In this paper, we consider a buyer who designs a product and owns the brand, yet outsources the production to a supplier. Both the buyer and the supplier incur quality-related costs, e.g., costs of customer goodwill and future market share loss by the buyer and warranty-related costs shared by...

This paper investigates the coordination of deliveries between a vendor (or manufacturer) and multiple heterogeneous buyers (or retailers) in a two-level supply chain with a decentralized decision process. A continuous deterministic model is presented. To satisfy the buyers’ demands, the...

The paper discusses the genesis of the 1985 paper “Optimal Pricing and Return Policies for Perishable Commodities,” as well as the critical ideas presented in that research. A brief review of the literature that cited and expanded the results of the paper is also presented.

Supply chain configurations, as hybrid governance structures, allow companies to be sufficiently integrated while keeping a certain level of flexibility. This enables them, on one hand, to converge towards common interests through the development of cooperation; and on the other hand, to diverge...

Le commerce en ligne de produits informatiques apparaît comme une activité en cours de structuration dans laquelle il est difficile de dégager des modèles d'affaires stables et d'en évaluer la performance. Les pratiques des sites de commerce électronique sont variées et plusieurs logiques...

Le concept de développement durable apparaît au début du XXe siècle dans des mouvements écologiques et de protection de la nature. L'expression de ce concept est citée pour la première fois en 1980 dans « La stratégie mondiale de la conservation » qui est l'un des très importants...

Problems of supply chain scheduling are challenged by high complexity, combination of continuous and discrete processes, integrated production and transportation operations as well as dynamics and resulting requirements for adaptability and stability analysis. A possibility to address the...

Much of the construction industry improvement agenda has been focused on achieving integration of the design and construction processes. However, the current approaches do not create an organizational framework to deal with the full integration of the supply chains for component based...