Purpose – This paper proposes an infrastructure of a responsive supply chain network, focusing on the deployment of the m‐commerce technology which transforms a traditional supply chain network to be more effective in coping with market changes. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed...

In this paper, we study a novel network design problem for the fourth-party logistics network (4PLN) to cope with accidental demand surges. A chance-constrained stochastic programming model is established to minimize the overall cost for 4PLN under service-level targets, where the stochastic...