In recent days, the industrial sector is characterised by saturated worldwide target markets and high expectations of the consumers. This new context subjects the company to a great deal of pressure. Therefore, companies try to optimise their supply chains in order to improve their...

Logistics and supply chain management play an important role in Thailand industry. We believed that logistics and supply chain management could be a means to improve competitive performance in service sector. This paper diagnoses the hospital's internal supply chain and logistics system in...

Purpose – This paper aims to describe how research literature and logistics practitioners respectively describe the link between logistics and corporate social responsibility, focusing on the link between strategic logistics change (location, capacity and number of facilities as well as the...

Supply chain management (SCM) is becoming critical as firms recognize that competition is shifting from company versus company to supply chain versus supply chain. In the present competitive scenario, the fierce competition has driven most companies to seek means of enhancing performance beyond...

Channel coordination and, more generally, coordination of activities between interdependent economic agents is even more important today than when the paper was published more than 20 years ago. One reason is the trend toward globalization and outsourcing caused, in part, by the development of...

Existing literature discusses a number of possible pioneering cost advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we empirically test three different sources of long-term pioneering cost advantage—, and —and three different sources of pioneering cost disadvantage—, , and . We disentangle...

La thématique du risque n'est pas nouvelle en gestion, mais elle est récente et encore peu étudiée en Supply Chain Management ; les premiers travaux portant explicitement sur ce thème datent de 2003. Après une analyse de la littérature sur ce thème, nous considérerons le Supply Chain...

This paper intends to take up an overview of gaps existing in Advanced Planning Scheduling system (APS). Even if APS system provide a number of solution approaches for several practical problems (inventory and global costs reduction, customer service level increase, pertinent decision making),...

Face à un environnement de plus en plus complexe et turbulent, des publications relativement onvergentes tendent à indiquer que l'efficacité d'une chaîne logistique globale se mesure à l'aune de son niveau de réactivité, de reconfiguration rapide des processus, d'élimination des...

Cet article propose un cadre conceptuel à la notion d'apprentissage interorganisationnel et s'intéresse tout particulièrement à sa mise en œuvre dans le cadre des chaînes logistiques globales (ou supply chains). Ce cadre est utilisé pour synthétiser le résultat d'une première étude...