Supply Chain in the Cloud

2015 ◽  
pp. 24-36
Author(s):  
Goknur Arzu Akyuz ◽  
Mohammad Rehan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Strategic Partnerships ◽  
Business Process Outsourcing ◽  
Cloud Technology ◽  
Data Ownership ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Lock In ◽  
Cloud Applications

Cloud concept is directly related with the beyond-ERP integrity and collaboration across a number of heterogeneous Supply Chain (SC) partner infrastructures. The technology enables partners to form a collaborative SC community without the burden of significant IT investment. Cloud applications offer significant opportunities from SC perspective, and the assimilation of the Cloud Technology is not complete yet in the Supply Chain domain. It also involves various barriers from implementation perspective, as well as the concerns related with vendor lock-in, security, reliability, privacy and data ownership. This chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of the opportunities and barriers as well as the generic treatment from SC perspective. It also highlights how the cloud technology represents a perfect fit with the ideas of ‘Collaborative Supply Chains', ‘Business Process Outsourcing' and ‘long-term strategic partnerships, which are the key themes characterizing the Supply Chains of today's era. This chapter reveals that the intersection of the topics ‘Cloud computing' and ‘Supply Chain' is a promising area for further research. Further studies in a multi-partner setting with respect to a variety of configurations, case studies and applications, as well as the security, reliability and data ownership issues are justified.

scholarly journals From Suspicion to Sustainability in Global Supply Chains

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-418
Author(s):  
Robert C. Bird ◽  
Vivek Soundararajan
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Trust Building ◽  
Global Supply Chains ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Sustainability Practices

Global supply chains power 80% of world trade, but also host widespread environmental, labor, and human rights abuses in developing countries. Most scholarship focuses on some form of sanction to motivate supply chain members, but we propose that the fundamental problem is not insufficient punishment, but a lack of trust. Fickle tastes, incessant demands for lower prices, and spot market indifference force suppliers into a constant struggle for economic survival. No trust can grow in such an environment, and few sustainability practices can take meaningful root. Responding to multiple calls for scholarship in the supply chain literature, we propose a trust-building process by which supply chains can evolve from indifference and hostility to a relational partnership that produces joint investments in sustainable practices. The result is a supply chain that is more efficient, more humane, and embeds sustainability in the supply chain for the long-term.

scholarly journals Assessment of behavioral factors influencing cooperation in logistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Kolodizieva
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Dual Relationships ◽  
Behavioral Factors ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
The Social

The article explores theoretical and methodical aspects of managing dual relationships that arise between participants in logistic cooperation in the process of formation and functioning of supply chains. The use of a behavioral approach to defining supply chains has allowed identifying and justifying the priority role of behavioral factors that influence modern logistics entities and determine the effectiveness and long-term satisfaction with logistics cooperation. Given the literature summary, the study has classified types of cooperation in logistic activity and proved that among the behavioral factors influencing the of logistical cooperation efficiency, the trust is of particular importance, which remains a limitation, a bottleneck in the process of formation and development of dual relationships in logistics chains. It is proposed to introduce a generic indicator, namely the level of confidence in the supply chain to assess the social, economic and strategic aspects of logistics interaction. A methodological approach to assessing the level of trust in logistic cooperation was adjusted based on determining the composition of criteria that directly affect this indicator and using the expert survey of supply chain participants. The study proposes to use the confidence indicator to form and improve networks and supply chains, taking into account its value when constructing a generalized outsourcing model.

Concepts for Sustainable End Consumer Movements in City Supply Chains

2016 ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Oana Stefana Mitrea ◽  
Kyandoghere Kyamakya
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
End Users ◽  
Supply Chain Networks ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Shopping Trips ◽  
Consumer Movements

Traffic chaos, stress, congestion, environmental pollution, as well as the social problems resulting from the uncoordinated shopping trips of private citizens and companies and online deliveries represent key problems of the modern cities. In our opinion, their solving requires an intelligent coordination of the end-consumer supply-chain-related actions and movements, which should be based on mutual visibility, self-organization, and cooperation of the involved actors. This chapter presents and comments from a sustainability perspective several IT concepts that can optimize the modern ECM (end-consumer movements) related logistics. They rely on the intelligent coordination of end-consumers demands (ranging from short-term to long-term), the resulting reduction of supply-chain-related traffic, and the networking of social resources involved in such city supply chains. The focus is placed on the creation of multidimensional synergies among the involved actors on all scales and the support of the participative supply-chain networks, which are driven by end-users.

scholarly journals A Strategic Location Decision-Making Approach for Multi-Tier Supply Chain Sustainability

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 8340
Author(s):  
Petchprakai Sirilertsuwan ◽  
Sébastien Thomassey ◽  
Xianyi Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Location Decisions ◽  
Activity Based Costing ◽  
Bottom Line ◽  
Clean Manufacturing ◽  
Potential Risks

Few studies on supply location decisions focus on enhancing triple bottom line (TBL) sustainability in supply chains; they rarely employ objective quantifiable measurements which help ensure consistent and transparent decisions or reveal relationships between business and environmental trade-off criteria. Therefore, we propose a decision-making approach for objectively selecting multi-tier supply locations based on cost and carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) from manufacturing, logistics, and sustainability-assurance activities, including certificate implementation, sample-checking, living wage and social security payments, and factory visits. Existing studies and practices, logic models, activity-based costing, and feedback from an application and experts help develop the approach. The approach helps users in location decisions and long-term supply chain planning by revealing relationships among factors, TBL sustainability, and potential risks. This approach also helps users evaluate whether supplier prices are too low to create environmental and social compliance. Its application demonstrates potential and flexibility in revealing both lowest- and optimized-cost and CO2e supply chains, under various contexts and constraints, for different markets. Very low cost/CO2e supply chains have proximity between supply chain stages and clean manufacturing energy. Considering sustainability-assurance activities differentiates our approach from existing studies, as the activities significantly impact supply chain cost and CO2e in low manufacturing unit scenarios.

Sales of Ferrous and Non-Ferrous Metals in Indian Markets: Some Supply Chain Issues

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Kamal Vagrecha
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Complete Synchronization ◽  
Ferrous Metals ◽  
Business Functions ◽  
Non Ferrous Metals ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Long Term Performance ◽  
Term Performance

Supply chain management embodies the complete synchronization of the business functions in an organization. It also involves the strategy across these business functions within a particular business and across businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of improving the long-term performance of the individual companies and the supply chain as a whole<sup>7</sup>. Metal supply chains involves another peculiarity as most of the companies involved are bothered more about the sales volumes rather than giving attention to the improving their supply chains. Companies in this sector often tend to give more importance to product rather than customer aspirations. In order to stay competitive a business has to strengthen its supply chain so that it adds more and more value in its offerings to the customers. This is even more important as customers are increasingly demanding more value in the product they buy. This has led the businesses to make their supply chains flexible and responsive.

scholarly journals Securing Semiconductor Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saif Khan
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Beneficial Use ◽  
Semiconductor Chips

The countries with the greatest capacity to develop, produce and acquire state-of-the-art semiconductor chips hold key advantages in the development of emerging technologies. At present, the United States and its allies possess significant leverage over core segments of the supply chain used to produce these chips. This policy brief outlines actions the United States and its allies can take to secure that advantage in the long term and use it to promote the beneficial use of emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence.

scholarly journals Going Green Inside and Out: Corporate Environmental Responsibility and Financial Performance under Regulatory Stringency

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3850
Author(s):  
Jongjin Sohn ◽  
Jongseon Lee ◽  
Nami Kim
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Time Horizons ◽  
Internal Operations ◽  
The Relationship

While researchers have long examined the relationship between corporate environmental responsibility (CER) and financial performance, the evidence remains inconclusive. Moreover, whether sustainable supply chain management plays a role in enhancing the financial performance of focal firms has yet to be fully investigated. As firms’ investment in CER often pays off in the long-term, applying multiple time horizons, short- to long-term considerations, is needed to determine the effects of CER. This study examined the role of CER in improving financial performance based on multiple time horizons. In particular, the effects of CER on financial performance were explored in terms of internal operations and supply chains. The moderating effects of regulatory stringency on the relationship between CER and a firm’s short- or long-term financial performance were also investigated. Firms’ CER was studied using carbon data from Trucost. Carbon footprint can be an appropriate proxy for CER, as it provides information on supply partners’ environmental concerns. A unique dataset of the carbon footprint of 714 North American firms in 19 industry sectors in 2003–2010 was used. The results indicated that firms benefit from CER not only in their internal operations but also in their supply chains in both the short and long-terms. The moderating effects of regulatory stringency were significant for CER only in terms of the supply chain but not for internal operations. In industries with a high level of regulatory stringency, the positive effects of CER on short-term financial performance in the supply chain become weaker, but the same effects on long-term financial performance become stronger. By investigating the effects of two distinct carbon footprint aspects on financial performance at different time horizons, this study sheds light on the importance of CER in firms’ internal operations and supply chains.

Modeling the Design Phase of Sustainable Supply Chains

2020 ◽  
pp. 16-44
Author(s):  
Petr Fiala ◽  
Renata Majovská
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Comprehensive Model ◽  
Network Systems ◽  
Sustainable Supply Chains ◽  
Solution Methods ◽  
Equilibrium Relationships ◽  
Biform Games

The objective of supply chain sustainability is to create, protect, and grow long-term environmental, social, and economic value for all stakeholders involved in bringing products and services to market. This chapter creates a comprehensive model and solution methods for designing sustainable supply chains. Sustainable supply chains are modeled as network systems with multiple agents, which are evaluated according to multiple criteria. It is usually impossible to optimize all criteria together in a given system. Searching for a better portfolio of resources leads to reshaping of given system boundaries and better criteria values. Supply chain sustainability is also given by creating equilibrium relationships between agents. Biform games are used for searching an equilibrium in sustainable supply chains. Information sharing reduces inefficiencies and material flows, leading to less environmental pollution.

Business Excellence Measurement of Supply Chains Based on Collaboration Degree and Service Level

2011 ◽  
Vol 339 ◽  
pp. 349-352
Author(s):  
Wen Zhe Tan ◽  
Yue Ting Chai ◽  
Yi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Performance Measurement ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Service Level ◽  
Measurement Systems ◽  
Business Excellence ◽  
Performance Measurement Systems ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Operational Processes

Supply chain refers to a network of business entities that work together in efforts to acquire materials, convert these materials into products, and deliver these products to customers. The current performance measurement systems concentrate on measuring operational processes in a supply chain and fail to provide evaluation of the integrated business excellence. This paper conducts the research on the business excellence measurement of supply chains, where "collaboration degree" (CD) and "service level" (SL) are introduced to represent the supply chain's immediate and long-term yields respectively. As a result, an integrated indicator named "business excellence indicator" (BEI) is obtained to quantitatively evaluate the supply chain's overall business advantage. The rationality of our work is analyzed empirically through an application case.

scholarly journals How is Supply Chain Visibility Affecting SME's Operating in International Supply Chains?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gordon Kenneth Smart
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Positive Attribute ◽  
Shared Goals ◽  
The Way

<p>Supply chain visibility is generally seen as a positive attribute for individual supply chain partners and the supply chain as a whole. There is limited research on how increasing levels of supply chain visibility can impact individual organizations, particularly smaller entities (SME's). This paper uses an Australasian SME (Orion) as a case study to investigate how increasing visibility is affecting them and the way they operate within international supply chains.  The results indicate that increasing visibility can pose significant challenges and potentially negative consequences for smaller organizations. In addition to the extra resources required and complexity for the SME itself, diverging expectations and a lack of trust between supply partners can negatively impact on supply chain relations and long term supply chain innovation.  Within the supply chains Orion operates, increasing visibility does not appear to be leading to improvements in collaboration, risk sharing or shared goals. Viewed through the lens of Michael Porter's five forces model Orion is in a precarious environment, although there remain options for increased visibility to be used to Orion's advantage.</p>

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