Logistics centers play more and more important role in supply chains. Depending on the kind of logistics center they create value both in supply chains and supplier networks. Business-tobusiness (B2B) are quickly becoming one of the major issues for companies in their search for opportunities to...

Supply Chain Management faces a lot of challenging issues involving difficult decisions which can be company-oriented and customer-oriented issues. In this study we deal with customeroriented issues. For example, a customer’s demand may not be fully satisfied from stock on hand and the...

This paper studies a nonstationary inventory and pricing problem. We consider a two-echelon supply chain with one supplier and two retailers, in which the supplier carries all inventory to supply the retailers. Both the reserved and pooled inventory systems are analyzed. Results with normally...

Despite the plethora of literature in sustainability and supply chain management in the recent years, a quantitative tool that measures the sustainability performance of an industrial supply network, considering the uncertainties of existing data, is hard to find. This conceptual paper is aimed...

The rapid expansion of commodity agriculture in tropical forest landscapes is a key driver of deforestation. To meet the growing demand from a more prosperous and expanding global population, it is imperative to develop sustainable commodity supply chains that support higher agricultural...

Virtual integration of supply chains is on the agenda of most organizations as there is a growing need to reduce inventories at each echelon to maximize the value for the ultimate customer. In this context, information has emerged as the most important asset to create competitive advantage. Thus...

Research on supply chain network design has mainly pursued efficiency oriented objectives for boosting service level and profit. However, the priority of an enterprise facing bankruptcy pressure shifts to fulfill debt obligation with limited financial resources and survive downsizing. In this...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is a key business process to match customer demand with supply capabilities in the medium term. Coordination mechanisms play a pivotal role within S&OP to align business strategy and operational planning as well as the involved business functions and supply...

The United Kingdom has twice suffered major disruption as a result of fuel panics first in September 2000 coincident with a wave of fuel protests and more recently in March 2012 following politcal warnings of possible future supply chain disruption. In each case the disruption and economic...

Ports have become a key element of modern supply chains through the important role they play in coordinating material and informational flows. However, because of the fixed nature of port assets, they can rarely control the supply chains dynamics, which are most often affected by the strategies...