A company’s operating capabilities, performance and risk are determined by its supply chain, the complex set of activities spread across internal functions and external partners that together enable it to deliver its products. Supply chains have traditionally been coordinated with...

We have considered a supplier–retailer system, that operates under an agreed coordinated policy, with an imperfect production process and a possibility of having demand fluctuation. In this paper, a dynamic planning process is proposed to deal with short-term demand fluctuations. To do this, a...

VAG—a prototype animated, interactive, three-dimensional virtual environment model of a supply chain in the agribusiness sector has been developed as a CD-based game of strategy. Users (players) have to both create their supply chain by choosing the components that make it up, and then play...

There are three essays on the economics of information technology innovation in my dissertation:1. Procurement contracting strategies in a hierarchical supply network; 2. R and D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies firm level evidence from the information technology...

Disruptions to the freight transportation system are costly due to freight's critical relationship to economic productivity. This research will analyze the current methods of estimating the economic impacts of disruptions to the freight transportation system. A review of existing literature will...

The outsourcing of elements of supply chain processes is now an integral component of the operationalization of a firm s competitive business strategy. While the purported goal of outsourcing is usually to derive a competitive advantage in the marketplace, it is not clear whether the outsourcing...

We live in the age of the informed consumer creating a business climate of increasing competition, which implies that all companies need to be as efficient as possible at every level, and this includes inventory management. For many businesses, inventory is the largest asset on the balance sheet...

Integrated logistics and financial services have been practiced by third party logistics (3PL)firms for years; however, the literature has been silent on the value of 3PL firms as creditproviders in budget-constrained supply chains. This paper investigates an extended supplychain model with a...

Although the development of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has been amazing, it is still in its infancy worldwide. RFID still has to overcome several obstacles such as privacy and security, cost and standardisation. The industry in China offers a great arena for research in this field, as...

We consider a multi-period problem of fair transfer prices and inventory holding policies in two enterprise supply chains. This problem was formulated as a mixed integer non-linear program by Gjerdrum et al. (Eur J Oper Res 143:582–599, <CitationRef CitationID="CR8">2002</CitationRef>). Existing global optimization methods to solve this...</citationref>