Supply Chain Management Information Systems (SCM IS) are increasingly critical for synchronizing information among the customers and suppliers of a supply chain. Wide variation and overlap in the functionality of different SCM IS makes analysis and comparison difficult. Traditional flat taxonomies using one or two dimensions of functionality have limited utility for software selection and analy...

Supply chain coordination has become a critical success factor for supply chain management (SCM). In the past few years, the researchers have widely emphasized that cooperation among supply chain (SC) firms is a key source of competitive advantage. This paper is focused on supply chain coordination from the perspective of inventory management. Li and Liu [1] developed a model for illustrating h...

Firms are seeking competitive advantages through supply chain management (SCM) to stay competitive in today’s global market. An inevitable endeavor of SCM is to promote information transparency that enables firms to coordinate supply chain activities efficiently to better meet ever-changing customer demand. Effective SCM requires that the underlying information technology infrastructure of the ...

McGill’s RedAgent, the winner of the 2003 Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario is examined. Supply chain management (SCM), the TAC SCM game and RedAgent’s unique market-based approach are introduced and described. RedAgent’s internal PC allocation market is analyzed, drawing comparisons between it and the class of scheduling problems. The paper concludes with som...

Supply chain management (SCM) has become an important management paradigm. As supply chain members are often separate and independent economic entities, a key issue in SCM is to develop mechanisms that can align their objectives and coordinate their activities so as to optimize system performance. In this paper, we provide a review of coordination mechanisms of supply chain systems in a framewo...

Supply Chain Management as a business strategy can combine both microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects of preferred value chains. This paper (1) shows the impact of SCM, (2) stretches out the three dimensions of performance, costs and quality of the processes along the supply chain and (3) highlights the SCM-enabler. The method of a process chain analysis is demonstrated for the allocation of ...

This keynote paper represents theory of Supply Chain Management (SCM) and its future implications as well as demonstrates chronological prospective of SCM in terms of time frame in different areas of manufacturing and service industries. SCM has been widely researched in numerous application domains during the last decade. Despite the popularity of SCM research and applications, considerable co...

Method To develop the National Drug Supply Chain Management Strategy (SCM) Strategy, BinFar formed a strategy team made up of key SCM partners and staff. A drug SCM situation analysis was undertaken in 14 units within the MOH, exploring SCM issues and concerns, including staff development. Based on the results of the situation analysis, a stakeholders meeting was held to determine the core subs...

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...

Supply chain coordination has become a critical success factor for supply chain management (SCM). In the past few years, the researchers have widely emphasized that cooperation among supply chain (SC) firms is a key source of competitive advantage. This paper is focused on supply chain coordination from the perspective of inventory management. Li and Liu [1] developed a model for illustrating h...