Exporting Costs and Multi-Product Shipments

optimization of closed-loop supply chain, multi-level , multi-product , multi -period to reduce costs in supply chain

today, due to the direct and reverse logistics plays an important role in reducing the costs in supply chain. in this paper, in order to provide a closed-loop supply chain network including supply centers, production, distribution, collection, recycling and disposal of a used linear mixed integer programming. this paper to consider multi-period and multi-product in multi-level supply chain and ...

Trade Costs, Comparative Advantage and the Pattern of Trade: Multi-country and Multi-product Panel Evidence

Globalisation , Productivity and Technology Research Paper 2008 / 12 Multi - Product Firms and Exporting : A Developing Country Perspective

In this paper, we shed additional light on the complex relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs), exporting and economic development by making a distinction between single and multi-product firms. As far as we are aware, the export behavior of foreign firms in a multi-product setting has not previously been considered for a developing country. Using firm-level data for Thailand we s...

Single-Warehouse Multi-Retailer Inventory Systems with Full TruckLoad Shipments

We consider a multistage inventory system composed of a single warehouse that receives a single product from a single supplier and replenishes the inventory of n retailers through direct shipments. Ordering costs are dominated by the shipping costs associated with full truckload transportation with cargo capacity constraints. All costs are stationary. Demands for the n retailers over a planning...

Reducing Product Costs by Efficient Product Development

The challenges of the marketplace are met by product developers in two ways: development of innovative products and reducing product costs. Cost reduction alone is not a substitute for innovation. Cost-oriented product development is systematical engineering work, which requires an interdisciplinary approach, and needs to be efficient and effective. The costs that are of interest here are those...