Enterprise Supply Chain Research Articles

E-commerce Enterprise's Supply Chain Green Transformation Strategy

With the increasing awareness of social environmental protection and the widespread concept of sustainable development, enterprises gradually realize the importance of environmental responsibility in the process of operation. For e-commerce enterprises, their green transformation in supply chain management has become an inevitable trend. Especially in the modern consumption model, e-commerce enterprises not only need to improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction but also must actively respond to increasingly stringent environmental regulations and consumer demand for green products. Therefore, promoting the green transformation of the supply chain not only helps to reduce the environmental impact but also enhances the social image of the enterprise and enhances the competitiveness of the brand. Taking e-commerce enterprises as the research object, this paper systematically combs the core issues of green transformation of the supply chain, including specific challenges such as cost problems, shortage of technology and talents, and changes in policies and regulations. In view of these problems, optimization strategies are put forward from the aspects of reducing cost, introducing technology and talents, and coping with policy changes. This paper aims to provide scientific reference suggestions for the green supply chain transformation of e-commerce enterprises to help them achieve sustainable development goals.

How SMEs’ supply chain specific investment impacts supply chain financing performance: insights from signaling theory

Purpose This study aims to investigate how small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs’) supply chain specific investment (SCSIs) affects supply chain financing performance (SCFP) in the innovative industrial finance model, and further analyze the internal mechanisms and important contextual factors. Design/methodology/approach Based on signaling theory, this study constructs a mediating and moderating model to examine the influencing mechanisms of SMEs’ SCSIs on SCFP, including the mediating effect of opportunism and the moderating effect of digital technology deployment (DTD). A multiple regression analysis is conducted to verify the theoretical hypotheses, using questionnaire data collected from 288 SMEs in China. Findings The empirical findings indicate that both SMEs’ supply chain asset-specific and relationship-specific investments can significantly promote SCFP. Also, SMEs’ SCSIs can improve SCFP by reducing the occurrence of opportunism perceived by supply chain partners. The breadth of DTD positively moderates the relationship between the two types of SCSIs and SCFP, while the depth of DTD has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between SCSIs and SCFP. Originality/value This study has discussed the important and novel issue of how financially distressed SMEs can send effective signals to financial institutions by increasing their SCSIs in supply chain finance mode. By revealing the influencing mechanisms of SMEs’ SCSIs on SCFP, this study contributes to expanding the research on the antecedents of SCFP from the dimension of interorganizational transactions. This study also enriches the perspectives of signaling theory by exploring the interaction between signal sender and signal intermediary.

Research on the Application of Green Supply Chain in New Energy Automobile Industry under the Background of "Double Carbon" Goal

This paper adopts a case study approach to study the green supply chain of new energy vehicle enterprises represented by BYD. The SWOT method is used to analyze the advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats of BYD's green supply chain, and summarize the ways to implement the green supply chain in new energy vehicle enterprises, including: the construction of a reasonable vertical supply chain; increasing the research investment in new energy automobile environmental protection science and technology, as well as the digitization of supply chain management. Through the study of BYD's green supply chain management, it can be found that: the vertical supply chain enhances the stability of the green supply chain of new energy automobile enterprises; the green technology created by the continuous investment in scientific research promotes the supply chain of new energy vehicle enterprises to be more low-carbon and green; and the digitalization of the supply chain management is an effective tool for new energy automobile enterprises to carry out green supply chain management.

Enhanced Digital Capabilities for Building Resilient Supply Chains: Exploring Visibility, Collaboration, and Resilience in China’s Electric Vehicle Industry

This study investigates the impact of digital capabilities (DC) on building resilient supply chains in China’s electric vehicle (EV) industry. As the complexity of the EV sector continues to grow, improving supply chain resilience (SCR) is essential for sustaining long-term growth and maintaining competitiveness. This research focuses on how visibility and collaboration, supported by DC, contribute to the development of SCR. Using structural equation modeling (SEM), data from 399 Chinese EV supply chain enterprises were analyzed to examine the moderating effects of DC and their sub-dimensions—digital infrastructure capability, digital analytics capability, and strategic support capability—on the relationships between visibility, collaboration, and resilience. The results reveal that both visibility and collaboration significantly and positively influence resilience, with visibility having the strongest impact. Furthermore, digital analytics capability enhances the positive effect of collaboration on resilience, while overall DC and other dimensions, such as digital infrastructure and strategic support capabilities, show limited impact. The findings also underscore that digital infrastructure capability plays a vital role in amplifying the impact of visibility on resilience. Consequently, EV supply chain enterprises are encouraged to invest continuously in digital infrastructure and analytics capabilities to strengthen their SCR.

Mixed integer programming model based on branch delimitation-relaxation variables application in sustainable supply chain enterprise management

Mixed integer programming model based on branch delimitation-relaxation variables application in sustainable supply chain enterprise management

Analysis of the dynamic evolution of green technology innovation decision-making in the supply chain.

Green technology innovation (GTI) breaks the vicious cycle of "economic development-environmental pollution," mitigating the supply chain carbon emissions. Previous research focused on exploring supply chain GTI decision-making in the discrete strategy space and ignored the effect of stochastic factors. This paper, grounded in the classical evolutionary game theory, explores the interaction mechanism of supply chain GTI decision-making between suppliers and manufacturers under stochastic interferences and in the continuous strategy space. The main findings are as follows. First, regardless of the game scenario, the government subsidy, carbon price, and consumer green preference are incentive variables, while the innovation cost coefficient is an inhibitory variable. As the incentive variables increase or the inhibitory variables decrease, the game system evolves from the negative to the intermediate state, ultimately converging to the ideal state. Second, the ideal state becomes unstable after considering stochastic interferences, reflecting the fragility of bilateral innovation alliances between suppliers and manufacturers. Simultaneously, the evolution of the game system towards the negative state is also hindered, and the corresponding variable condition region narrows. In other words, stochastic interferences have a dual impact on supply chain GTI strategies. Third, an absolute negative state of no innovation does not exist in the continuous strategy space. Suppliers and manufacturers can determine the optimal innovation intensity to maximize expected returns, making GTI decision-making more flexible and resilient. This paper enriches the theoretical achievements of the evolutionary game theory and provides a reference for GTI strategies of supply chain enterprises.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Circularity: Stakeholder Collaboration in Textile SMEs in Indonesia

The textile industry is a significant contributor to environmental degradation, leading to an increasing emphasis on sustainable entrepreneurship and circular supply chains. This qualitative case study examines the experiences of textile-based SMEs in Indonesia who use shredded fabric from larger textile industries to create new fashion products. The urgency of this study lies in understanding the challenges faced by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in textile-based circular supply chains, particularly in their collaboration with stakeholders. The in-depth interviews with five SME owners, two consumers, a supplier, a government official, and a CSO activist uncovered several critical challenges, including limited availability and access to shredded-fabric and inconsistent quality and quantity of the raw material, transforming the shredded-fabric into finished fashion products, reaching SMEs’ target market and promoting their products effectively, and the management of small leftover fabric pieces from production, referred to as “tatal.” The study proposes the following strategies to address the challenges: foster trust and transparency with suppliers, reactivate the joint business cooperative, work with government agencies and policymakers to establish customized support and regulatory structures, collaborate with government agencies and academic institutions, expand the market for tatal waste beyond the arts, and partner with the Department of the Environment to manage tatal waste. The findings contribute to the academic literature on sustainable entrepreneurship and provide practical insights for SMEs, policymakers, and industry stakeholders to enhance the circularity of textile supply chains.

Analysis of the Transformation of the New Energy Vehicle Industry under the Background of the Digital Economy

Today, the digital economy has become the main theme. The digital economy includes digital industrialization, industrial digitization, digital governance, and data value. In this context, data has become the kinetic energy of factors for economic development. In recent years, China's new energy vehicle industry has risen rapidly. In the 2024 "Global Top 100 Auto Supply Chain", three Chinese enterprises have entered the top 20: CATL, Weichai Group, and Huayu Automotive. This represents the profound accumulation and innovation ability of Chinese component enterprises and shows the indispensable role and status of Chinese enterprises in the global auto supply chain to the world. The development of the new energy vehicle industry has promoted the reconstruction of the auto industry chain, including the production and manufacturing of core components such as batteries, motors, and electronic controls, as well as the development of fields such as intelligent driving and intelligent interconnection. This transformation has not only promoted technological innovation and business model innovation within the industry but also driven the construction and improvement of related infrastructure, such as the construction of charging piles and battery swapping stations, as well as the development of intelligent transportation systems, providing convenience for the popularization and use of new energy vehicles.

Exploring Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors Affecting Supply Chain Resilience: From Employees’ Perspectives

In the domain of supply chain resilience (SCR), research has disproportionately emphasized the environmental dimensions of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, leading to an oversight regarding the roles played by social and governance factors. To address this gap, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 313 employees from five Chinese supply chain enterprises. Through factor analysis, this study identified four latent variables associated with environmental factors, three with social factors, and four with governance factors. A structural equation model was then developed to present a comprehensive analysis of the impacts of the three ESG dimensions and digital intelligence on SCR, while also examining the interplay among these ESG factors. The findings reveal that environmental factors positively influence SCR, whereas social and governance factors exert a negative impact. This study further observes that digital intelligence enhances ESG factors but does not directly influence SCR. These results underscore the intricate dynamics between ESG indicators, digital intelligence, and SCR, highlighting the imperative for supply chain entities to make balanced decisions. This research offers novel insights into the effects of ESG factors from the employees’ viewpoint, providing implications and recommendations for supply chain management.

RETRACTION: The Evaluation of Enterprise Supply Chain Intelligent Manufacturing System for Agricultural Interconnection Data Based on Machine Learning

Retraction: C. Yu, L. Li, J. Li, P. Qin, and B. Zhang, “,” Expert Systems 41, no. (2024): . https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13259. The above article, published online on 23 February 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor‐in‐Chief, David Camacho; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, the parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. In addition, the investigation found a number of irrelevant or missing citations included in the published article which leaves some statements insufficiently supported. Therefore, the article must be retracted. The authors did not respond to the notice regarding the retraction.

Impact of intellectual property protection on enterprise supply chain resilience: empirical evidence from China’s intellectual property pilot and demonstration city policy

This study leverages China’s staggered implementation of the intellectual property pilot and demonstration city (IPPDC) policy as a quasi-natural experiment to evaluate the impact of intellectual property protection (IPP) on enterprise supply chain resilience (SCR). The empirical analysis reveals that the establishment of the IPPDC significantly enhances SCR by promoting innovation, improving technology diffusion capabilities, and fostering a cooperative culture within enterprises. Additionally, when enterprise innovation and technology diffusion are treated as threshold variables, the positive effects of IPP on SCR intensify, exhibiting a nonlinear and progressively increasing spillover effect. In contrast, the influence of IPP on SCR through enterprise cooperation follows a U-shaped trajectory, with an initial decline followed by a subsequent rise. These findings emphasize the importance of interactions between policy-makers and enterprises in strengthening supply chain responsibility. Heterogeneity analysis indicates that IPPDC policies have a stronger effect on enterprises with robust SCR, with more significant improvements in the creation of SCR than in resistance and recovery abilities. This effect is consistently observed across primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, with particularly substantial impacts in western China. Moreover, private enterprises benefit more from IPP policies than do state-owned enterprises. These findings provide valuable insights for policy-makers by demonstrating the practical implications of IPP policies beyond their theoretical constructs. This study underscores the critical role of IPP in fortifying SCR, ultimately strengthening firms’ global competitiveness and resilience amid rising geopolitical risk and global uncertainty.

RESEARCH ON THE IMPACT OF DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN ON ENTERPRISE OPERATION PERFORMANCE

This study primarily contributes theoretically in three areas: firstly, it enhances the understanding of supply chain digitalization, develops a conceptual model, and broadens the scope of empirical research on this topic. Secondly, the micro-mechanism of manufacturing enterprise supply chain digitalization has improved enterprise operation performance; Thirdly, this study introduces three innovative multi-angle research viewpoints, based on the supply chain's structural composition of point, line, and surface. These viewpoints aim to comprehensively summarize and deeply explore the deep-rooted implications and diverse performance of the supply chain, while also developing a comprehensive measurement index system and method for supply chain flexibility. This study offers practical insights in four key areas: This study identifies an effective starting point for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises in China, offers innovative ideas to enhance their operational performance, and lays the groundwork for those preparing to digitize their supply chains in the era of the digital economy. (3) It is beneficial for manufacturing enterprises to prioritize the development of supply chain flexibility. (4) It assists the leaders of manufacturing enterprises in recognising the role of environmental turbulence, enabling them to seize more opportunities in a dynamic environment.

Supply Chain Finance pada Pelaku SMEs: Kasus di Kota Pontianak

Liquidity is a crucial word in the success of both large and small-scale businesses. Generally, MSMEs run their businesses with their capital, so they easily experience financial constraints in their operational cycles. Therefore, efforts to optimize liquidity are a major concern. Research in the field of supply chain focuses more on the physical flow of products/services and the flow of information. Meanwhile, the financial aspects and their sustainability in the supply chain have only received more attention after the financial crisis. Uncertainty in the economy increases business pressure on the supply chain of micro and medium enterprises (Supply Chain Finance). Given the role of the SCF concept and its potential, this study explores the understanding of SCF in MSMEs based in Pontianak and access to financial resources for sustainable business stability. This study is qualitative, using a questionnaire, and the results show that the relationship between buyers and suppliers still needs to be stronger because they do not invest much in infrastructure or production lines to create similarities with the business characteristics of the product. In addition, this paper suggests some implications for the development of local MSMEs in general and their supply chains in particular.

Evaluate Multi-Objective Optimization Model for Product Supply Chain Inventory Control Based on Grey Wolf Algorithm

Enterprise supply chain inventory control plays a critical role in modern enterprise management. Yet achieving multi-objective optimization remains challenging. This paper proposes a deep learning integrated model based on grey wolf optimization (GWO-DLIM) aimed at optimizing inventory holding costs, stockout costs, and order costs. The model integrates multi-layer perceptron (MLP), DeBERTa, and GWO, leveraging the powerful predictive and feature extraction capabilities of deep learning models, combined with the global optimization ability of the grey wolf algorithm, to achieve multi-objective optimization. These results demonstrate that the GWO-DLIM model significantly outperforms other comparative models across all metrics, exhibiting lower prediction errors and root mean square errors, as well as higher service levels. This study provides an effective multi-objective optimization solution for supply chain inventory management, holding significant theoretical and practical implications.

The bullwhip effect, market competition and standard deviation ratio in two parallel supply chains

The bullwhip effect, market competition and standard deviation ratio in two parallel supply chains

Sustainable optimisation of SMEs closed-loop supply chain for lithium battery manufacturing

Maintaining the sustainability of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) supply chain has positive impact on society. Under the ripple effect, the vulnerability of the SMEs supply chain and the collaboration uncertainty of participants have potentially negative impact on the sustainability that cannot be ignored. We consider the closed-loop SMEs supply chain network design based on the risk propagation to improve the triple sustainability. The basis of the simulation model structure is a bi-level multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model that aims to maximise triple sustainability, and an improved dynamic non-dominated genetic algorithm (DNSGA2) is designed to solve the problem. An SMEs supply chain for closed-loop manufacturing of lithium batteries in China was considered. The results show that the centralised SMEs supply chain preform better when the supply-demand imbalance, and the distributed network structure is preform better in maintaining sustainability when manufacturer capacity imbalances. Supply chain managers should develop more flexible strategies based on the structure of downstream demand, increasing upstream manufacturers' participation to enhance their viability and improve the sustainability of the supply chain.

The Application of Big Data Technology in Supply Chain Cost Control: The Case of IKEA

Abstract: Supply chain management is important in all aspects of business processes. With the advent of the information age, big data technology has become important in developing all aspects of our country. Appropriate use of big data technology in supply chain cost management by enterprises can not only improve their ability to analyse and master data but also timely control the cost expenditure issues in different links of the supply chain, improve management systems, and enhance the companys core competitiveness. In order to improve the efficiency and accuracy of supply chain management, this study explores the application of big data technology in enterprise supply chain cost control and data analysis. This study uses big data as the background to analyse the costs of several important links in the supply chain of IKEA. It combines the discovered problems with big data technology to improve them, hoping to be helpful to the development of IKEA and related industries.

The Current Situation and Optimization Path of Enterprise Supply Chain Management Construction in the Context of Digitalization

Abstract: The advancement of information technology has resulted in a rapid rise of a new phase of technical and industrial revolution, propelling the global shift from an industrial economy to a digital economy at an accelerated rate. Digital transformation has become an irreversible and pervasive tendency in contemporary society. Despite the significant growth of China's economy, the industrial supply chain is not operating at its highest efficiency. To achieve sustainable cost reduction and efficiency, enterprises need to promote digital transformation and supply chain upgrading. By doing so, enterprises can optimize resource allocation among different links in the supply chain and enhance the quality of their development. This study conducted an investigation of the value benefits, problems, and difficulties of enterprise supply chain digital transformation, using Jingdong as an example. The following article aims to provide a credible reference for organizations by discussing the successful paths and measures of digitizing the supply chain, using Jingdong's experience and activities in supply chain digital transformation as a reference.

Research on Procurement Cost Control Based on Supply Chain Management

In modern enterprise management, strengthening the control and management of procurement processes can effectively reduce operational costs. However, with the continuous reform and improvement of China’s market economy system, competition among supply chain enterprises has intensified. The traditional procurement management model is no longer able to meet the needs of enterprise development in the current era. As a result, procurement management based on supply chain management has emerged, offering significant improvements in the scientific management of procurement processes. It has become an important means of promoting the long-term development of enterprises. This paper primarily analyzes and studies procurement cost control based on supply chain management, providing insights for reference.

Path Selection of Integrated Development of Enterprise Supply Chain Management Driven by Digital Transformation

Digital transformation provides a new impetus for the development of the supply chain, which can not only improve and expand the visualization level of the supply chain system and the matching scheduling ability, so as to improve the system agility and work efficiency. Based on this, this paper analyzes and discusses the integrated development of supply chain management driven by digital transformation, discusses how to integrate different technologies under the digital background to form a centralized and fast response of supply chain management, and correspondingly cultivate a dynamic supply chain ecosystem to achieve the overall strategic change of the organization.