1.

Angappa Gunasekaran, Christopher Patel and Ronald E

McGaughey 2004
Gunasekaran, A., Patel, C., & McGaughey, R. E. (2004). A framework for supply chain
performance measurement. International journal of production economics, 87(3), 333-
347.

Supply chain management (SCM) has been a major component of competitive strategy
to enhance organizational productivity and profitability. The literature on SCM that
deals with strategies and technologies for effectively managing a supply chain is quite
vast. In recent years, organizational performance measurement and metrics have
received much attention from researchers and practitioners. The role of these measures
and metrics in the success of an organization cannot be overstated because they affect
strategic, tactical and operational planning and control. Performance measurement and
metrics have an important role to play in setting objectives, evaluating performance, and
determining future courses of actions. Performance measurement and metrics pertaining
to SCM have not received adequate attention from researchers or practitioners. We
developed a framework to promote a better understanding of the importance of SCM
performance measurement and metrics. Using the current literature and the results of an
empirical study of selected British companies, we developed the framework presented
herein, in hopes that it would stimulate more interest in this important area.

2. Miguel Afonso Sellitto, Luis Antonio Machado Vial and Cláudia

Viviane Viegas 2018
Sellitto, M. A., Vial, L. A. M., & Viegas, C. V. (2018). Critical success factors in Short Food
Supply Chains: Case studies with milk and dairy producers from Italy and Brazil. Journal of
Cleaner Production, 170, 1361-1368.
The purpose of this article is to analyze the role of critical success factors in Short Food
Supply Chain (SFSC). The study presents a small farmers' cross-cultural analysis - two
Italian and two Brazilian milk and dairy producers - that shortened their Food Supply Chain
(FSC) to get closer to the consumers and to deliver products with high quality and
traceability, and at the same time increase profits. The reduction of distances and the
elimination of intermediaries, solely, may increase production earnings in the SFSC, but it
does not assure a long-term position in food markets. Success factors for SFSC were
identified and retrieved from the literature and presented to three Italian and three Brazilian
experts in FSC for analyzing each case. It was found that producers had cultural difficulties
for SFSC model adoption, but economic reasons as cutting costs of transportation and
elimination of intermediary agents justified their initiatives. However, consolidation of SFSC
implementation still requires environmental protection efforts linked to better production
processes in small farms, and health safeguards for consumers, as well as the preservation of
the cultural heritage associated with the region of origin of the production.

3. Mohit Malik, Vijay Kumar Gahlawat, Rahul S Mor, Vijay Dahiya,

and Mukheshwar Yadav 2022
Malik, M., Gahlawat, V. K., Mor, R. S., Dahiya, V., & Yadav, M. (2022). Application of
Optimization Techniques in the Dairy Supply Chain: A Systematic Review. Logistics, 6(4),
74.
The global dairy market is experiencing a massive transition as dairy farming has recently
undergone modernization. As a result, the dairy industry needs to improve its operational
efficiencies by implementing effective optimization techniques. Conventional and emerging
optimization techniques have already gained momentum in the dairy industry. This study’s
objective was to explore the optimization techniques developed for or implemented in the
dairy supply chain (DSC) and to investigate how these techniques can improve the DSC.
Methods: A systematic review approach based on PRISMA guidelines were adopted to
conduct this review. The authors used descriptive statistics for statistical analysis. Results:
Modernization has led the dairy industry to improve its operational efficiencies by
implementing the most effective optimization techniques. Researchers have used
mathematical modeling-based methods and are shifting to artificial intelligence (AI) and
machine learning (ML) -based approaches in the DSC. The mathematical modeling-based
techniques remain dominant (56% of articles), but AI and ML-based techniques are gaining
traction (used in around 44% of articles). Conclusions: The review findings show insight into
the benefits and implications of optimization techniques in the DSC. This research shows
how optimization techniques are associated with every phase of the DSC and how new
technologies have affected the supply chain.

4. Anitha P and Malini M. Patil, 2018

Anitha, P., & Patil, M. M. (2018). A review on data analytics for supply chain
management: a case study. International Journal of Information Engineering and
Electronic Business, 11(5), 30.
 Application of analytics to supply chain can lead to many benefits like choosing the best
route for transportation, sustainable logistics, shelf space optimization, reverse logistics
process can be made easier by proper tracking of the consignments as most of the time
this process is usually not handled in an efficient way. Analytics helps to automate
logistics; self-arranging logistics makes use of Radio Frequency IDs to track the items.

5. Prashanth R Nair, 2014

Nair, P. R. (2014). Tackling supply chain through cloud computing: Management:
Opportunities, challenges and successful deployments. In ICT and Critical Infrastructure:
Proceedings of the 48th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India-Vol II: Hosted by
CSI Vishakapatnam Chapter (pp. 761-767). Springer International Publishing.

Application of analytics in supply chain is being adapted at a fast pace by many

companies. Analytics on supply chain helps to better understand the data which makes
to take better decisions, predict scenarios, make forecasts about need for products. It
leads to the growth of the company, increase in the revenues earned and ability to stand
out from other competitors.

6. Rohit Kumar Singh and Padmanav Acharya 2014

Singh, R. K., & Acharya, P. (2014). Identification and evaluation of supply chain flexibilities
in Indian FMCG sector using DEMATEL. Global Journal of Flexible Systems
Management, 15, 91-100.
To make the supply chain operations more effective and for better customer satisfaction,
organisations need to evaluate their process and measure the supply chain performance so
that improvement in the process can be made on a continuous basis. Supply chain is a
dynamic function of organisation that changes with time, there are several factors that
influences its performance. Each organisation has its unique supply chain structure so the
critical factors that influence its performance also vary from organisation to organisation. Till
date many researchers have given their insights towards supply chain performance
management. In this paper, we did a critical review of previously done research and find out
the critical factors having their significant impact on supply chain performance. The paper
also made a summary discussion on the performance measurement tools popular among
researchers such as AHP, DEA, BSC, SCOR, etc.
 7. Dominique Estampe, Samir Lamouri, Jean-Luc Paris and Sakina
Brahim-Djelloul 2013

Supply chain management creates value for companies, customers and stakeholders
interacting throughout a supply chain. The strategic dimension of supply chains makes it
paramount that their performances are measured. In today's performance evaluation
processes, companies tend to refer to several models that will differ in terms of corporate
organisation, the distribution of responsibilities and supply chain maturity. The present article
analyzes various models used to assess supply chains by highlighting their specific
characteristics and applicability in different contexts. It also offers an analytical grid breaking
these models down into seven layers. This grid will help managers evolve towards a model
that is more suitable for their needs.

8. Wai Peng Wong 2009

Supply chain operates in a dynamic platform and its performance measurement requires
intensive data collection from the entire value chain. The task of collecting data in supply
chain is not trivial and it often faces with uncertainties. This paper develops a simple tool to
measure supply chain performance in the real environment, which is stochastic. Firstly, it
introduces the data envelopment analysis (DEA) supply chain model in combination with
Monte Carlo simulation to measure the supply chain performance in the stochastic
environment. Secondly, a GA-based heuristic technique will be presented to improve the
prediction of the performance measurement. This methodology offers an alternative to handle
uncertainties in supply chain efficiency measurement and could also be used in other relevant
fields, to measure efficiency.

9. Dominique Estampe, Samir Lamouri, Jean-Luc Paris and Sakina

Brahim-Djelloul 2013
Supply chain management creates value for companies, customers and stakeholders
interacting throughout a supply chain. The strategic dimension of supply chains makes it
paramount that their performances are measured. In today's performance evaluation
processes, companies tend to refer to several models that will differ in terms of corporate
organisation, the distribution of responsibilities and supply chain maturity. The present article
analyzes various models used to assess supply chains by highlighting their specific
characteristics and applicability in different contexts. It also offers an analytical grid breaking
these models down into seven layers. This grid will help managers evolve towards a model
that is more suitable for their needs.

10.Emilie Chardine-Baumann and Valerie Botta-Genoulaz 2014

The introduction of the concept of sustainable development in supply chain management has
been identified not only as a constraint but also as a way to improve performance, impacting
the competitiveness of a company and of its supply chain organization. To evaluate and
analyze the potential relationships between traditional supply chain management practices
and their impact on performance, we propose a framework for sustainable performance
characterization and an analytical model for sustainable performance assessment. The
framework is used to characterize a company’s sustainable performance in the economic,
environmental and social fields. The analytical assessment model, based on the relationships
between a supply chain management practice and the three fields of sustainable development,
serves to produce the sustainable performance profile of a practice, identified by a triad. An
application of this profile to two well-known best practices of supply chain management
allows us to identify their performance from a sustainable development point of view.
Practitioners can easily use the proposed framework for highlighting SCM practices that
impact sustainable performance more positively, depending on their objectives.

11.Ivan V R and Benny T, 2014

Analytics application in supply chain has many benefits few of them being “in marketing
it can be used for sentiment analysis to know about the demand for new trends, in
procurement it can be used for supplier negotiations, in warehouse operations it can be
used to manage inventory space and predict demands and in transportation it can be used
to optimize the routes for the transport of products.”

12. Charles F Nicholson and Mark W Stephenson, 2015

They develop a structural time‐series model based on state‐space methods and including
feed costs as an exogenous regressor to assess the nature of cyclical behavior of the
quarterly U.S. all‐milk price during 1996 to 2014. Although deterministic trend and
seasonal price movements are present, a stochastic large‐amplitude cycle with a period
of 3.3 years is the predominant source of variation in the U.S. all‐milk price during the
period analyzed. These cycles are consistent with the hypothesis that supply chain
managers make decisions based on bounded rationality, with limited supply chain
coordination. The presence of price cycles in the U.S. dairy industry has management
implications for dairy farmers, dairy processors, exporters, and food retailers.
Forecasting and analytical models of U.S. farm milk prices should be designed to
account for cyclical farm milk price behavior.

13.Rahul S Mor, Arvind Bhardwaj and Sarbjit Singh 2018

Dairy industry plays a vital role in enriching the socio-economic status of rural India,
particularly in women empowerment. In general, either a structure or subcomponents of
dairy supply chain is discussed in the literature, but the rational (why, what, how) is
missing. Further, the structured-literature-review (SLR) of dairy supply chain
management (DSCM) practices is scarce. This paper presents an SLR of articles
published in the context of DSCM practices. The paper further assesses the extent to
which the SLR approach can be applied to DSCM so as to produce a consistent
knowledge stock by evolving a context-sensitive study. The key challenges discussed in
reviewed articles are highlighted. Authors selected the articles published in peer-
reviewed journals and categorized the articles published in recent eleven years into three
main subjects of supply chain ie distribution management (DM), risk management
(RM), and decision-making strategies (DMS). The findings of this study show that the
food safety, product quality, and associated economic benefits in dairy industry can be
achieved through technological innovation, eradication of uncertainties, and introducing
the global SCM practices into lean and green initiatives.

14. Z Muhammad, Shumaila Naz Akhter and Muhammad Kafayat

Ullah 2014

The specific objective of this paper is to present the importance of dairy supply chain
management and to illustrate the current practices of diary supply chain in Pakistan.
Specifically, to shed light on the production and consumption patterns in developing
world mainly based on the FAO and Pakistan Economic Survey data. World milk
production was 730 million tonnes in 2011 and it is expected to increase in the future.
Importantly, 80 percent consumption of milk has handled by informal traders in the
developing countries and this community has 98 percent share in Pakistani milk supply
chain. Supply chain disruption has become critical issue that is based on informal
channel bargaining power and information barriers. Currently, India, China and Pakistan
have been standing in the list of four leading producers of milk worldwide. However,
milk producers and consumers both have been facing economic, social and health losses
due to the informal dairy supply chain partners.