Anyone who has worked in a pharmacy over the past few years knows that medication shortages have continued to become more of problem, with no apparent end sight. Because pharmaceutical supply chain is highly complex global enterprise, there are likely quick solutions this growing problem. This often leaves pharmacists and technicians feeling frustrated when trying order medications high demand ...

Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...

Today’s supply chains require more dynamic trading practices to better match suppliers with their customers. Additionally, the purchase decisions faced are rarely made on price alone; but rather on a bundle of attribute values. With ubiquitous computing and Internet connectivity, newer types of negotiation are emerging such as reverse auctions. This paper presents a heuristic algorithm for mult...

With progressing technologies and new features of production, new products compete with older ones in markets. Indeed, new products initiate contest with olden ones and this process repeats in different productions lifetime several times. In this situation recycling the olden products seems to be significant for supply chains. Governments often levy special tariffs for these products as a contr...

More than 200 papers have been published in the last 20 years on the topic of health supply chains (HSC). Looking at the research methodologies employed, less than 15 papers apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) models. This is in contrast to, for example, A Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) Model for Supply Chain Performance Evaluation where several reviews on respective NDEA models hav...

This paper presents a competitive supply chain network design problem in which one, two, or three supply chains are planning to enter the price-dependent markets simultaneously in uncertain environments and decide to set the prices and shape their networks. The chains produce competitive products either identical or highly substitutable. Fuzzy multi-level mixed integer programming is used to mo...