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Taxes in Cross-Border Supply Chain Modeling
The tax policies in different sovereigns bring new challenges to the operators of CBSC, especially for the SMEs with weak capital risk resistance. The resulting tax-related costs will significantly affect the firms’performance and consumers' utility. Therefore, the interface between CBSC operations and tax planning has aroused broad concern from the industry.
  • 413
  • 17 Jan 2022
Topic Review
Sustainable Performance through Digital-Supply-Chains in Industry 4.0 Era
Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic disruption, industry 4.0 technologies (I4TEs) and digital supply chains (DSCs) are reinforcing businesses to gain economic stability and agility to enrich their sustainable performance 
  • 356
  • 24 Apr 2023
Topic Review
Sustainable Agri-Food
Because of growing populations, more people living in cities, and higher incomes, the demand for food has changed in both quantity and quality. This has sped up the growth of different agricultural production and distribution chains. The necessary transition processes in the agri-food sectors, however, can often take a very long time to complete and have negative social and environmental effects, which puts the traditional development paradigm into question.
  • 398
  • 10 Jul 2023
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Sustainability Alignment of Supplier during Industrial Revolutions
Suppliers have evolved alongside industrial revolutions, induced by their selection criteria for over two centuries. They have marched in step from mechanization (Industry 1.0) to mass production (Industry 2.0), customization (Industry 3.0), and digitalization (Industry 4.0 and 5.0). They have grown from standalone competitors to supply chains as their selectivity has escalated from a single measure to multiple criteria. Meanwhile, sustainability has remained a pledge with no enforceable indicators in their inter-creditor agreement, leading to a lack of social responsibility and ecological accountability.
  • 187
  • 01 Dec 2023
Topic Review
Support Tool for Supplier Evaluation and Selection
The supplier selection process is considered one of the most relevant decisions in supply chain management due to its effect on the product quality and on buyer performance. Supplier selection is often unstructured, and is generally based on the lowest-price proposal. However, this type of selection involves a high risk, sometimes resulting in project delays, poor quality of acquired goods, and large financial losses. Price is undoubtedly an important criterion when choosing a supplier; however, other equally important criteria must be considered. Therefore, supplier selection should be formulated as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem.
  • 987
  • 15 Nov 2021
Topic Review
Supply Chain Transportation Indexes through Big Data
Deep learning has experienced an increased demand for its capabilities to categorize and optimize operations and provide higher-accuracy information. For this purpose, the implication of deep learning procedures has been described as a vital tool for the optimization of supply chain firms’ transportation operations, among others. Concerning the indexes of transportation operations of supply chain firms, it has been found that the contribution of big data analytics could be crucial to their optimization.
  • 122
  • 15 Sep 2023
Topic Review
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.
  • 582
  • 05 Aug 2022
Topic Review
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.
  • 442
  • 12 Jul 2022
Topic Review
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.
  • 312
  • 21 Sep 2022
Topic Review
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. 
  • 268
  • 28 Sep 2022
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