Currently companies are looking for solutions to reduce carbon emissions associated with their operations. Operational adjustments, such as modifications in batch sizes or order quantities have proven to be an effective way to decrease emissions. In this paper, a novel model is proposed that...

Market deregulation and growing membership heterogeneity affect the relationship between cooperatives and their members. We study, using a quantitative model, how French marketing cooperatives can develop for their members a set of contracts adapted to their environment. These contracts should...

[fre] L'article s'intéresse à l'impact du e-commerce sur l'organisation des chaînes d'approvisionnement. On identifie tout d'abord plusieurs schémas d'approvisionnement simultané d'un marché physique et d'un marché Internet. Puis, en s'appuyant sur une modélisation des politiques de...

This article discusses the impact of inventory inaccuracy on service-level quality in (Q,R) continuous review, lost-sales inventory models. A simulation model is built to study the behaviour of this kind of model exposed to an inaccuracy in inventory records as well as demand variability. We...

This article focus on the behavior of a (Q,R) continuous-review lost-sales inventory model exposed to an inventory record inaccuracy (IRI). An unusual phenomenon has been observed which runs counter to certain empirical practices in the SMEs based on the principle that safety stock is only...

Planning strategies depend in part on the supply flow structure of a supply chain. In food supply chains, many firms are constrained by raw material supply (e.g. vegetables and milk). This paper first examines the economic consequences of constrained supply in agricultural cooperatives....

Producers and retailers often limit their partnership to the simple implementation of a set of tools (advanced logistic techniques), our purpose was to understand the reasons that govern such choices, but neglecting the essence of the ECR, which is based on active cooperation between suppliers...

Partant du constat que producteurs et distributeurs limitaient souvent leur partenariat à la seule mise en place d'un ensemble d'outils, nous avons voulu comprendre les raisons de ces choix, négligeant ainsi l'essence même de l'ECR fondé sur la coopération active entre fournisseurs et...

The relationships between retailers and producers are considered for understanding the determinants of quality, variety and prices. In the food sector, some issues have been extensively studied: impacts of private labels, supply contracts, price transmission. Despite an increasing role, the...

This paper develops a model of debt renegotiation in a structural framework that accounts for taxes, bankruptcy costs and renegotiation costs. To our knowledge, all the previous work on debt renegotiation implies an infinite number of renegotiations. This feature preempts the analysis of the...