The need for retail and manufacturing companies to better track inventory and raw materials, and the decreasing cost of microchips have led to enhanced interest in automatic identification systems. Retailers continue to face challenges in managing their business due to inconsistencies in data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify, analyze, assess and manage the risks issues involved in an Indian manufacturing supply chain. The paper also shows the direction to use the proposed comprehensive risk management framework in different manufacturing supply chain....

A large number of industrial manufacturers are forming alliances with partners throughout the supply chain with the focus on improving competitive position. These potential improvements may vary by the type of alliance being formed. In spite of this, little is known regarding what motivates a...

Drawing on the resource‐based view, we posit that the learning climate is an intangible, strategic resource that influences important outcomes. Data from 141 supply chain units within a multinational corporation reveal that four constructs (team‐, systems‐, learning‐, and memory...

Purpose Deep learning (DL) technologies assist manufacturers to manage their business operations. This research aims to present state-of-the-art insights on the trends and ways forward for DL applications in manufacturing operations. Design/methodology/approach Using bibliometric analysis and...

Purpose – Distribution network design (DND) has become an important strategic decision for supply chain managers with increasing competitive nature of the industry nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to propose a web-based decision support system (DSS) for fuzzy distribution network...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the information support technologies of integrated production planning control for OEM (original equipment manufacturer) driven networked manufacturing systems, and offer implications to firms for implementing networked manufacturing....

Purpose Despite the availability of several published reviews on the adoption of blockchain (BC) in supply chain (SC), at present, the literature lacks a comprehensive review incorporating the antecedents and consequences of BC adoption. Moreover, the complex adoption of BC in SC, explained with...