Coordination, Collaboration and Integration for Supply Chain Management

Andreas Hammer Enabling Successful Supply Chain Management Coordination , Collaboration , and Integration for Competitive Advantage

Comparison and Supply Chain Optimization for Vendor-Buyer Coordination System

Here, we consider single vendor-buyer model with multi-product and multi-customer and multi-facility location-production-distribution problem. It is assumed that the players of the supply chain are coordinated by sharing information. Vendor manufactures produce different products at different plants with limited capacities and then distribute the products to the consumers according to determini...

Robust supply chain coordination modeling: A revenue management perspective

The revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. The fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. The output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...

Integration Middleware for Mobile Supply Chain Management

According to the mobile supply chain management features and considering the limitations and obstacles in the mobile environment. This paper proposes a multi-agent integration middleware for mobile supply chain management, aiming to solve information integration and data synchronization problem without worrying about network or terminal heterogeneity in mobile environment, which can achieve mob...

The knowledge of coordination for supply chain integration

Increasing competition due to market globalisation, product diversity and technological breakthroughs stimulates independent firms to collaborate in a supply chain that allows them to gain mutual benefits. This requires the collective know-how of the coordination mode, including the ability to synchronise interdependent processes, to integrate information systems and to cope with distributed le...