Configuring a supply chain for new products involves selecting how to source each stage in the supply chain given several alternatives that vary in cost, lead time, and other measures. One must also determine the best overall strategy for deploying safety stocks across the supply chain so as to buffer against demand uncertainty. Traditionally, this has been done based on costs (inventory cost, ...

Mixed-model assembly systems and modular supply chains are enablers to high product variety. However, as variety gets very high, the assembly and supply processes can become very complex. In assembly systems, the complexity may cause human errors and in turn impacts system performance. The complexity also impacts supply chain configuration and inventory control policy. This paper proposes a uni...

This paper investigates the effects of supply chain absorptive capacity on customization, production innovation, and in turn, business performance. Building upon the organization and strategy literature, we constructed multi-item measurement scales that tap into five dimensions of absorptive capacity, which were adapted to supply chain management context. Using survey-based data gathered from 1...

globalization, increasing the global regulations of governmental and non-governmental organizations and customers’ request regarding to environmental compliance issues have led to organizations considering the green supply chain management to improve the environmental and economical performance. in order to maximize the efficiency of energy consumption and resources across the supply chain, gre...

Consider a supply chain in which a product must pass through multiple sites located in series before it is finally delivered to outside customers. Incentive problems may arise in this system when decisions are delegated to corresponding site managers, each maximizing his/her own performance metric. From the overall system’s point of view, the decentralized supply chain may not be as efficient a...

During the last decade, reverse logistics networks received a considerable attention due to economic importance and environmental regulations and customer awareness. Integration of leading and reverse logistics networks during logistical network design is one of the most important factors in supply chain. In this research, an Integer Linear Programming model is presented to design a multi-layer...

One of the main applications of supply chain management is product tracking. We define it as tracing the product path along the supply chain. In this paper, we propose a solution to track the product while preserving the privacy of the supply chain actors involved and the path traced. More precisely, this solution allows to identify which path a product has taken in the supply chain, without di...

In the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. On the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. Effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...