Table of contents
On uncertainty in supply chain risk management
Jyri Vilko, Paavo Ritala, Jan EdelmannThe concept of uncertainty is a relevant yet little understood area within supply chain risk management. Risk is often associated with uncertainty, but in reality uncertainty is a…
Remanufacturing in Asia: location choice and outsourcing
Qing Lu, Mark Goh, Miti Garg, Robert De SouzaRemanufacturing is a process whereby value from old products is recovered by replacing and recovering used components to bring such products to a new or like-new state. Today…
Reducing national freight logistics costs risk in a high-oil-price environment : A South African case study
Jan Havenga, Zane SimpsonSouth Africa's logistics cost measurement was expanded to include externality costs, and scenarios based on the key exogenous risks were developed to inform mitigation strategies…
Examining CO2e reduction within the German logistics sector
Jens Tacken, Vasco Sanchez Rodrigues, Robert MasonThe purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the measures outlined in frameworks for guiding CO2e emissions reduction in road freight transport in the academic…
Relationships between quality of information sharing and supply chain food quality in the Australian beef processing industry
Ming Juan Ding, Ferry Jie, Kevin A. Parton, Margaret J. Matanda– The purpose of this paper is to analyze supply chain practices, and supply chain food quality performance indicator in the Australian beef processing industry.
Inventory holding costs measurement: a multi-case study
Anna Azzi, Daria Battini, Maurizio Faccio, Alessandro Persona, Fabio SgarbossaLogisticians in the worldwide industry are frequently faced with the problem of measuring the total cost of holding inventories with simple and easy-to-use methodologies. The…
Machine scheduling with outsourcing : Coping with supply chain uncertainty with a second supplying source
Feng Liu, Jian-Jun Wang, Haozhe Chen, De-Li YangThe purpose of this paper is to study the use of outsourcing as a mechanism to cope with supply chain uncertainty, more specifically, how to deal with sudden arrival of higher…
The road to supply chain agility: an RBV perspective on the role of logistics capabilities
David M. Gligor, Mary HolcombThe concept of supply chain agility (SCA) has been identified as one of the most important issues in supply chain management literature. However, despite the popularity of the…
A longitudinal view of supply chain education : Assessing the challenge of retaining relevance in today's dynamic marketplace
Stanley E. Fawcett, Stephen M. RutnerThe logistics and supply chain management discipline has evolved dramatically over the past generation. The rapid pace of change has challenged education providers – e.g.…
Examining the role of stakeholder pressure and knowledge management on supply chain risk and demand responsiveness
David E. Cantor, Jennifer Blackhurst, Mengyang Pan, Mike CrumThe purpose of this paper is to contribute to the supply chain risk management literature by examining how stakeholders place pressure on the firm to engage in risk management…
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