...Satbir Singh; Vivek Agrawal; R.P. Mohanty Purpose The purpose of this research paper is to study the significant enablers for a competitive supply chain and analyze the relationships among them by using multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) techniques. The supply chain (SC) managers will get...

...Varthini Rajagopal; Prasanna Venkatesan Shanmugam; Ratnapratik Nandre Purpose Reputation risk onsets in focal firm whenever any entity of its supply chain (SC) faces risk-crisis event. A framework for modeling and predicting holistic SC reputation risk is proposed by integrating operational risk...

...Neha Choudhary; Anish Kumar; Varun Sharma; Pradeep Kumar Purpose Additive manufacturing (AM) is expected to significantly transform the operations in manufacturing sector. It is also proposed to have optimistic applications in the medical supply chains (SC). However, its adoption in medical sector...

... and probabilistic demand for a two-echelon supply chain. The production process is imperfect and the imperfect quality items are removed from the lot size. The demand rate of the inventory system is random and follows an exponential probability density function and the demand of the retailers is depending...

...Arun Jose; PrasannaVenkatesan Shanmugam Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the significant supply chain issues in the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) food industry. The objectives are to identify the major themes and the dynamic evolution of SME food supply chain (FSC...

... and with their customers in accordance with their strategies, promoting a greater cooperative behaviour throughout the supply chain. Originality/value SMEs’ customers and suppliers are their main sources of information compared to large firms, which have greater resources to search for and acquire information...

...Ankur Kashyap; Rajat Agrawal Purpose In the era of Industry 4.0, knowledge component plays a vital role in manufacturing. For tacking the new complexities of the business, a concept of knowledge supply chain (KSC) is being proposed, which takes into account of knowledge component. Higher education...

...Sudeep Kumar Pradhan; Srikanta Routroy 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...

...Sameer Prasad; Jasmine Tata; Xuguang Guo Purpose The purpose of this research is to examine how social capital derived through supply chain networks can help small businesses survive in times of a recession. Design/methodology/approach A theoretical framework with the respective propositions...

... across the enterprise. Automatic identification technologies try to overcome this by allowing machines to identify objects and capture information, providing organizations with much greater degrees of control and flexibility in managing goods as they move through the supply chain. The aim of most auto‐ID...