S.No.

Authors

Source

Topic

Area of Work

Lawrence A. Nicholson

Inventory
Social and Economic
Management,
Studies, Vol. 51, No.
Improving Inventory SDA Healthcare
3, Managing Health
Management in
Network
Care in
Healthcare systems. consisting of a
Jamaica(SEPTEMBE
network of seven
R 2002), pp. 65-103
large hospitals.

Sarabjeet Khurana,
Neelam Chillar et.al.

Vol.5, No.1, 8-13

(2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10
.4236/health.2013.5
1002

Inventory control
techniques in
medical stores of a
tertiary care
neuropsychiatry
hospital in Delhi

Inventory
Management

Samuel Toba et.al. (Case

Study)

M. Papageorgiou et.al.

Volume 6, Number
1, pp 49-55 -
2008 CSU-POM

Supply Chain
Management in
Hospital: A Case
Study

Supply Chain
Management

Operational
Research: An
International
Journal. Vol. 1, No3
(2001 ), pp.241-251

Long Term Sales

Forecasting for
Industrial
Supply Chain
Management

Supply Chain
Management,
sales forecasting

Zeki Ayag et. al.

J Intell Manuf (2013)

24:11111122
DOI 10.1007/s10845logistics
012-0639-4,
A fuzzy QFD
requirements
Received: 4 October
approach to
and supply chain
2011 / Accepted: 28 determine supply
management
March 2012 /
chain management
(SCM) strategies
Published online: 10 strategies in the
for the dairy
April 2012
dairy industry.
industry.
Springer
Science+Business
Media, LLC 2012.

Ali Diabat et.al.

Int J Adv Manuf

Technol (2013)
68:949961
DOI 10.1007/s00170An exploration of
Green
013-4955-4,
green supply chain
supply chain
Received: 28
practices
management
November 2012 /
and performances in (GSCM) practices
Accepted: 13 March
an automotive
in manufacturing
2013 / Published
industry.
organizations.
online: 23 April
2013
# Springer-Verlag
London 2013.

Marcos Andr Mendes

Primo

Oper Manag Res

(2010) 3:4359
DOI 10.1007/s12063009-0027-1,
Received: 2 June
Supply chain
2009 / Revised: 26
integration
December 2009 /
mechanisms for
Accepted: 29
alleviating supply
December 2009 /
problems in
Published online: 19 manufacturing firms
January 2010
# Springer
Science+Business
Media, LLC 2010.

Supply Chain
Management

Fauzia Siddiqui et.al.

The Impact of
Supply Chain
Management
Global Journal of
Practices in Total
Flexible Systems
Quality
Management
Management
(March 2012)
Practices and
13(1):1123
Flexible System
DOI 10.1007/s40171Practices
012-0002-9
Context: An
Empirical Study in
Oil and Gas Industry

Supply Chain
Management

Int J Adv Manuf

Technol (2014)
72:10991119
DOI 10.1007/s00170014-5684-z,
Developing an
Received: 21
integrated inventory
Mahdi Shafieezadeh et.al.
October 2013
management model
/Accepted: 31
for multi-item multiJanuary 2014
echelon supply chain
/Published online:
12 March 2014
# Springer-Verlag
London 2014.

Supply Chain
Management,
Inventory
Management

10

Oper Manag Res

(2011) 4:164181
DOI 10.1007/s12063011-0058-2,
Received: 1 July
2011 / Revised: 13
September 2011 /
Richard G. Mathieu et.al.
Accepted: 15
September 2011 /
Published online: 27
September 2011
# Springer
Science+Business
Media, LLC 2011.

The selection of
supply chain
management
projects: A case
study approach

Supply chain
management
project, SCM
project selection

Location

Objective

Jamaica

To examine how
efficiencies in
supply chain
management and
effective use of
sourcing and
technology has
reduced hospital
costs.

New Delhi

1.To identify the categories of

drugs which need strin-gent
management control.
2.To
analyze the annual
consumption of items of medical store and expenditure
incurred on them for the year
2008-2009.
3.To evolve a priority system
based on ABC and VED and
ABC-VED matrix analysis.
4.To identify the item
categories requiring greater supervisory monitoring.

Issues

Key words

1. Mgt of inventory

Multi-Echelon Inventory
approach, non-linear
inventory model,
Newsboy model,
sequential linear
programming.

1. Cost management

ADE (annual drug

expenditure), ABC
(Activity based costing),
VED
(Vital,essential,desirabl
e)

US

Germany

To examine how
efficiencies in
supply chain
management and
effective use of
sourcing and
technology has
reduced hospital
costs. (Kaiser
Permanente)

To do the sales
forecasting in order
for the long term
planning of the supply
chain to be realized
succesfully.

Product management,
Inefficiencies in Health care
sourcing and services,
system, excessive
purchasing systems and
administrative
technology, and
expenses, inflated prices,
inventory and
poor management,
distribution
inappropriate care, waste,
management.
and fraud.

To do the sales forecast for

forecsting horizons (upto
52 periods), high no. of qty
to be forecasted, which
limits the possibilities of
human intervention &
frequent introduction of
new articles( whose past
sales data is not available).

Sales forecasting,
Supply chain
management, sales
data, manufacturing
capacity

Turkey

The aim of this study

is to identify the
crucial logistics
Dairy customer needs ,
requirements and
Dairy logistics
supply chain
To improve customer
requirements , Supply
management
satisfaction and to
chain management
(SCM) strategies for determine better strategies
strategies ,
the dairy industry and in order to have a good
Fuzzy QFD , Multithe application of
supply chain management.
objective mathematical
Fuzzy QFD method in
programming.
order to find out the
aspects in improving
customer satisfaction.

To assess the
Supply chain
importance
To understand the impact
management,
of GSCM practices and of Green Supply Chain
Environmental
South India performances in an
practices over the
sustainability , Green
automotive
automotive industry and its
supply chain
company in a
implications.
management , Fuzzy set
developing country.
theory , TOPSIS.

NorthAmerica

To analyse the
importance of
Integration
Integration ,Supply
mechanisms to
To address the supply chain
chain , Manufacturing ,
enhance interaction problems in manufacturing
Purchasing ,
and collaboration in
firms.
Commitment
the firm supply chain,
especially in the buyersupply interface.

India

This research
conceptualizes and
develops two
Customer relationship,
dimensions of SCM
Flexible system
practices (strategic
practices , Indian oil
To Understand wether
relationship and
and gas industry,
there exists a correlation
customers
Supply chain
between the SCM, TQM
relationship) and tests
management practices ,
practices and the FS
the
Flexibility,
practices.
relationship of SCM
Strategic management ,
practice in terms of
Total quality
SCM program,
management.
TQM practices, and FS
practices.

Global

To propose an
integrated inventory
management
model within a multiitem, multi-echelon
supply
chain (SC).

Optimzation of the total

cost of the whole supply
chain.

Supply chain
management, Inventory
management, Multiitem, Multi-echelon,
Integrated
approach , Differential
evolution algorithm

Not
Specified

To examine the
methods used in
Supply chain
evaluating and
To identify a set of
management project,
selecting SCM
generalizable good
SCM
projects used by
practices
project selection, SCM
management at three
in the selection and
project management
publically held
evaluation of SCM projects. best practices , Case
multinational
studies.
organizations.

Quantitative Techniques

Distribution scenarios were

modelled based on
Newsboy model. Lingo
optimisation software and
microsoft excel were used
to solve the models.

1. ABC 2. VED 3. ABC-VED

Matrix

Qualitative Techniques

NIL

None

Findings/ Conclusions

Two Models were

formulated based on
certain assumptions and
considering various other
surrounding factors in
Jamaica in which each had
sub models for different
scenarios. After checking
with the feasibilities of the
models it was concluded
that Model 2 be
recommended for the costeffective working of the
healthcare sector in
Jamaica and also said that
if needed as per the
location one can go for
either of the models or
can go with the
combination of both

Use of ABC-VED Matrix to

give solutions for the
present issues.

NIL

Holt-Winters Method,
Feedforward Multilayer
Nueral Networks(FMNN)

NIL

NIL

Several factors were the

outcomes of this case
study such as in Supply
chain mgt the major
factors that corresponded
to the issues were
outdated IT systems, poor
inventory and distribution
mgt, adhoc procurement
systems, lack of executive
involvement and no
process improvement
culture. In case of Product
mgt they use "Sourcing
and standard teams".
Global Data
Synchronization Network
(GDSN).

The problem in the paper

has been tackled by the
use of th Holt-Winters
Method, FMNN and a
modified version of HoltWinters Method is order
to do the sales forecast for
upto long periods of time.

Fuzzy
QFD methodology,multiobjective mathematical
programming
models.

Qualitative
information was
converted firstly into
quantitative parameters,
and then this data is
combined with other
quantitative
data to parameterize two
multi-objective
mathematical
programming
models. In the first model,
the most important
Factors are found and then
logistic requirements for
converted to quantitative
the company are
data and then analysed.
determined based
on total technical
importance, total cost,
total feasibility and
total value increment
objectives, and in the
second model,
based on these objectives,
appropriate supply chain
management
strategies are determined.
Finally, a case study from
the Turkish dairy industry

fuzzy multiple
criteria decision-making
method (The fuzzy TOPSIS
method).

The result of this paper

presents practical
guidance for managers in
performing GSCM
practices by ranking GSCM
practices
according to their
importance which leads to
improving
GSCM performances.

NIL

NIL

SPSS 16 - Regression
Analysis and correlation

Cross-Case Analysis

NIL

Four firms were taken into

consideration during the
study mostly of aerospace
and OEM's in electronic
industry. Three
propositions were
considered for each sector
and the realtive cross-case
analysis was undertaken.
It was found that the
supply chain mechanisms
related to supply
related problem solving
that are not discussed in
the initial
propositions. Even though
supply problems may have
originated upstream in the
firm supply chain, there is
no
integration with indirect
suppliers in any of the four
cases.

The hypothesis testing

using step-wise regression
analysis and the
correlation test shows
that SCM practices is
positively correlated
with TQM Practices and FS
Practices.TQM practice
and
FS practices are vital and
play crucial role in SCM
practice.

Integrated inventory
management
model within a multi-item,
multi-echelon supply
chain (SC), integrated threeechelon inventory
management
model,Developed
differential evolution
algorithm.

NIL

In this paper, a novel

inventory management
framework
for a three-echelon multiitem supply chain was
proposed. In order to
optimize global inventory
cost of the supply chain,
several inventory
control policies
corresponding to various
levels
have been proposed in an
integrated point of view.
Mixed Integer
non-linear mathematical
model which has
been solved applying DE
algorithm to tackle the
computational complexity
of the problem.

NIL

cross-case comparisons

As mentioned three
publically held
multinational
organizations were taken
up for the study. Each case
was individually looked up
and thereafter a crosscase comparison was
done to know that if
patterns of successful
evaluation and selection
of SCM projects exist. In
all three cases the
evaluation and selection
of supply chain projects
were
considerably influenced by
the organizations overall
business
strategy. Based on the
camparative study 9
observations were
deduced which were the
useful practices in SCM
project selection.

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Authors
Mahdi Shafieezadeh et.al.

Methods