Globalisation in the 21st century has forced modern manufacturing enterprises into tough competitions. Tremendous industrial growth in the past few decades has completely revolutionised their older manufacturing strategies, giving emergence to modern concepts. Manufacturing has undergone many evolutionary stages and paradigm shifts in the past. These paradigm shifts have gone from craft industry to mass production, then to computer-integrated manufacturing and to lean manufacturing, and then to agile manufacturing and today to leagile manufacturing.
These new strategies enable enterprises to survive in the existing environment of fierce competition laid down by their competitors. The requirement of faster delivery within the due date, ability of being flexible to the fluctuation of demand, and to meet the customers’ ever-changing expectations are some of the prime motivations that have provoked manufacturing enterprises to look for the best available alternatives and to implement them in their daily manufacturing practices. The emerging concepts of lean, agile and leagile are the outcomes of the difficulties faced by the enterprises during the last few decades.
Recent advancements have shown that the leagile principle has immense potential to counteract the existing complexity of the market scenario. Therefore, leagile principles are today attracting manufacturing enterprises, and researchers are aiming to find their prominent benefits in all industrial sectors.
This special issue invites both theoretical and empirical studies along with case research on topics that are specific to the leagile supply chain setting and which can have useful managerial impact.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Enablers and barriers of leagile supply chain management
- Supply chain leagility estimation
- Decision-making in leagile supply chain management
- Application of grey set theory in leagile supply chains
- Application of fuzzy set, vague set and soft set in analysing supply chain leagility
Important Dates
Manuscript submission: 31 December, 2014
Notification to authors: 15 April, 2015
Final paper submission: 15 June, 2015
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