the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

This paper seeks to design food supply chain structures that can provide food security for every person in the world while supporting long-term environmental sustainability. In particular, we provide alternatives to the current food supply chain structure and analyze their potential for providing food security, in terms of productive capacity and long-term environmental sustainability. Given th...

Sustainable product lifecycle systems are attracting increasing attention because of cost competition, resource constraints and environmental issues. Short lifecycle products, such as consumer and defense electronics, are of particular concern. We formulate a closed-loop supply chain with Stochastic Dynamic Programming method. By applying the concept of a sustainable product lifecycle, guidelin...

Rapid changes in business and the advent of Internet, have made supply chain management (SCM) important in determining the sustainable growth of companies. However, in a complex hierarchical network that links upstream to downstream firms, several uncertain factors affect the performance of a supply chain. Accordingly, mitigating the deleterious impact of uncertainty is important in planning a ...

nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

Supply chain finance (SCF) is receiving increasing awareness in research as a result of uncertainties the global financing for supply (SC). There are limited and fragmented studies implementations financial services SC management. This article builds on recovery from crisis 2008 posts COVID-19 pandemic, where crippled SCF providers brokers services. At same time, cutting-edge technological adva...

This article aims to serve several purposes. First of all, it provides an overview of the opportunities and challenges involved in the implementation of a sustainable supply chain, as well as the CLSC. Secondly, It includes an analysis of the cost saving, risk mitigation, the delivery of a superior service with the provision of returns and the opportunity of reducing the company’s carbon footpr...

Due to tremendous growth in information technology (IT) and economic globalization now the competition is among enterprises and their supply chains and not restricted to enterprises only. In the present global economic scenario, the organizations are forced to rethink their operations, alliances, partnerships and strategies to cope with these and similar changes. Supply chain competitiveness ha...

Environmental and economic issues have significant impacts on reverse supply chain management and are thought to form one of the developmental cornerstones of sustainable supply chains. Perusal of the literature shows that a broad frame of reference for reverse supply chain management is not adequately developed. Recent, although limited, research has begun to identify that these sustainable su...