Risk management in humanitarian supply chain based on FMEA and grey relational analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the humanitarian supply chain management (HSCM) necessary for delivering emergency items during the disaster. The combined effects of climate change and the pandemic uncover the vulnerabilities of humanitarian supply chain operations and highlight the importance of risk management. This study aimed to identify priority risk factors and proposed mitigating risk strategies of a local government that is at the forefront of relief operations. It used Grey Relational Analysis (GRA) method to validate the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) approach in identifying priority issues relating to the supply chain risks. This paper reveals that the results of FMEA and GRA are almost similar.     

Supply chain risk management in India – practical insights

This paper reviews the supply chain risk management (SCRM) literature to identify as well as to discuss and elaborate on the impact and origin of major supply chain risk factors in an Indian context. Through a combination of existing literature and a survey instrument, we identify major SCRM issues including underlying supply chain risks and thereafter identify gaps, issues and opportunities for further research. SCRM has become a popular research topic, in part owing to increased globalisation of business. Moreover competitive factors such as shorter product life cycles, technological innovations and changing government policies have brought this topic more sharply into focus. We carried out a survey among Indian supply chain professionals, based on supply chain risk constructs developed from a literature review. Statistical analysis utilised exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses to determine the major risk factors in the Indian supply chain sector. We found a range of supply chain risks prevalent in Indian supply chains, classified here as cultural, operational, infrastructure, economic, forecasting and supplier-related risks. However, for a variety of reasons and as discussed in the paper, the implications can vary considerably. Based on the findings we provide a future SCRM research agenda from an Indian perspective. As international supply chains increasingly have Indian partners and domestic firms within India seek to be globally competitive, the risks need to be better understood. This is the first detailed study on SCRM practices in an Indian context.     

供应链质量管理及其对绩效的影响：文献综述

基于供应链的质量管理已经成为企业竞争优势的重要来源,传统的质量管理是单个企业的视角,缺乏供应链视角的、系统的关注.国内外学者对供应链质量管理进行了大量研究,文章采用文献综述的方法,对供应链质量管理的内涵及构成要素、供应链质量管理与绩效的关系相关文献进行梳理,探究供应链质量管理机理,提出进一步研究的展望.     

Exploring the Framework Development Status for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management: A Systematic Literature Synthesis and Future Research Directions

The need to integrate environmental and social aspects into the supply chain has created a debate amongst academicians and researchers on two topics: sustainability and the supply chain. A large number of journals and special volumes are publishing research that carries out a case study or survey, develops a mathematical model or builds a conceptual model/framework on sustainable supply chain management (SSCM). However, classified analysis of articles that develop a framework on SSCM has not been carried out by any researcher. The study thus aims to review SSCM framework articles to identify the major contributions and gaps. A total of 92 framework articles on SSCM from the sample of 349 over a period of 19 years (1998–2016) are structurally analyzed to meet the objectives. The selected literature is categorized by novel or adapted framework, source of framework, framework verification, method used for framework verification and identifying the constructs/elements that build the structural framework. Analyzing the literature sample using these categories reveals that framework development in the context of SSCM is still an area with ample future opportunities. The findings of the study are especially interesting for academicians and practitioners to investigate the critical gaps in the field of sustainable supply chain management frameworks (SSCMFs). Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

Reshaping healthcare supply chain using chain-of-things technology and key lessons experienced from COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 (Corona virus disease 2019) pandemic continues to slash through the entire humanity on the earth causing an international health crisis and financial uncertainty. The pandemic has formed a colossal disruption in supply chain networks. It has caused piling higher mortality in patients with comorbidities and generated a surging demand for critical care equipment, vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and cutting-edge technologies. Personal protective equipment, masks, ventilators, testing kits, and even commodities required for daily care have been scarce as lockdown and social distancing guidelines have kicked in. Amidst COVID-19, implementing and executing key processes of the healthcare supply chain (HSC) in a secured, trusted, effective, universally manageable, and the traceable way is perplexing owing to the fragile nature of the HSC, which is susceptible to redundant efforts and systemic risks that can lead to adverse impacts on consumer health and safety. Though the crisis shone a harsh light on the cracks and weaknesses of the HSC, it brings some significant insights into how HSC can be made more resilient and how healthcare industries figure out solutions to mitigate disruptions. While there are innumerable experiences learned from the disruption of this crisis, in this paper, five important areas to analyze the most vital and immediate HSC enhancements including building a resilient supply chain, thinking localization, implementing reliable reverse logistics, breaking down extant silos to achieve end-to-end visibility, and redesigning HSC using digitalization are emphasized. This work identifies important features related to CoT and HSC. Also, this study links these lessons to a potential solution through Chain of Things (CoT) technology. CoT technology provides a better way to monitor HSC products by integrating the Internet of Things (IoT) with blockchain networks. However, such an integrated solution should not only focus on the required features and aspects but also on the correlation among different features. The major objective of this study is to reveal the influence path of CoT on smart HSC development. Hence, this study exploits (i) fuzzy set theory to eliminate redundant and unrelated features; (ii) the Decision-Making and Experimental Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) method to handle the intricate correlation among different features. This fuzzy-DEMATEL (F-DEMATEL) model attempts to direct CoT technology towards smart HSC by identifying the most influencing factors and investors are recommended to contribute to the development of application systems. This work also demonstrates how CoT can act a vital role in handling the HSC issues triggered by the pandemic now and in the post-COVID-19 world. Also, this work proposes different CoT design patterns for increasing opportunities in the HSC network and applied them as imperative solutions for major challenges related to traditional HSC networks.     

Core issues in sustainable supply chain management – a Delphi study

Sustainable supply chain management has emerged as a growing topic, receiving increasing interest in the sustainability and supply chain management area. So far, the field is dominated by either case or survey based research. Few attempts have been made to take a broader look at the overarching issues, which form core topics of sustainable supply chain management. This paper presents the findings from a Delphi study where experts were asked to contribute their opinion. The Delphi study allows an aggregation of these opinions and extracts underlying topics in a structured manner. Four major topics were identified, which are (1) pressures and incentives for sustainable supply chain management, (2) identifying and measuring impacts on sustainable supply chain management, (3) supplier management (particularly addressing issues at the supplier–buyer interface) and (4) supply chain management (dealing with issues across all companies involved in the supply chain). The research presented contributes to substantiating and consolidating the field of sustainable supply chain management. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment.     

网状供应链环境下企业的竞争与合作

目前，我国学术界对供应链的研究多侧重于实证方面，对供应链管理理论的研究则略显薄弱，尤其是对网状供应链运行效率基础(节点企业的竞争与合作问题）的研究更加不足。本文在对企业间关系正确认识的基础上，注重论述处于现代网状供应链环境下．企业应如何应对企业间的竞争和合作。     

Evaluation of factors affecting strategic supply chain network design

The design of a supply chain network lies at the core of supply chain management, and it is affected by many variables corresponding to several factor groups. This study evaluated the importance of such influencing factors, namely, political and social characteristics, supply characteristics, product characteristics, demand characteristics, and service requirements, for evaluating strategic location alternatives in a supply chain system. A structural equation modelling approach was employed to analyse the effects of these factors. Results indicated that supply characteristics, product characteristics, demand characteristics, and service requirements positively affect strategic supply chain network design. The influence of the political and social factor group on strategic location alternatives was not supported in this study. Theoretical and managerial implications of the findings are discussed and potential research directions are proposed.     

Purchasing's contribution to supply chain emission reduction

Does environmental purchasing and supplier management (EPSM) help to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the supply chain and, thereby, mitigate climate change? And, if so, under which conditions? Taking these two questions as a starting point, we hypothesize that heightened environmental protection efforts targeting the upstream value chain should lead to a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the buying companies' supply chain. We continue to delineate three contingency factors that might affect the relationship between EPSM and supply chain GHG emissions: The power of the buying firm over supply chain partners, prior experience in EPSM, and materiality of environmental supply chain management in a certain industry. We collect longitudinal data from 260 companies and analyze them using hybrid panel data analysis. We find that the increase of EPSM leads to a significant reduction of the GHG emission intensity of buying firms’ supply chains and that this reduction is stronger for companies operating in industries where emission management is more material.     

Balancing priorities: Decision-making in sustainable supply chain management

The need for environmental protection and increasing demands for natural resources are forcing companies to reconsider their business models and restructure their supply chain operations. Scholars and proactive companies have begun to create more sustainable supply chains. What has not been fully addressed is how organizations deal with short-term pressures to remain economically viable while implementing these newly modeled supply chains. In this study, we use theory-building through case studies to answer the question: how do organizations balance short-term profitability and long-term environmental sustainability when making supply chain decisions under conditions of uncertainty? We present five sets of propositions that explain how exemplars in green supply chain management make decisions and balance short and long term objectives. We also identify four environmental postures that help explain the decisions organizations make when dealing with strategic trade-offs among the economic, environmental and social elements of the triple-bottom-line.     

The moderating role of relational bonding in green supply chain practices and performance

Previous research has paid attention to the effect of green supply chain practices on green innovation performance. However, little has been done to examine the substantive role of relational bonding in green supply chain management context. This study attempts to identify relational bonding as a potential moderator and examines the relationships between green supply chain practices, relational bonding, and green innovation performance. The results indicate that green supply chain practices and relational bonding are positively related to green innovation performance. Relational bonding moderates the relationship between green supply chain practices and green innovation performance. This study makes a contribution by integrating relationship marketing literature and green management literature. This study also provides practical implication for the essential role of relational bonding in green supply chain management.     

供应链合作利益协调问题研究

公平、公正、合理的利润分配方案不仅有利于维护供应链的稳定,还可以刺激企业更加努力融入供应链中,提高供应链的竞争力。但是目前对于供应链利润分配过程的研究,多局限于契约机制或者博弈论方面。从供应链合作利益分配角度出发,利用供应链管理、博弈论和委托代理机制理论,建立起了契约机制和转移支付相结合的二次利益分配机制,使得整个供应链合作利益分配既满足效率的要求,又能符合公平的原则。     

供应链协同管理研究初探

供应链协同管理作为供应链发展的一种全新模式,已经成为供应链管理领域研究的热点问题,文中在对供应链协同管理的概念的分析基础上,从战略协同、策略协同和技术协同三个层次对供应链协同管理的研究现状进行综述,并分析了供应链管理协同的内在动因．提出了供应链协同管理发展的趋势。     

我国供应链合作伙伴竞合关系研究综述

供应链合作伙伴竞合关系是供应链管理研究的热点问题之一。引起国内外学者的普遍关注。文章首先介绍了竞合的概念。然后从研究内容、研究方法、有效竞合结论等三个方面对我国供应链合作伙伴竞合关系进行了总结,并分析了我国目前供应链竞合关系研究中现存的问题,最后指出了我国供应链竞合关系未来研究的方向与重点。     

The strategies of supply chain risk management – a synthesis and classification

This paper conducts an in-depth systematic literature review of 86 peer-reviewed academic journal articles on supply chain risk management (SCRM) strategies from 2000 to mid-2015. The findings indicate a variety of dispersed supply chain risk (SCR) mitigating strategies and suggest a more homogeneous use of terminology. Moreover, the analysis also reveals insufficient evidence for the effect of SCRM on performance. The current study groups and synthesises the various SCRM strategies into proactive and reactive approaches for the ante and the post disruption state and classifies them according to the different supply chain types. Altogether the findings provide essential practical and theoretical contributions to strategic responses to adverse incidents by creating a unique conceptual framework of SCRM strategies and providing direction towards promising areas of research.     

供应链排序问题模式研究

供应链协同是供应链管理中的重要问题,供应链上不同阶段的决策者应当如何安排产品的生产、配送顺序,近年来有研究将经典生产排序理论引入供应链管理中,针对上述协同问题提出供应链排序研究模型,但还没有形成统一的框架和定义,本文将介绍这一领域的研究现状和发展前景.     

供应链绩效评价研究现状及展望

供应链绩效评价是供应链管理与控制的基础。文章在全面回顾现阶段研究的基础上,从供应链绩效评价框架与指标、系统设计规则研究、评价结果分析与系统学习、评价体系的影响因素几个方面对文献进行了梳理,并指出在将来的研究中需要关注的问题。     

基于Map Info的SCOR模型支持系统的研究

SCOR模型是标准的供应链流程参考模型,它使企业问能够准确地交流供应链问题,客观地评测其性能,确定性能改进的目标。并影响今后供应链管理软件的开发。而SCOR模型的实施是非常重要的环节。在模型的实施中加入GIS技术,使供应链的部分信息图形化、直观化,并与企业ERP系统实现数据交互,可以大大扩展SCOR模型的功能。本文简介了SCOR模型。介绍了基于MapInfo地理信息平台的SCOR模型支持系统的相关研究及应用实现,为SCOR模型的改进和完善做了一次很好的尝试。     

石油企业实施绿色供应链管理的障碍及对策研究

随着经济全球化和中国加入WTO,绿色供应链管理已逐步成为石油企业全面提升国际竞争力的重要战略,绿色供应链管理在中国还处于起步阶段,缺乏相应的研究以指导实践。在简要回顾国内外绿色供应链管理研究发展现状的基础上,结合现阶段石油企业的实际情况,分析了石油企业实施绿色供应链管理的障碍,并提出了相应的对策,从而为石油企业实施绿色供应链管理的实践提供参考。     

Towards an understanding of supply chain quality management

In this paper, we define supply chain quality management (SCQM) to operationalize and understand the effect of increased emphasis on supply chain management on the practice of quality management. We review current research in quality management and identify common themes found in the literature. Key quality management content variables identified are customer focus, quality practices, supplier relations, leadership, HR practices, business results, and safety. We use these variables to propose areas for future research in the field of supply chain quality management.