The paper presents the role and the importance of logistics for products and services in order to obtain the competitive advantage. After a short presentation of logistics evolution, we move on to defining the logistics concept, respectively integrated logistics. The analysis of the logistics...

The purpose of this study is to understand the drivers of social responsibility in purchasing (PSR). This study replicated and extended the range of empirical application of the model developed by Carter and Jennings (Journal of Business Logistics <Emphasis Type="Bold">25(1), 145–186, 2004). Consequently, the...</emphasis>

Supply Chain Execution (SCE) software solutions represent an attractive market for both application providers and users. The paper refers to the characteristics of the SCE market and focuses on the warehouse management systems (WMS). The main features and functions of the WMS are addressed. The...

Trading in commodity derivatives on exchange platforms is an instrument to achieveprice discovery, better price risk management, besides helping macro-economy withbetter resource allocation. Since the inception (2003) of national online trading onmulti-commodity exchange platforms, the trade...

This paper analyses the organisation of the post-harvest Nile perch supply chain centred on Lake Victoria in East Africa to test the practical relevance of the market-driven supply chain thesis proposed by Folkerts and Koehorst (1998). It finds that while international consumer demand,...

This paper identifies a new way of sugar utilization for food industry supplying: the production of specific ingredients. It analyzes the occurrence of association among sugar mills and sugar products manufacturers in the context of productive deregulation and market globalization in the second...

In this paper, we explore the merging of supply chains between media and telecommunications as an example of business application of industry convergence. The goal of this study is to provide managerial insight into the various facets of convergence of supply chains so that companies can...

In a decentralized supply chain, double marginalization is an important source of inefficiency. We suggest in this paper a simple mechanism to reduce it that uses a wholesale price contract and renegotiation. Our mechanism only requires repeated interaction, and rational behavior from the...