It has been recognized that collaboration is one of the key success factors of supply chain management. Enterprises in the supply chain exchange information through orders. In this paper, the supply chain is described as an order chain. Therefore, supply chain management becomes an issue of collaborative order life cycle management. By understanding that information sharing is beneficial in red...

Addressing demand uncertainty is a research focus in supply chain management in recent years. In this paper, a new postponement strategy is applied. Postponement has been appreciated recently, especially in the manufacturing period of realizing mass customization. It has also been much used to respond to the demand uncertainty and usually considered in the planning period. However, the decision...

Over the last several decades, globalization has led to supply chains that have become increasingly complex. Demand for goods and services has exploded in markets that were insignificant just a generation ago. In addition, global sourcing has led to longer and longer lead times on many products, making supply chains increasingly inflexible. These megatrends have made demand forecasting and plan...

Nowadays, supply chain is more complex with the advance of technology. One of the important tasks in supply chain management is product demand forecasting as it provide initial figure for various plan to work on, for example, production, inventory, personnel. The complexity of supply chain makes the traditional techniques become less appropriate. This paper propose an application of Artificial ...

Pricing and advertising are two important marketing strategies in the supply chain management which lead to customer demand’s increase and therefore higher profit for members of supply chains. This paper considers advertising, and pricing decisions simultaneously for a three-level supply chain with one supplier, one manufacturer and one retailer. The amount of market demand is influenced ...

In supply chain management manufacturing flow lines consist of two or more work areas, arranged in series and/or in parallel, with intermediate storage areas. The first work area processes raw items and the last work area produces end items or products, which are stored in a storage area in anticipation of future demand. Firstly managers should analyze and organize the long term production opti...

This paper aims to address supply chain partners' incentives for information sharing from an information systems design perspective. Specifically, we consider a supply chain characterized by N geographically distributed retailers who order a homogeneous product from one manufacturer. Each retailer's demand risk consists of two parts: a systematic risk part that affects all retailers and an idio...

Modern multiagent technology can be applied fruitfully to supply chain or to be more precise to demand chain management. In current research there is not much discussed in this direction because today’s business processes are often characterized more by small solutions than by integrated ones. This paper will prove that this approach offers very new and challenging possibilities to manage deman...