Supply Chain Flow Research Articles

Analisis Rantai Pasok Komoditas Cengkih Di Desa Rerer Kecamatan Kombi Kabupaten Minahasa

This study aims to determine the supply chain and product flow, financial flow and information flow of cloves in Rerer Village. The research was carried out for 3 to 4 months. The research location was carried out in Rerer Village, Kombi District, Minahasa Regency. was chosen because it is one of the clove-producing areas. The data collection method uses primary data obtained directly through observation and in-depth interviews with informants using questionnaires, then uses secondary data obtained from literature books, research journals and/or articles or from agencies concerned with research. The research sampling method was by using Snowball Sampling with the number of samples in the study as many as 25 farmer respondents and 2 collector traders respondents. The results show that the supply chain moves from upstream to downstream with the flow of goods from farmers as producers to collectors and distributed to factories.

Supply chain flows of sago business in Polewali Mandar Regency, West Sulawesi Province

Sago palm is a potential starch-producing plant capable of providing economic benefits to the local community. However, its utilization still needs to be improved. Hence, optimal supply chain management is expected to control the availability of sago starch and other processed sago products to be more effective and sustainable. This study aims to analyze three supply chain flows: information flow, product flow and financial flow. This research was conducted from June to December 2022 at a sago starch production center in Polewali Mandar Regency, Independent Agricultural and Rural Training Center (P4S) of Cahaya Duta Palili. The samples in this study were purposively selected, which were 30 sago farmers, an owner of sago processing company P4S Cahaya Duta Palili, an owner of Sabar Jaya Rempah Shop, and ten consumers. The analytical method used is a mixed method using data analysis techniques, namely qualitative descriptive analysis and marketing margins. The results showed that P4S has the highest profit margin, with a cost of Rp 250,000, and P4S can make a profit of Rp 2,750,000 per production. The product and financial flows have been running well and effectively, but the flow of information to supply chain actors between farmers and P4S needs to run more efficiently. This is due to a lack of communication and information between them. Farmers do not know when P4S needs raw materials, which can hinder the flow of products, finances and information in each supply chain.

Managing the Material Flow in Textile and Clothing Closed-loop Supply Chain with Product, Material, and Energy Recoveries: A Conceptual Framework

The emerging era of fast fashion has broadened the issue of sustainability and post-consumer waste in the textile and clothing industry. Textile and clothing manufacturers carry out Reverse Logistics (RL) and Closed-loop Supply Chain (CLSC) operations to manage waste related to used garment products. This study reviews existing literature on RL and CLSC in the textile and clothing industry and develops a conceptual framework for material management. This study proposes a framework to manage the flow of material in CLSC with three recovery alternatives, i.e. product, material, and energy recovery. We suggest a CLSC model involving a textile manufacturer, garment manufacturer, fashion retailer, and MRF (Material Recovery Facility). We propose an RL scheme with 100% recovery and no disposal activity. The proposed model allows the CLSC system to recover waste into energy and utilise it as an alternative energy in the upstream supply chain. We discuss some of the model limitations along with its challenges for implementation.

Supply chain flows of the assets in normal, conventional, and Islamic banking financing scenarios: a new perspective

Supply chain flows of the assets in normal, conventional, and Islamic banking financing scenarios: a new perspective

Application for waste hotspots investigation in the frozen shrimp upstream supply chain using environmental value stream mapping (E-VSM)

The waste that frequently results from the frozen shrimp industry includes the use of large amounts of clean water for processings, the production of large amounts of wastewater, the production of waste materials, and the utilisation of electricity from processings, all of which have an negative effect on the environment. This has indeed created improvement strategy with environmental integration as a way out to reduce waste hotspots in the frozen shrimp supply chain. The case study addresses a frozen shrimp company in Indonesia that encounters difficulties in natural resources utilization. Environmental Value Strseam Mapping (E-VSM) is used for the framework of a model to analyse upstream supply chain flows and to identify value added and non value added activities. Coagulant as a by-product from shrimp shells and seasoned shrimp powder from shrimp heads are used to potentially boost the added value of shrimp waste. Identifying and eliminating waste points in the frozen shrimp upstream supply chain will result in a 78% reduction in electricity use, a 68% reduction in water use, a 30% reduction in distribution costs, a 69.6% reduction in non-value-added activities, and a complete elimination of carbon emissions from the distribution process when compared to current conditions.

Supply chain flows of the assets in normal, conventional, and Islamic banking financing scenarios: a new perspective

Supply chain flows of the assets in normal, conventional, and Islamic banking financing scenarios: a new perspective

Kajian Supply Chain Porang Sebagai Komoditi Ekspor Unggulan Desa Mundeh, Belatungan dan Batungsel Kabupaten Tabanan Propinsi Bali

The impact of the Covid-19 has caused the sectors: tourism, trade, manufacturing industry, to experience a slump. But behind that there is still hope in the agricultural sector, where agricultural exports continue to grow 15.4% in 2020 and 16.4% in 2021. This is supported by exports of the commodity porang. Porang received full attention from President Joko Widodo, he instructed the Minister of Agriculture to make porang a mainstay export commodity. In 2020, porang exports were 20,476 tons with an export value of Rp.924.3 billion. Indonesia is only able to serve 20% of the world's porang needs. In 2020, Bali is only able to meet the export of 185 tons of porang from the total demand of 750 tons per year for China. Seeing this opportunity, the people of Mundeh, Belatungan and Batungsel villages planted porang. However, problems arise during the harvest season, many porang are not sold. Problem: How is the flow of the porang supply chain. Research Objectives: To find out the porang supply chain starting from farmers, collectors, factories and suppliers. Research Methods: Qualitative Exploratory with Supply Chain Management techniques. The results of the study indicate that there is a flow of material, information and finance from the level of farmers, middlemen, suppliers, factories and buyers.

Coffee Supply Chain Management: A Case Study In Ciamis, West Java, Indonesia

Ciamis Regency is a potentially developed coffee-producing area in West Java with Arabica and Robusta coffee types. However, in the current marketing process, it is still faced with various obstacles that make the supply chain flow non-optimal. Therefore, in optimizing the Ciamis coffee supply chain management, it is necessary to conduct further research related to supply chain flow, performance, and farmer’s share. This study aims to determine the flow, performance, and farmer’s share of the coffee supply chain in Ciamis Regency. This research uses the descriptive, SCOR, and farmer’s share methods. The results showed that the supply chain flow consisted of material flow in the form of green beans that flowed from upstream to downstream, the flow of information in the form of information (quantity, price, and quality of green beans) that flowed from upstream to downstream and from downstream to upstream, and financial flows in the form of cash payment transactions that flow from downstream to upstream. The performance of coffee supply chain management in Ciamis Regency has an average category with a value of 56.91. The most significant farmer's share value is found in the distribution channel from farmers to inter-regency traders, ending with outside-regency traders.

No Resilience Without Partners: A Case Study on German Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in the Context of COVID-19

Much research has been conducted on the effects of COVID-19 on company and supply chain resilience. However, few contributions have focused on small and medium-sized enterprises. These companies are claimed to be the drivers of economic growth but often lack access to resources and alternatives when interruptions occur, making them a bottleneck for supply chains. Using a multiple case study approach, this paper links resilience theory to the design of the relationships between eight German small and medium-sized enterprises and their suppliers and customers. It analyzes the way in which these companies combine contractual and relational investments across their supply chain flows of product, finance, and information in order to improve resilience. Company representatives were interviewed on three occasions between June 2018 and December 2020, that is, before COVID-19 and during the lockdowns. The results of the case study explain why and how companies of this type have been able to anticipate and manage the crisis. The interviews revealed that those companies that made the largest investments in the relational aspects of their partnerships while safeguarding product and financial flows through contracts performed best. In principle, contractual investments are higher in partnerships with suppliers. However, the precise combination of contractual and relational investments depends on the business model, the business philosophy of the CEO, and the allocation of power within the supply chain. These findings indicate that, when collaborating with small businesses, supply chain partners should focus on building relationships in order to create resilience in the supply chain.

Assessment of Supply Chain Management Practices and Sustainable Food Security in Nigeria

Supply chain flow is a major concern for food security, particularly to ensure that food is not lost between farmers and consumers. Food security has become a highly emotive issue, as chronic hunger, local food shortages, and sudden increases in food prices are strongly influencing public sentiment and reaction. This raises concern for the assessment of supply chain management and sustainable food security in Nigeria, using honesty among supply chain participants, effective storage facilities, and quality of seed as a determinant for sustainable food security. A survey research design was adopted for this study, using a structured questionnaire. Convenient and Purposive sampling techniques were used to select 80 farmers from the North-Western state of Nigeria. Descriptive statistics were used to analyse the data collected, which was presented using charts. The findings of this study show that honesty among supply chain participants, effective storage facilities for farm produce, and the quality of seeds to plant will enhance nutritional foods in society, promotes both affordability and high profits for all participants in the supply chain based on the response of the selected farmers. It was further revealed from the study that Government intervention in terms of subsidy and credit facilities to the farmers are not well harnessed by the real farmers that are actually in the business of farming. Therefore, it was recommended, among others, that there should be an effective feedback mechanism from the government to ensure the subsidy is actually addressing the purpose of its establishment.

Evaluating supply chain dynamics in the presence of product deletion

Manufacturers and retailers seek product portfolio expansion for strategic reasons. Diverse product portfolio breadth and depth can increase sales and build competitiveness; alternatively, extensive product portfolios may increase resource consumption, operational complexity, and reduce supply chain efficiency and agility. Products may be deleted for many organizational reasons. Few studies have evaluated how product deletion decisions influence supply chain activities and performance. Supply chain flow and supply chains are designed and managed around products and services. Product deletion decisions influence supply chain performance it is a systemic relationship that can change over time. In this study system dynamics is used to evaluate product deletion impact on four core supply chain inter-related systems. A conceptual framework is built upon causal loop and stock-flow diagrams. The framework is tested using simulations indicating how performance develops amongst supply chain systems through product deletion processes. Simulation experiments indicate that sound product deletion will improve market share, cost efficiency, product revenue and profitability. Being the first study that integrates systemic product deletion to the supply chain management domain, the proposed framework and simulation model of this study enable managers to evaluate product deletion decisions in different supply chain scenarios; and hence, rationalize product portfolio variety and manage organizational competitiveness.

Use of Mobile Banking, Digital Payment Systems, and Smart Contracts Conjunction with Blockchain-Based Financial System

Financial flow in a supply chain is critical because it helps ensure that the various parties involved in the supply chain are able to pay for the goods and services they receive, and that they are able to meet their financial obligations. This can help to maintain the smooth operation of the supply chain, and can also help to build trust and long-term partnerships between the different parties involved. To manage financial flow in a supply chain effectively, it is important to have clear financial policies and procedures in place, and to establish good communication and transparency with all parties involved. Blockchain technology has the potential to revolutionize financial flows in supply chains by providing a secure, transparent, and efficient way to manage and track transactions.

Supply Chain Risk Management: Sustainable Waste Management Strategy, Empirical Study at KUPAS Panggungharjo Village

KUPAS Panggungharjo Village is a business unit that manages waste so that it can be reused. Based on the results of field studies, there are several risks that hinder the flow of Supply Chain in KUPAS and also previously in KUPAS itself, risko studies have never been carried out. Therefore, it is necessary to map Supply Chain performance activities and identify risks that exist in supply chain flows in KUPAS. This study aims to identify what risks exist in the Supply Chain flow in KUPAS by using the Supply Chain Operation Refence (SCOR) method to determine the mapping of Supply Chain flows then using the House of Risk method to identify the risks that exist in the Supply Chain flow the one in KUPAS. Data collection techniques use interviews and observations. Interviews were conducted with informants who had been selected from purposive sampling techniques, namely to kupas employees and customers. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the Supply Chain performance is good, it can be seen from the total value of supply chain performance in KUPAS, which is 67.27. Meanwhile, the results of risk identification using the HOR method there are 4 sources of risk in KUPAS.

İHRACATTA COVID-19 ETKİSİ: TÜRKİYE’NİN İHRACATTA İLK 5 ÜLKEYE İHRACAT PERFORMANSININ ANALİZİ

The Covid-19 pandemic, which started in Wuhan, China in 2019, become a global health crisis by spreading to many countries in a short time. Considering the effects of the pandemic on international trade, many countries have taken measures of customs transactions, and these measures caused global changes in the supply chain flow in trade. The supply chain disruptions that led by trade-related pandemic measurements has caused to decrease in economic growth, the slowdown in trade, and weakening of financial markets. Turkey was among the countries that took customs measurements. In this study, it is aimed to understand how Turkey's export performance is affected by the trade-related pandemic measures. In this context, it was examined whether Turkey's exports were affected during the strict implementation of pandemic measures at customs. Afterwards, it was evaluated whether a "new normal" has emerged in exports after the pandemic measures taken at customs decreased with the normalization throughout the country.

Integrated innovation of East Java digital village based on collaboration of regional potential and local market evolution supply chain

Development in Indonesia is inevitable from the residual problems of development in rural areas. However, the various solutions that have been carried out still have various shortcomings, this is due to the lack of integration of the technology used to map the potential of the village and its realization, as well as the lack of use of technology in terms of optimizing the potential of the village owned. This study aims to clearly map the natural potential of the village and form the best supply chain flow to be able to deliver product processing results from mapping and processing results through digital market penetration that can increase village potential and improve village welfare. The research method used in the development of this research is the design thinking process. The results of this study are a digital village system in which there is a feature of searching for village data, presenting menus such as visualizations and infographics. The use of this research development product can increase automation in mapping village potential and supply chain flows that are right on target.

A Refined Supervision Model of Rice Supply Chain Based on Multi-Blockchain.

With the development of Agriculture 4.0, the requirements for sustainable agriculture and precision agriculture continue to grow. As one of the three major staple foods globally, the quality and safety of rice affect human health as well as social development. To ensure the quality and safety of rice and reduce the flow of problematic rice, a multi-layer blockchain-based rice supply chain refinement supervision model MBRRSM (Multi-blockchain Rice Refined Supervision Model) is proposed from the information level. First, the characteristics of information flow in the rice supply chain are analyzed, and a classification table of key information is constructed. Second, the MBRRSM framework is designed. Based on a multi-party hybrid encryption algorithm, secure multi-party computing algorithm, multi-mode storage mechanism, and SPOP (Supervision Proof of Peers) consensus algorithm, a set of mechanisms is designed for the transmission, use, storage, and consensus of rice data in MBRRSM. Subsequently, the security and performance capabilities of MBRRSM are analyzed. Meanwhile, the SPOP consensus algorithm is analyzed. Finally, a prototype system is built based on MBRRSM and verified through exemplary scenarios in different usage situations. The results show that research on the refined supervision of the rice supply chain based on multi-blockchain can finely supervise all types of data in the rice supply chain, and provide a guarantee for enterprise users to safely transmit and use data with different privacy levels. This study presents a unique research paradigm that introduces the theories and methods of the new information field generation into the field of agricultural research, and thus assists in the strategy implementation of “holding grain in the land and storing grain in technology”.

Supply Chain Efficiency and Effectiveness Management Using Decision Support Systems

The management of global supply chains that emerge from outsourcing and offshoring activities emphasizes a globally dispersed supply chain. All stakeholders and entrepreneurs worldwide have a common understanding of information technology's importance to support business activity in a rapidly changing era of customer preference. Today, many believe in a production process transition, which subsequently affects the supply chain flow in general, fearing overuse and inefficiency from upstream to downstream. Thus, this article proposes supply chain efficiency and effectiveness management using decision support systems (SCE2M-DSS). This conceptual framework uses an intelligent decision support system for the supply chain's proactive capacity planning under uncertain conditions. An intelligent decision-making support system is designed with reinforcement learning (RL) to validate the conceptual framework. The application of decision-making methods developed initially focused on product development and service production.

Suppliers portfolio and returner incentive decisions in closed-loop remanufacturing systems under multiple stochastic scenarios

ABSTRACT We propose a decision tree model that considers reverse and forward flows in a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC). Based on observations of three CLSCs, the model considers an environment where there is uncertainty in the quantity of returned used components (and new components from suppliers) with the decision being the incentive offered to each return source. Given that there are multiple suppliers, one must determine which supplier(s) to use and the corresponding capacity to reserve, in order to minimise total system costs. An example and a sensitivity analysis are presented to illustrate the model and to investigate multiple scenarios under various conditions. The analysis demonstrates that the supplier portfolio and returner incentive decisions are strongly linked to the supplier reliability, returned quantities, and the costs of not meeting the demand. Furthermore, the analysis suggests that understanding the behaviour of return sources relative to incentives is the most critical variable to implement the model.

Risk Management Analysis in Tobacco Supply Chain Using the House of Risk Method

Many risks affect the smooth flow of the supply chain, thereby necessitating numerous efforts to improve supply chain management by preventing and resolving these occurrences. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to determine the sources of possible and priority risks in the tobacco supply chain in Probolinggo Regency and design appropriate priority management strategies. This research investigated the flow of the tobacco supply chain and identified various possible risks using the Failure Modes and Effect Analysis (FMEA) method, which analyzes the impact or severity and chance of occurrence. A risk event was conducted in the plan and source process to determine the type of risk and identify the priority agents that can be reduced by the House of risk (HOR) approach. Subsequently, this research obtained 11 risk events and 20 agents, including 4 priorities for handling, alongside 4 coping strategies designed to address and reduce possible sources of risk in the tobacco supply chain

HungerHash: A Distributed Network for Child-Hunger Relief based on Hedera Hashgraph

This paper proposes a hunger relief network based on crypto-currency and a hybrid mix of centralized and decentralized databases which is totally formed by the volunteers and donors and is out of control of centralized organizations. The centralized part of the database maintains non-sensitive information with less need to security features, mainly providing motivative information for donors and giving feedback to know that how their gifts were spent. The decentralized part of the design is based on a third-generation Distributed Ledger Technology which contains sensitive information of payments and receipts and flow of supply chain, which is designed to be fast, secure and fault tolerant.