knowledge sharing, and technol...

The present study aimed to investigate the organic agricultural products supply chain in Iran and provide a processes maturity framework for this chain based on the Iranian Standard of the organic products. Accordingly, the model, proposed in this research, provides an improvement tool that addresses the integration of company's internal processes at low levels, and the integration of the proce...

Supply chain management (SCM) has recently attracted significant interests from academics and industry. Along with the growing concern of implementing supply chain management in many enterprises, there has been a proliferation of two kinds of software solutions, business-to-business (B2B) and supply chain management (SCM), which aim at improving the performance of supply chain. The first part o...

Agility and resilience have become increasingly important in recent years as sudden shocks to the supply chain more frequent. To improve level of integration increase agile operations, coordinated metrics, supplier collaboration product design, trust between suppliers are required, coordination within organization, correspondence information products design based on interaction sharing common i...