Keyword: supply & supply chains

Found 1193 papers in total
Mechanism Design for Capacity Planning Under Dynamic Evolutions of Asymmetric Demand Forecasts
2013,
This paper investigates the role of time in forecast information sharing and decision...
Selling to Conspicuous Consumers: Pricing, Production, and Sourcing Decisions
2012,
Consumers often purchase goods that are ‘hard to find’ to conspicuously...
Fee‐for‐Service Contracts in Pharmaceutical Distribution Supply Chains: Design, Analysis, and Management
2012,
Fee‐for‐service (FFS) contracts, first introduced in 2004, dramatically...
Identifying productivity indicators from business strategies' surveys
2012,
This study aims to identify suitable productivity indicators derived from a firm's...
An application of analytic network process for selection of a plant location: a case study
2012,
Location decision is considered to be one of the strategic decisions in the fields of...
A simulation study on strategy to mitigate leadtime uncertainty risk in the context of information sharing
2012,
Lead time is an inseparable factor of any supply chain. Lead time uncertainty is known...
A Model‐Based Approach and Analysis for Multi‐Period Networks
2013,
The aim of this contribution is to address a general class of network problems, very...
Managing Dynamic Inventory Systems with Product Returns: A Markov Decision Process
2013,
This paper presents a Markov decision process for managing inventory systems with...
A hybrid population heuristic for the heterogeneous vehicle routing problems
2013,
The heterogeneous vehicle routing problem (HVRP) plays an important role in supply...
A hybrid Delphi‐SWOT paradigm for oil and gas pipeline strategic planning in Caspian Sea basin
2012,
The Caspian Sea basin holds large quantities of both oil and natural gas that could...
The effect of transaction costs, payment terms and power on the level of raw materials inventories
2011,
This paper proposes and tests an explanation for the level of raw materials...
Safety hazard and time to recall: The role of recall strategy, product defect type, and supply chain player in the U.S. toy industry
2011,
This research identifies and tests key factors that can be associated with time to...
Service Commitment Strategy and Pricing Decisions in Retail Supply Chains with Risk‐Averse Players
2012,
We study the service commitment strategy and pricing decisions in a...
E‐procurement Service Provider Selection–An Analytic Network Process‐Based Group Decision‐Making Approach
2012,
E‐procurement is used by companies as a tool to reduce procurement costs, bring...
A heuristic approach to the design of fortified distribution
                    networks
2013,
Lean distribution networks have been increasingly exposed to the risk of unpredicted...
Agent‐enabled service‐oriented decision support systems
2013,
The design of Decision Support Systems have recently emphasized web enablement as the...
Selecting malaria interventions: A top‐down approach
2013,
Malaria continues to be a great burden on both morbidity and mortality as well as...
Formal Vulnerability Assessment of a maritime transportation system
2011,
World trade increasingly relies on longer, larger and more complex supply chains,...
The roles of ICT in driverless, automated railway operations
2013,
Transportation plays an important role in building supply chains; several emerging...
Chosen aspects of logistics network design method for production service companies
2013,
This paper introduces the method of designing logistic network for manufacturing...
Implementing collaborative practices in the healthcare supply chain: insights into hospital‐vendor operations
2013,
The paper discusses the characteristics of healthcare supply chains, and puts...
An integrated retail space allocation and lot sizing models under vendor managed inventory and consignment stock arrangements
2013,
In this paper, we develop integrated retail shelf space allocation and inventory...
Strategic analysis of technology and capacity investments in the liquefied natural gas industry
2013,
Energy plays a fundamental role in both manufacturing and services, and natural gas is...
Coordination of advertising in supply chain management with cooperating manufacturer and retailers
2013,
Cooperative (co‐op) advertising is a promotion mechanism widely used by...
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