Managing inventories is difficult for a seller who faces uncertainty about future demand for its products. Unexpectedly low demand for a product leads to wasted investment in inventory and subsequent markdowns. Conversely, unexpectedly high demand leads to stockouts and the resulting opportunity...

The dominant models of supply chain management have a strong product orientation, with service supply chain models only starting to appear. The technologies used in existing supply chains generally aim at improving production and logistical operations by increasing their efficiencies and by...

The adoption of data capture technologies such as RFID could result in real interactivity and customer centric global services supply chains or could flood companies with data on top of the mountains of data already collected, stored, underutilized and underexploited. The paper suggest a...

Traditionally, much of the research attention in the study of global supply networks has focused on the material or product flows and also on the relevant information flows. Much less central to the study of supply chain management has been the issue of financial flows. This paper considers a...

We consider the price-setting newsvendor model where the ordering and pricing decisions have to be made at the beginning of a selling period before demand is realized. Unsatisfied demand is lost and excess inventory has to be salvaged. The standard approach is to assume stochastic demand to be...

The ability to redefine inter-firm relationships and processes, internet-enabled and other Business to Business (B2B) mechanisms facilitate the integration and management of inter- or intra-organisational business processes that produce value for customers. B2B e-commerce in supply chain...

Livestock production, especially dairy, has long been an important activity for smallholder and resource-poor farmers in India, both for household nutrition and income. Most of the livestock are kept in mixed farming systems, where crop residues, mainly cereal straws have been an important feed...

Supply-chain management (SCM) is considered one of the essential parts of international marketplaces. SCM comprises a number of paradigms such as Lean, Agile, Resilient, and Green (LARG). This research explains that an advanced manufacturing technology has a significant effect on the...

We investigate the phenomenon of sourcing co-created products. Specifically, we study how a multi-product downstream firm should source from the upstream market, that is single-source versus multi-source, in a situation where the products are co-created with the suppliers. We conceptualize...

Does sharing market information help channel partners to buildstronger mutual relationships? Is low initial trust really animpediment for further relationship development by means ofinformation sharing? How do connections with other competingchannel partners affect the relationship building...