Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Management, Islamic Azad University, Tehran -Central, Iran

Abstract

The main aim of this research is recognizing the knowledge management and supply chain as well as specifying a framework to implement knowledge management in supply chain. Supply Chain Management has been evolved over the years indicating going beyond a technical status to a global status at which the concept of operations has been indicated properly. In recent years, many authors used the concepts of both knowledge management and supply chain provided a seminal relationship between these two. Followed by getting to know about the concepts of basic accounts of management, it is believed that the topics associated to knowledge strongly dedicated to Supply Chain Management. The question of research helps to get to know how the analysis of knowledge creation process adapts with supply chain and what the leading factors in such a process are.  This paper has been conducted based upon the knowledge management process using Nonaka matrix.

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