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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are very important for monitoring Supply Chains. The problem of selecting KPIs is considered as a multi-objective problem. This paper presents a framework for the ranking and the selection of KPIs using a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). The research was carried out using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to make pairwise comparison of KPIs in terms of several...
This paper intends to design an Analytic Network Process model to assists managers of different pharmaceutical supply chain entities in identifying and prioritize the management practices they use or should use to achieve a competitive position in the market. The model involves interactions between various criteria for management practice selection. To this purpose a set of clusters and elements related...
following the multiple mutations that exist in the health sector and the limited growth of the budget it became imperative to optimize the flow of materials and patients. Logistic is required due to its dual and its overall vision. Currently, we no longer speak about short supply but the supply chain. Modeling and simulation is a technique used to understand the behavior of systems including supply...
In RFID-aided supply chains captured location-based event data is stored in distributed repositories. Performing anti-counterfeiting involves checks on the good's path in the supply chain. The path is reconstructed by querying corresponding event data from distributed repositories. The object name service performs lookups of relevant event repositories in EPCglobal networks. Attacking the lookup process...
RFID implementations leverage competitive business advantages in processing, tracking and tracing of fast-moving goods. Most of them suffer from security threats and the resulting privacy risks as RFID technology was not designed for exchange of sensible data. Emerging global RFID-aided supply chains require open interfaces for data exchange of confidential business data between business partners...
Inventory Visibility (InV) is critical for most companies involved in the pharmaceutical supply chain as they compete against each other within the chain. Possessing a richer InV is a competitive advantage for these firms to continuously improve their supply chain's performance. This paper seeks to analyze InV and to provide a theoretical model based on Entropy theory. Visibility Channel (VC) has...
Information transmission is one of the important features desired in pharmaceutical supply chain. But, at the same time, it is a challenge task as there is an information transmission lag in the existing model of supply chain management. The need of supply chain visibility and transparency in pharmaceutical industry has increased tremendously with the emerging auto-identification technologies. The...
The pharmaceutical industry suffers increasingly from product counterfeits. Although RFID technology can be used as a basis for an integer and counterfeit-resistant pharmaceutical supply chain, the total costs of ownership are hardly specified. We define specific levels of security and corresponding fields of operation to value privacy of customers and supply chain participants. Our contribution defines...
The amount of counterfeit pharmaceuticals in the European-pharmaceutical supply chain increased enormously in the past years. Thus, the European Commission introduced an amendment which will lead to new information systems. No realistic test data for these information systems is available yet which hinders the progress in designing and implementing appropriate information systems. We make a first...
Information sharing provides opportunities to reduce the safety stocks held to face uncertainty. In this context, we study the effect of sharing the information on replenishment leadtime on safety stock levels in a two echelon supply chain. We assume that the demand at the retailer is deterministic while the replenishment leadtime at the warehouse is variable with a uniform distribution. Two replenishment...
The objective of this paper is to analyze supply chain visibility (SCV) which is ill-defined and to provide a comprehensive understanding of SCV from a collaborative decision making perspective. A literature review has been conducted to understand the meanings of the extensively used jargon of supply chain visibility. The characteristics of SCV have been conceptually analyzed and a comprehensive definition...
Nowadays, firms need to support e-business through solutions that guarantee, on the one hand, the supply chain management (SCM) and, on the other, products' identification and traceability (ID automation). These two aspects have been faced, up until now, in a separate manner and adhered to the definition of established standards. Thus, we propose an approach that allows the integration of SCM and...
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