Current Issue : October-December Volume : 2025 Issue Number : 4 Articles : 5 Articles
With the increasing complexity of supply chain structures, effective coordination among stakeholders remains essential to maximize performance. This paper presents a systematic literature review of coordination contracts. Fourteen types were explored, ranging from traditional to smart contracts. This study includes a bibliometric analysis addressing technological, environmental, and risk management challenges. Despite significant progress in the field, most studies focus on dyadic supply chains, failing to cover the multi-echelon complexity. The study concludes by identifying research perspectives, particularly the combined adoption of artificial intelligence and game theory to enhance the analysis and execution of these contracts, thereby fostering resilient logistical systems....
The advancement of sustainable economic development has become a strategic imperative for enterprises aiming to combine financial development with environmental and social responsibility. In this regard, strategic enterprise management (SEM) has a critical role in incorporating the aspects of sustainability into decision making. The present paper suggests a multicriteria decision-making framework that utilizes fuzzy TOPSIS in assessing and ranking sustainability integration aspects in organizations. By considering the intrinsic vagueness of sustainability analysis, the fuzzy TOPSIS model enables the systematic analysis of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors by companies for ensuring their alignment to corporate strategic goals. A case study of a major international airport in Greece demonstrates how the proposed methodology assists strategic choice making, balancing economic viability and sustainable value creation. The results show primary trade-offs among human capital investment, environmental footprint reduction, and stakeholder communication, demonstrating how companies can enhance long-term resilience and competitiveness. This research adds to the existing literature by giving an integrated strategic enterprise management framework with the use of decision support instruments to foster sustainability-oriented corporate governance and strategic efficacy. The suggested model is flexible and can be applied in any industry, hence being a benchmark for sustainable business practice. This paper contributes to the literature by integrating fuzzy TOPSIS with balanced scorecard in the context of airport strategic sustainability management, offering both methodological advancement and empirical insights for transport and supply chain enterprises....
To address the common issues of high loss rates, high costs, and low efficiency in the cold chain logistics of fresh agricultural products, this paper takes a specific region as the research object and constructs a multidimensional evaluation model based on the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP). The model systematically analyzes the key factors affecting cold chain logistics transportation strategies and their priorities. Through model calculation and expert evaluation, it is found that transportation cost, degree of informatization, and logistics efficiency are the three core factors influencing the development of cold chain logistics. Among these, energy consumption, temperature stability, and informatization management systems dominate specific indicators. The study indicates that the region has significantly higher transportation costs due to its complex geographical environment and weak infrastructure, while the mild climate conditions make temperature control management less urgent compared to other regions. However, the long-term impact on quality assurance still requires attention. Based on the analysis results, the paper proposes multidimensional optimization strategies: promoting the use of new energy transportation tools and integrating renewable energy technologies to optimize the energy structure, combined with intelligent route planning to reduce transportation costs; building an entire chain informatization monitoring platform and a data sharing mechanism to improve management efficiency; introducing automated equipment and hierarchical distribution models to optimize operational processes; and improving the temperature control early warning system and personnel training mechanisms to ensure transportation quality. The research results provide a theoretical basis for optimizing cold chain logistics systems in high-loss regions and offer practical references for reducing agricultural product losses and promoting the sustainable development of the agricultural supply chain....
The growing frequency and complexity of both natural and man- made crises like pandemics have highlighted the need for robust emergency logistics strategies during the last decade. Procurement is one of the critical areas impacting any emergency supply chain. Dealing with disruptions usually involves multi-sourcing, option contracts, and back-up suppliers as resilient strategies. The proposed review classifies emergency procurement strategies into three capacities following the capacity resilience framework: absorptive, adaptive, and restorative. Also, quantitative resilience metrics, modelling methods, and objectives for practical scenarios are discussed. Conclusions are extracted, and future research agendas outlined....
The eyeglass lens manufacturing industry has become increasingly vulnerable to supply chain risks due to overlapping global disruptions, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Suez Canal blockage, the Russia–Ukraine conflict, Red Sea shipping insecurity, and recent U.S. import tariffs. These events have challenged inventory planning, supplier coordination, and cost control across the industry. This study aims to evaluate how five operational constructs—stock system, inventory optimization, standardized methodology, production capability, and logistics performance—influence inventory resilience during global crises. Using an empirical case study, data were collected from 215 supply chain professionals at a multinational lens manufacturer in Southeast Asia and analyzed via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results show that inventory optimization (β = 0.93) is the most influential factor in mitigating supply–demand imbalances, followed by logistics performance and production capability. This study offers practical recommendations, including real-time demand tracking, modular production systems, and scalable logistics strategies, to enhance inventory resilience. These findings contribute to both theory and practice by providing a validated framework tailored to high-precision manufacturing under persistent global risk....
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