Job shop manufacturing processes have been reluctant to adopt Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERPs) for enhancing logistics performance. The cost of adopting and deploying ERPs is a high-entry barrier. Prior research has claimed that performance can be enhanced by improving logistics...

In today’s competitive business world, companies focus on small lead times, low costs and high customer satisfaction to survive in the business. Lean manufacturing is used for maximizing resource utilization through minimization of waste. As waste is eliminated, quality of the product...

From the 1990s to the late 2000s, the production of goods was divided among several countries on the basis of efficiency, and trade based on the global value chain developed around the world. As manufacturing process were split between links on the global value chain, trade in intermediate goods...