Essentials for Information Coordination in Supply Chain Systems

Coordination of supply chain inventory systems with private information

Coordination of Supply Chain Inventory Systems with Private Information. (December 2006) Chi-Leung Chu, B.B.A., The Chinese University of Hong Kong; M.B.A., University of New Mexico; M.S., Case Western Reserve University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. V. Jorge Leon This dissertation considers the problems of coordinating different supply chain inventory systems with private information under ...

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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...

A Procurement-distribution Coordination Model in Humanitarian Supply Chain Using the Information-sharing Mechanism

The coordination problem of relief items’ distribution operations is essential in humanitarian relief chains. If the coordination is proper, it will improve the response phase to the crisis. In order to improve the coordination in humanitarian relief chains, distribution and warehousing operations of relief items were outsourced to the third-party logistics. In this paper, the procurement-distr...

Coordination mechanisms of supply chain systems

Supply chain management (SCM) has become an important management paradigm. As supply chain members are often separate and independent economic entities, a key issue in SCM is to develop mechanisms that can align their objectives and coordinate their activities so as to optimize system performance. In this paper, we provide a review of coordination mechanisms of supply chain systems in a framewo...