Quality information acquisition and disclosure have significant ramifications for supply chain members. This paper investigates the interaction between a manufacturer's product quality information acquisition and different quality information disclosure systems in a supply chain wherein the...

We study a monopolist manufacturer who makes new products in the first period and makes new and remanufactured products simultaneously in the second period. The manufacturing and remanufacturing activities in the two-period planning horizon are limited by carbon cap and trade mechanism...

Many governments subsidize the agricultural industry, trying to raise the market outputs either for domestic needs or for export. In many countries, particularly developing countries, the producers' market may be fragmented, involving a large number of farmers with variable productivity levels....

In this paper, we introduce an integrated schedule of order picking and delivery for instant delivery. The schedule of order picking, including order batching and picking sequencing, is formulated considering order delivery by depicting orders' location dispersion. The online schedule of order...

The aim of this study is to investigate whether outsourcing activities in east china are associated with a theoretical framework derived from the literature. By the methodology of Statistics Package for the Social Science (SPSS), the results of survey indicate that outsourcing will more...

We consider a generalization of the classical open shop and flow shop scheduling problems where the jobs are located at the vertices of an undirected graph and the machines, initially located at the same vertex, have to travel along the graph to process the jobs. The objective is to minimize the...

China’s petrochemical industries are playing an important role in China’s economic development. However, the industries consume large amounts of energy and have become primary sources of carbon emission. In this paper, the change in carbon emissions from China’s petrochemical industries...

Inventory inaccuracies are costly and prevalent in many industries. This paper focuses on the impact of RFID technology adoption on supply chain decisions with shrinkage and misplacement problems in the Internet of Thing (IoT). We assume that the supply chain consists of one supplier and one...