We address the value of information (VOI) and value of centralized control (VCC) in the context of a two–echelon, serial supply chain with one retailer and one supplier that provides a single perishable product to consumers. Our analysis is relevant for managing slow moving perishable products with fixed lot sizes and expiration dates of a week or less. We evaluate two supply chain structures. ...

The aim of this paper is to choose the effective selling channel and reverse for a closed-loop supply chain (CLSC) with e-commerce. authors formulated six single-selling dual-selling two-period CLSC models in which manufacturer manufactures new products first period then collects used by itself, outsourcing or cooperating retailer second period. Some interesting insights obtained from compariso...

a comprehensive and integrated study of any supply chain (sc) environment is a vital requirement that can create various advantages for the sc owners. this consideration causes productive managing of the sc through its whole wide components from upstream suppliers to downstream retailers and customers.  on this issue, despite many valuable studies reported in the current literature, considerabl...

In this paper, we study a production-inventory systems with finite production capacity and fixed setup costs. The demand process is modeled as a mixture of a compound Poisson process and a constant demand rate. For the backlog model we establish conditions on the holding and backlogging costs such that the average-cost optimal policy is of (s, S)-type. The method of proof is based on the reduct...

Limited natural resources and unconscious consumption have led to a substantial increase in the rate of processing waste material instead raw materials recent years changed dynamics Supply Chain Management (SCM) by making industrial environment more competitive. The interest Closed Loop (CLSC) design optimization is increased with great care being taken reverse logistics order respond customer ...

We study a two echelon supply chain with AR(1) demand and unit replenishment lead-times. Each echelon of the supply chain uses conditional expectation to generate MMSE forecasts. Both echelons use these forecasts inside the “Order-Up-To” policy to generate replenishment orders. We investigate 3 different scenarios: The first is when each echelon aims to minimize their own inventory holding and ...

A production planning approach is addressed in this paper for multi-period, multi-product and multi-route production environment considering backlogs and lost sales. When the production capacity or order demand fluctuates, it could lead to a low utilization of the production resource if considering the production system as a whole. Hence, each production stage and inventory is depicted separate...