Australia as a case study and employing only transportation cost and sales data to measure store performance in distribution … a distribution network as an alternative approach to the conventional method of optimising delivery routes and schedules …, DEA was applied to rationalise the network, thereby enhancing overall distribution efficiency. To support the use of DEA …

-echelon multi-period distribution system. To alleviate the computational intractability, we develop a heuristic procedure that … number of variables in the model. The reduced model is shown to identify near optimal solutions for the entire distribution …

local search-based improvement phase. The performance of the solution approach and its capability in finding the appropriate …

) strategy, and firm performance. As such, this paper, adopts an alignment perspective to empirically examine the complex links … is found that overall an SC strategy when properly aligned with a CE strategy leads to improved firm performance …. Specifically, a risk-hedging SC strategy should be aligned with a defensive CE strategy to yield improved firm performance …

' supply chain agility and the connection of their agility with performance in an emerging economy. Drawing upon the … efficiency mediates the relationship between agility and performance based on transaction cost economics. Employing path analysis … between the manufacturer's supply chain agility and performance. Implications are discussed and future research directions are …

investments can improve organizational performance. Additionally, some authors have suggested striking similarities between … quality management in the environmental management—performance relationship. Specifically, we assess whether or not quality … management practices interact with environmental practices to drive operational performance. This question was tested with survey …

positive effect on a firm's economic and environmental performance. Conversely, the results suggest that product return … negatively affects a firm's economic performance and has no effect on environmental performance. We highlight the managerial …