[fre] In consumer goods industries, and more particularly in food industry, final demand is more variable. This variability concerns principaly the sales, which levels are fluctuating on short-range. To allow to organize the production's and the distribution's operations, with a reduction of...

[eng] Nowadays the network firm appears as an alternative model for vertical integration. It is constantly in touch, for numerous exchange relationships, with partners in the economy, among which PME are often to be found. Both flexible and adaptable, the network firm so thoroughly combines a...