In last few years, the problem of food safety is becoming bigger while consumers' awareness regarding social responsibility in production, distribution and consumption of food is growing. The main goal for food enterprises is to provide food traceability. This paper focus on traceability systems...

In many industries, product design and manufacturing lead-times are sufficiently long that both the quality level of a product and the amount of inventory produced must be determined before a firm knows what the actual demand will be. In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of such a...

We bridge the currently used practices sale and operation planning into supply demand integration company system. Paper is presenting actual analytical outputs (particular outputs) about company demand and supply integration systems. On this base we formulate recommendations in the form of DSI...

We study the interplay between firms’ information sharing behaviors and cash hedging strategies in supply chains. First, we argue that if an information-sharing channel is built up to guide supplier’s cash hedging strategies, then voluntary market information sharing from retailer to...

Information sharing is the backbone of collaboration in a supply chain. In a B2B environment, partners may share information online using different technologies - the higher the technology sophistication, the higher are its cost and information reliability. We study the interactions between...

This article studies the effects of reverse factoring in a supply chain when the buyer company facilitates its lower short-term borrowing rates to the supplier corporation in return for extended payment terms. We explore the role of interest rate changes, rating changes, and the business cycle...