Recent changes in environmental legislation have focused company thinking on business practices, particularly concerning the importance of integrating environmental concerns like outsourcing and procurement in supply chain networks. Supply chain partners are becoming progressively more...

The coordination of companies in the supply chain (SC) is a pillar of achieving better overall performance. Although often studied, research does not usually take into account the influence of the relationships amongst companies in the supply chain. Marcotte et al. [1] propose a collaborative...

Improving the performance of supply chains is a critical issue in nowadays industry. In that purpose, cooperation between partners motivates a great attention. Technical aspects of current cooperation procedures as promoted by large companies are firstly described, and compared to some real...

Dans les référentiels d'économie institutionnelle, la méso-analyse de filière se diversifie. En interrogeant la genèse du concept de filière et son application par l'économie industrielle, l'économie rurale et les sciences de gestion, dans l'agriculture et l'agroalimentaire, l'article...

This paper outlines some practical problems linked to information exchange occurring in nowadays supply chains, with a special emphasis on the aeronautical sector. The Intelligent Product paradigm is presented as an adequate solution to address some of these problems and to provide rapid gains...

Supply chain configurations, as hybrid governance structures, allow companies to be sufficiently integrated while keeping a certain level of flexibility. This enables them, on one hand, to converge towards common interests through the development of cooperation; and on the other hand, to diverge...

This communication presents a method to support the customer in the choice of a procurement plan when the gross requirements are ill-known, in a context of collaboration with the supplier. A general model of imperfect parameter representation is suggested, imperfection gathering uncertainty...

In an upstream supply chain dedicated to the mass production of customized products, many sources of production instability can be identified: the level and structure of the production of the final assembly line, the variability of lead times, the quality issues, packaging and loading...

The environment complexity in which supply chain members are evolving leads them to adopt opposite strategies in a constructive way. In this sense companies tend to create value by cooperation and, at the same time, capture value by competition. This ago-antagonistic behavior generates a...

In supply chains, which are organizational systems that integrate complex behavioral interactions, partners adopt bipolar strategies that join paradoxical and constructive behaviors to evolve in nowadays environment. This enables them, on one hand, to converge towards common interests through...