This paper studies the impacts of foreign exchange risk and competition intensity on supply chain companies who are involved in offshore outsourcing activities. In particular, we develop a variational inequality model that considers firms’ decision-making regarding pricing, offshore outsourcing, transportation, and in-house production under competition and foreign exchange uncertainty. We also ...

Motivated by the industrial observation that e-commerce platform marketplaces (e.g., Amazon) are increasingly launching sustainable strategies, this study aims to build an analytical framework guide managers on making decisions. This builds a stylized game-theoretical model in supply chain context, where competitive traditional product manufacturers sell their products through platform’s market...

Abstract Nowadays supply chain management has become one of the powerful business concepts for organizations to gain a competitive advantage in global market. This is the reason that now competition between the firms has been replaced by competitiveness among the supply chains. Moreover, the popular literature dealing with supply chain is replete with discussions of leanness and agility. Agile ...

In this paper, bi-level programming is proposed for designing a competitive supply chain network. A two-stage stochastic programming approach has been developed for a multi-product supply chain comprising a capacitated supplier, several distribution centers, retailers and some resellers in the market. The proposed model considers demand’s uncertainty and disruption in distribution centers and t...

With the increased competition in the global supply chain, the significance of vendor selection based on supply chain risk management has reached the agreement. The structure of this study is to categorize the recent researches according to the supply chain risk management, vendor selection and vendor selection under supply chain risk. Further, this paper offers a conceptual framework to summar...

Over the years, competitions have been important catalysts for progress in Artificial Intelligence. We describe one such competition, the Trading Agent Competition for Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM). We discuss its significance in the context of today’s global market economy as well as AI research, the ways in which it breaks away from limiting assumptions made in prior work, and some of the...

Globalization has changed the competitive environment of companies. This paper aims to contribute to understanding the changes a company can face through analyzing the impact of drivers and effects of globalization on the models of industry competition and the company value chain. The boundaries between the forces of competition are fading as economic globalization has led to a new dynamic in t...