Since the onset of Supply chain management has gained maximum recognition, with many countries elevating supply chain levels at the strategic level. This article selects AH Company’s supply chain network as the research object, analyzes the mai...
Finding reliable partners is the key to supply chain management. However, the symmetrical evaluation of enterprise trust is complex, so the decision-makers must understand its quantitative and qualitative characteristics in order to realize a reasona...
Against the backdrop of globalization, the complexity of supply chains has been increasing, making supply chain resilience a critical factor in ensuring the stable operation of enterprises, national economies, and international trade. This paper adop...
With the improvement of social production efficiency and the enhancement of the supply chain system, the traditional linear supply chain model is gradually evolving into a more complex and dynamic industrial chain network. This article uses complex n...
A continuous increase in the world population and reduction in quantity and quality of resources is putting enormous pressure on nations to ensure a balance between food demand and supply. The same is highlighted at number two in the United Nations&r...
24 April 2019
Based on Stackelberg’s master–slave game theory and green index decision-making conditions, this paper studies the benefit coordination of a supply chain network composed of a business flow network and logistics network, discusses the dec...
Supply chains (SC) aim to provide products to the final customer at a certain service level. However, unforeseen events occur that impede supply chain objectives. SC Risk has been studied in the literature, providing frameworks and methodologies to m...
A stochastic cold chain (SCC) is a common supply chain in real life that emphasizes the need for commodities to arrive fresh within time constraints. In previous research on supply chains, the time factor was regarded as a fixed number. However, the...
The rapid advancement of blockchain technology has introduced a new paradigm for constructing trusted digital economic infrastructure. However, its large-scale adoption remains constrained by dual challenges: on-chain and off-chain communication effi...
With the rapid development and wide application of cloud computing, security protection in cloud environment has become an urgent problem to be solved. However, traditional security service equipment is closely coupled with the network topology, so i...
Based on the resource orchestration theory, this study built a research model to understand the effect of supply chain network insight and supply chain integration on enterprise performance. We also involved the contingency theory to investigate the...
Supply Chain Management (SCM) has received considerable attention from the industrial community in recent decades. SCM continues to be an interesting and relevant research topic in many business areas such as revealing supply chain integration benefi...
The purpose of this paper is to examine how supply chain ambidexterity facilitates assistance for green supply chain management and to build on previous work by evaluating how networking capability helps to explain the impact of supply chain ambidext...
The green supply chain (GSC) can effectively reduce the waste of resources and avoid environmental pollution. For a closed-loop supply chain network consisting of multiple manufacturers, multiple retailers, and multiple consumer and recycling markets...
The world is facing economic, as well as social, crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Implementing sustainable practices is one of the possible ways to address these issues. Adopting circular oriented techniques throughout the supply chain not only g...
The synchronization of the new energy vehicle (NEV) supply chain network is crucial for enhancing industrial integration, building intelligent supply chain systems, and promoting sustainable development. This study proposes a novel synchronization mo...
To improve integration and achieve better coal industry materials and energy balance, integrated collaborative supply chains (SCs) are needed. However, as single-core SC models are not suitable for complex coal industry systems, a multicore, correlat...
This paper discusses the impact of network externalities on the green strategies of enterprises at each node of the supply chain. The existing related research mainly addresses the influence of factors such as government regulation, consumer behavior...
Globalization has contributed to the increasing complexity of supply chain structures. In this regard, precise demand forecasting for the intricate supply chain holds paramount importance in effective supply chain management. Traditional statistical...
Researchers have defined resilient supply chain management in various ways and have analyzed and explained it using many managerial theories. Thus, identifying trends in existing studies could serve as a foundation for future supply chain resilience...
Payment channels and off-chain transactions are used to address blockchain scalability. Those mechanisms rely on the blockchain proper, as the resolution mechanism. They allow for high transaction throughput due to the pure peer-to-peer nature of the...
3 February 2021
The customer-oriented approach is actively developing within the global trend of the modern industrial revolution that is Industry 4.0. The focus on customer interests has led to cooperation and integration in supply chains, improving their efficienc...
As agriculture and industry exploit more than 90% of the global freshwater resources, water overuse and degradation have emerged as critical socio-environmental challenges for both nations and corporations. In this context, the water footprint concep...
Studies that have examined the digital transformation’s association with supply chains have been actively conducted for over 10 years, and studies on digital supply chain management have been increasing. However, there is a lack of consensus on the d...
A supply chain disruption is an unanticipated event that disrupts the flow of materials in a supply chain. Any given supply chain disruption could have a significant negative impact on the entire supply chain. Supply chain network designs usually con...
With the rapid development of information and communication technology, data empowerment has become an important way for platform service supply chain (PSSC) members to obtain a competitive advantage. Based on the three-level PSSC network structure c...
A service function chain (SFC) is an ordered virtual network function (VNF) chain for processing traffic flows to deliver end-to-end network services in a virtual networking environment. A challenging problem for an SFC in this context is to determin...
1 July 2025
The advent of digital technology has transformed traditional service management approaches and offers new opportunities for the supply chain network to resist these interruptions. However, current research on how digital service innovation directly a...
Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are key drivers for resource integration and the operational efficiency of enterprises. Companies that hold central positions within supply chains may leverage their strategic location to reduce information asymmet...
The supply chain network is important for manufacturing enterprises to obtain innovation resources and information; hence, their network location significantly influences innovation performance. The existing research has focused on the factors and th...
The structure of the network among firms participating in global value chains is an important factor in understanding the changes in China’s carbon emissions. This paper focuses on the interdependence between firms and the interconnected networ...
Supply chains can be vulnerable to sudden disruptions, especially when it emphasizes efficient operation. In this regard, supply chain resilience (SCR) has received attention recently to cope with disruptions and improve competitiveness. This paper p...
In response to the ever-increasing pursuit of competitiveness among organizations in today’s global business landscape, the subject of supply chain management has become a vital domain encompassing a wide range of sectors and industries across...
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of network characteristics on supply chain network resilience (SCNR) when risk propagation occurs in supply chain networks (SCNs). The network characteristics we study here (e.g., clustering coeffici...
Green supply chain management (GSCM) has emerged as an important issue to lessen the impact of supply chain activities on the natural environment, as well as reduce waste and achieve sustainable growth of a company. To understand the effectiveness of...
Supply chain network design and inventory management are both significant for improving the core competitiveness of enterprises. This study investigates the joint optimization problem of facility locations and inventory for assembly manufacturing ent...
Financial stocks in the industry chain interact notably because of close economic and technical relationships. Some participants pay particular attention to one industry chain and are concerned with different investment horizons. The motivation for t...
In the context of multiple overlapping uncertainties, upstream disruptions in electric vehicle supply chain networks are becoming increasingly frequent. Given the dynamic and sudden nature of disruption risks, this paper introduces a stochastic stopp...
The problem of designing a multi-product, multi-period green supply chain network under uncertainties in carbon price and customer demand is studied in this paper. The purpose of this study is to develop a robust green supply chain network design mod...
Structural network pruning is an effective way to reduce network size for deploying deep networks to resource-constrained devices. Existing methods mainly employ knowledge distillation from the last layer of network to guide pruning of the whole netw...
Background: Supply chains, characterized by complexity and sensitivity, require continuous mapping to address challenges, particularly disruptions like the COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, Social Network Analysis (SNA) has proven valuable in analy...
In this paper, a sustainable closed-loop supply chain problem is modelled in conditions of uncertainty. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, the designed supply chain network seeks to deliver medical equipment to hospitals on time within a defined...
Nowadays, Supply Chain Networks (SCNs) must respond to economic, environmental, social, and uncertain considerations. Thus, sustainable and resilience criteria need to be incorporated as key criteria into the Supply Chain Network Design (SCND). This...
Molecular communications provide an attractive opportunity to precisely regulate biological signaling in nano-medicine applications of body area networks. In this paper, we utilize molecular communication tools to interpret how neural signals are gen...
Background: Supply chain networks (SCNs) have been interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving them open to financial losses. SCs have been impacted by the pandemic, necessitating the adoption of sustainable practices and dynamic capacities to ensu...
This paper presents a method to model and optimize the supply chain processes for floating offshore wind turbines using a network model based on Generalized Multi-Commodity Network Flows (GMCNF). The proposed method represents production bases, base...
In the context of Western China’s unique geography, recurrent landslide disasters pose substantial threats to both resident safety and economic stability. The escalating frequency of these incidents emphasizes the critical need for innovative d...
This research aims to develop a mathematical model and a solution approach for jointly optimizing a global inventory service level and order sizes for a single-commodity supply chain network with multiple warehouses or distribution centers. The latte...
10 September 2019
Severe natural disasters and related secondary disasters are a huge menace to society. Currently, it is difficult to identify risk formation mechanisms and quantitatively evaluate the risks associated with disaster chains; thus, there is a need to fu...
In this study, we developed a novel one-pot synthesis method to fabricate well-defined single-chain polymeric nanoparticles (SCNPs) integrated with interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) systems. The synthesis process involved an initial intramolecul...
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