In the chemical industry, shortened product life cycles and greater differentiation of customer demand increase …

supply chains. Prominent challenges are the integration of the environmental, the economic, and the social dimension of … sustainability assessments of global supply chains. The production and transportation activities in the supply chain and the … comparison of alternative supply chain configurations with the spatially differentiated approach reveals that the assessment …

for the environmental and human rights impacts of their supply chains. The institutionalization of the international due … consequences for the possibilities to enhance corporate accountability in global supply chains. …

The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak shows that pandemics and epidemics can seriously wreak havoc on supply chains (SC …) around the globe. Humanitarian logistics literature has extensively studied epidemic impacts; however, there exists a … analysis of the impacts of epidemic outbreaks on SCs guided by a structured literature review that collated a unique set of …

Imbalances in bargaining position between companies in the supply chains lead to asymmetrical relationships. While a … large body of literature has addressed asymmetrical relationships in the supply chain, not much work has been exploring the …, rescheduling frequency, and information sharing. The study suggests that (1). Most relationships in supply chains are asymmetric. A …

organising supply-chain eco-innovation. Livestock farming affects environmental sustainability in a number of ways and various … initiatives aim to address these challenges. Through a 'fine-grained' analysis, focused on the organisational diversity of supply …-chains within a single product group, we analyse how supply-chain structure conditions eco-innovative activity initiated by large …

nature, and the research instruments include interviews and survey through questionnaires with players in the spice supply … chain. The study is to track the spice routes by the retailers for assessing the current state of the supply chain …

The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for … intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable … when demand volatility is high. It also provides conditions under which the intermediary handling inventory is located in …