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Supply Chain Risk Management
Supply chain risk management is an integral function of the supply network. It faces unpredictable challenges due to nations’ economic policies and globalization, which have raised uncertainty and challenges for supply chain organizations. These significantly affect the financial performance of the organizations and the economy of a nation. 
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  • 18 Jan 2021
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Supply Chain Resilience on SMEs’ Performance
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a critical role in every economy, and limited studies have highlighted the significance of resilience in the firms. To determine the impact of supply chain resilience on SMEs’ performance in Saudi Arabia based on three dimensions of resilience, namely agility, robustness, and flexibility.
  • 630
  • 05 Aug 2022
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Supply Chain Resilience
Supply chain resilience refers to the ability of a supply chain to cope with the risk of supply chain disruption and quickly return to its original performance after a disruption. For firms, supply chain resilience can be improved by adopting redundancy, flexibility, visibility, collaboration, backup suppliers, safety stocks, etc.
  • 464
  • 12 Jul 2022
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Supply Chain Management in Pandemics
Pandemics cause chaotic situations in supply chains (SC) around the globe, which can lead towards survivability challenges. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented humanitarian crisis that has severely affected global business dynamics. Similar vulnerabilities have been caused by other outbreaks in the past. In these terms, prevention strategies against propagating disruptions require vigilant goal conceptualization and roadmaps. In this respect, there is a need to explore supply chain operation management strategies to overcome the challenges that emerge due to COVID-19-like situations. 
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  • 16 Mar 2021
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Supply Chain Management Contract Selection
The oil and gas industry plays a significant role in the economies of many countries today. Due to various factors, including oil price fluctuations, wars, sanctions, and many other instances, selling and supplying these products at low prices is necessary. As a result, the global economy may suffer as well. Supply chain management is one way to reduce the prices of these products.
  • 342
  • 21 Sep 2022
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Supply Chain Leadership and Sustainable Innovation
The concept of leadership is typically  defined by the behaviour, capabilities, and characters of leaders. It revolves around group dynamics influenced by social factors and centers on shared goals, intentions, visions, or objectives. Supply chain leadership (SCL) contributes to the enhancement of functioning implementation, consumer-supplier relationships, and sustainability in innovation. SCL is therefore identified as a potentially significant concept due to its influence on sustainable innovation and competitiveness, but yet to emerge as a distinct field of scholarly research.
  • 188
  • 25 Mar 2024
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Supply Chain Firms in the Fertilizer Market
The improvement of supply chain firms in the fertilizer sector through the increase of their stock market price can be impacted by various factors in the global economic landscape. The potential utilization of big data extracted from the cryptocurrency market is focused, decentralized finance applications, and blockchain technology to model and predict the trajectory of the stock market price of supply chain firms in the fertilizer sector.
  • 295
  • 24 Jul 2023
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Supply Chain Engineering
Supply Chain Engineering (SCE) describes desired efficiency and effectiveness. The most essential ingredient of SCE is its integral view embodying • Local Customization • Engineering • Information Technology The engineering character is not only visible in the SCE’s content but also in its name. As SCE is still a very young method only few standard works have been published so far; however, Kukkuk C, (Snr) in his opening address to the South African mining industry in 2015, sites "SEC should be regarded as an upstream practice and should not be a silo business unit, it may well be integrated with other key disciplines that form part of the 'value chain' some principles we apply are interactive sessions for front end planning, industry lessons learned, lean optimization strategies and updated ERP/MRP solutions" The following definition therefore mainly refers to the standard work, “Supply Chain Engineering – methods of integrated logistics planning”, published in July 2010 by Dr. Joachim Miebach and Dominik Bühring. Herein SCE is defined as an independent and overall method to design supply chains.
  • 280
  • 10 Nov 2022
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Supply Chain Concentration and Corporate Environmental Responsibility
With the recent intensification of environmental problems such as the depletion of natural resources, air pollution, water pollution and shortage, and soil erosion, the balance between environmental protection and economic development has attracted worldwide attention, and both green economy and sustainable development have gradually become the future economic development directions of all countries in the world. The COVID-19 virus spread throughout the world since its discovery in late 2019. Many experts show that poor ecological environment is an important factor that affects the generation and spread of virus and the increasing mortality rates, hence stressing the importance and urgency of environmental protection. As micro-entities of national economic operation, enterprises are also subjects of natural resource consumption and ecological pollution and have an undeniable responsibility toward environmental protection. Improving the ecological environment should ultimately be integrated into the corporate environmental responsibility (CER) of firms.
  • 586
  • 27 Jan 2022
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Supply Chain Carbon Emissions Reduction
While carbon emissions reduction brings about environmental benefits, it can also create financial pressure on many manufacturing enterprises. Many manufacturing enterprises have begun to pledge their own carbon emissions right quotas for financing and the funds from this financing are being used to implement energy savings and emissions reduction strategies. Methods for reducing the carbon emissions that are produced in supply chains and ensuring the sustainability of society have attracted the attention of the world. In fact, to decrease carbon emissions, countries have formulated many policies that are related to carbon emissions reduction. 
  • 291
  • 28 Sep 2022
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