Distributor’s selection is an important issue in Supply Chain Management, particularly in the current competitive environment. The current research works provide only conceptual, descriptive, and simulation results focusing mainly on firms’ resources and general marketing factors. The selection and evaluation of distributors generally incorporate qualitative information; however, analyzing qual...

The purpose of the paper is to address the strategic risk issues surrounding Hindi film distribution in Mumbai for a film distributor, who acts as an entrepreneur when launching a prod uct (movie) in the market (film territory ).The paper undertakes a fundamental review of films and risk in the Hindi film industry and applies Grounded Theory technique to understand the complex phenomena of r is...

We analyze the problem of allocating cost savings from sharing demand information in a three-level supply chain with a manufacturer, a distributor and a retailer. To …nd a unique allocation scheme we use concepts from cooperative game theory. First, we compute analytically the expected cost incurred by the manufacturer and then use simulation to obtain expected costs for the distributor and the...

The UAH-78AM is a low-power Hall effect thruster developed at the University of Alabama in Huntsville with channel walls and a propellant distributor manufactured using 3D printing. The goal of this project is to assess the feasibility of using unconventional materials to produce a low-cost functioning Hall effect thruster and consider how additive manufacturing can expand the design space and ...

The vehicle routing problem with time windows (VRPTW) is an important problem in third-party logistics and supply chain management. We extend the VRPTW to the VRPTW with overtime and outsourcing vehicles (VRPTWOV), which allows overtime for drivers and the possibility of using outsourced vehicles. This problem can be applied to third-party logistics companies for managing central distributor-lo...

This dissertation introduces a new business model, called the bandwidth distributor, which is enabled by the introduction of intelligent transport networks. The distributor, a network provider without any transport resources of its own, connects its locations by automatically leasing channels on demand from transport network operators. Based on a channel lease pricing model this thesis presents...

-A first principles model of a gas-fluidized bed has been applied to calculate the hydrodynamics of a two-dimensional (2-D) bed with an orifice in the middle of a porous plate distributor. The advanced hydrodynamic model is based on a two fluid model approach in which both phases are considered to be continuous and fully interpenetrating. Conservation equations for mass, momentum and thermal en...