Risk management has become an essential tool in dealing with the risk issues in supply chains. The purpose of this paper lies in surveying the applications of risk management to supply chains and reviewing the existing literature. To achieve the above purpose, some representative works are...

The majority of publications in the extensive literature on resource-constrained project scheduling focus on a static deterministic setting for which a so-called baseline schedule is computed prior to project execution. In the real world, however, a project may be subject to considerable...

This paper develops a coordination mechanism for a supply chain consisting of one manufacturer and n Cournot competing retailers when the production cost and demands are simultaneously disrupted. This differs from traditional supply chain coordination models under a static case and the case with...

It is necessary to provide access to a lot of detailed data needed to implement different processes in the supply chain. Many of them involve more than one entity in the supply chain. Continuous and efficient exchange of information between the parties is a must. Proper information management is...

Due to the shortage of capabilities in research and development of new products, long designing circle and other factors, China¡¯s garment industry has still been accompanied with a traditional supply chain, which is slow in response speed, lagging in logistics and deficient in innovative...

The paper is dedicated to the place of logistics management in the general structure of an enterprise. It states some rules to improve the logistic system through development of logistic management as integral system and through a complex approach, development of a market-orientated logistic...

Rapid development of technologies and their penetration into all sectors generates a wide range of streamlining of production and trade processes. Electronic commerce is the area in which information and communication technology (ICT) is an essential and indispensable element. It is based on the...

This article presents a modern supply chain management objectives and sets of social conditions for enterprises operating in the area of logistics. In the first part of the article, the issue is discussed Applying logistics supply chain management, in reality, followed by consideration as to...

On the basis the elementary theory of supply chain management, the features and problems in the supply-chain management of flowers in Yunnan Province are analyzed. The problems include poor image of flowers caused by low-end package, imperfect supply-chain structure, and weak processing section...

E-commerce systems are tools meant to support the supply chain (SC), the quality of which as well as other parts of the e-commerce system largely depend on management processes representing supply chain management (SCM). The optimal way to ensure the success of SCM is to use the methods of...