This research has been conducted to recognise the fact that SMEs still need to acquire knowledge regarding the export process when they decide to internationalise their operations.

This research is to show the role of social sustainability and responsibility in supply chain that effects the stakeholders and add value to the community.

In the current turbulent business environment, uncertainties often occur in unexpected ways. This causes difficulties for the firm to meet most of its customer demand.

Businesses nowadays are all-the-more challenged to manage and reduce the mismatch between supply and demand. The growth of businesses’ footprints, globalization, emerging markets, economic downturn and the rise of competition, are jointly challenging the supply chains of firms by extending them and adding complexity.

Communication and information sharing is vital between buyer and supplier, but what should be shared, when, and through which channel?

Offsite construction techniques (OSTs) are regarded by many academics, the government and industry organisations that are the future of the construction industry, as the industry is seeking for ways to ameliorate in terms of the construction project’s duration, cost, productivity and sustainability.

Industry 4.0 – the fusion of the physical and the digital world in cyber-physical systems. Its proponents predict disruptive innovation in many fields. The opportunities and potential impacts are controversially discussed in theory and practice.

The predominant way of exercising an investment appraisal is a purely financial approach, but such a procedure ignores the effect of strategic investments on the competitiveness of a firm.

The advent of the ‘cyber-physical’ age has been popularised by German policy makers at Industry 4.0, the 4th industrial revolution. It is predicted by various groups that Industry 4.0 has huge potential to improve a company’s competence

Culture of businesses started to give their places to supply chains through the end of previous century. Now, as all other industries, companies in construction industry are aware of this fact and work on this way for the complete success of their supply chains.

Transport collaboration is claimed by many as the solution to the expectations of a market which asks for quicker, reliable, cheaper and environmental-friendly deliveries.

A design-driven company is in constant development of varied products to cater diverse customer demands. Outsourcing manufacturing functions enables focus on competitive advantages, thereby reducing the cost of the activities. However, the organisation still holds an important cost centre in inventory.

In current times, the concept of sustainability has become a major requirement for nations and businesses to remain competitive and relevant globally. Even consumers are aware of the need to have sustainable activities.

Businesses are facing increasingly difficult challenges in order to meet customer needs. Improving the performance of the supply chain is a pivotal target to achieve in order to overcome such challenges.

The current widely implemented linear supply chain, which follows the take-make-consume dispose consumption pattern, suffers from a number of shortcomings from both business and environment perspectives.

The current widely implemented linear supply chain, which follows the take-make-consume dispose consumption pattern, suffers from a number of shortcomings from both business and environment perspectives.

The research project presented in this document is based on an improvement opportunity identified at a global manufacturing company, that consists on calculating the actual amount of spare capacity that the company requires in order to cope with the high volatility that characterises the FMCG Industry.

The importance of managing a business as a whole rather than as an individual entity has become important because environments, advances of technology, and globalisation of markets have transformed rapidly.

In light of significant environmental issues, the circular economy has triggered increasing discussion these years.

Current research, offshoring and reshoring decisions have been comprehensively analysed in relation with the strategic functional logistics.

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) was introduced to companies in order to enable them to achieve internal integration and interaction between the different functions.

In order to achieve competitive advantage organizations are facing the challenge to operate globally and position their assets choosing the best location for some of their manufacturing operations.

It can be argued that theory not only interprets our real life but also gives contributions to the advancement of a research field.