Contractor practices for managing extended supply chain tiers

Managing Supply Chain Disruptions

Given the substantive negative financial, marketing, and operationsrelated consequences of supply chain disruptions, it is not surprising that most organizations are expending significant efforts to develop effective disruption management strategies. Further, the focus on lowcost (and lean) supply chains to control costs has also resulted in magnifying the impact of even a small disruption at a...

'Diamond standard' for managing supply chain.

Green Supply Chain Management Practices

Almost all the countries in the world are considering how they can respond to environmental problems through using eco-friendly processes and products. The supply chain is one of the main drivers causing significant environmental issues such as emissions. As a result, the idea of green supply chains have been consider to address these environmental problems through buyer–supplier alliances. In ...

Managing Environmentally Conscious in Designing Closed-loop Supply Chain for the Paper Industry

High amounts of waste paper are disposed of every year in Iran posing the health hazard and environmental damages instead of being recovered. Collection, recovery and proper disposal of waste paper without damaging the environment need to design an efficient closed-loop supply chain network. The main objective of this paper is introducing a bi-objective, multi-echelon, multi-product and single-...

A Mathematical Method for Managing Inventories in a Dual Channel Supply Chain

  The advent of e-commerce has prompted many manufacturers to redesign their traditional channel structure by engaging in direct sales. In this paper, we present a dual channel inventory model based on queuing theory in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain, consisting of a traditional retail channel and a direct channel which stocks are kept in both upper and lower echelon. The system receives ...