We study the demand forecast-sharing process between a buyer of customized production equipment and a set of equipment suppliers. Based on a large data collection we undertook in the semiconductor equipment supply chain, we empirically investigate the relationship between the buyer's forecasting...

Because of international competition, the development of new technologies and the increase of production and energy costs, enterprises must improve their supply chains and change their ways of doing business. They also have to collaborate with their suppliers, distributors and retailers in order...

This work intends to contribute to the planning guidelines in the field of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Thus, it develops a multi-model proposal supported by the definition of a highly complex spectrum of knowledge that considers a sequence of systematic procedures in the following phases –...

Supply chain demand forecast and inventory purchase planning are essential business operations to many businesses. In this paper, we discuss the strategies and techniques in the supply chain demand forecast and inventory purchase planning for small businesses from practitioner's perspective. The...

Increasing awareness of the ecological impacts of industrial growth, resource scarcity as well as changing consumption patterns, has led to the growth of sustainability issues in supply chain practices. The purpose of this paper is to highlight a few areas of possible importance in planning,...

This paper presents a novel approach for solving an integrated production planning and scheduling problem. In theory as well as in practice, because of their complexity, these two decision levels are most of the time treated sequentially. Scheduling largely depends on the production quantities...

Lean distribution networks have been increasingly exposed to the risk of unpredicted disruptions causing significant economic forfeitures. At the same time, the existing literature features a limited number of studies which consider fortification of facilities for improving network reliability....

In this paper a multi-product, multi-echelon location–allocation model for the optimization of a supply chain design is proposed. This model integrated inventory decisions into distribution network design with stochastic market demands. The goal is to select the optimum numbers, locations, and...

We consider an inventory control problem in a supply chain consisting of a single supplier, with a central distribution center (CDC) and multiple regional warehouses, and multiple retailers. We focus on the problem of selecting warehouses to be used among a set of candidate warehouses, assigning...

Adaptive sample size and sampling intervals schemes have been widely used to improve the statistical efficiency of Hotelling T² control chart in detecting small changes when the quality of a product or a process can be characterised by the multivariate distribution of quality characteristics....