Contents -- Abstracts & keywords -- Guest editorial -- Performance measurement and evaluation of suppliers in supply chain -- Evaluation of the supplier performance using an evolutionary fuzzy-based approach -- Multi-agent architecture for supply chain management -- Supply chain scheduling using distributed parallel simulation -- A decision support system to facilitate resources allocation -- An object-based relational data base system using re=configurable finance and material objects -- Collaborative supply chain planning using the artificial neural network approach -- Reviewers -- Note from the publisher.