In a dynamic customer-centric supply chain context, classic forecasting models turn out to have a limited applicability. In order to estimate the key performance indices of these Supply Chains and to facilitate their management, it is necessary to use more elaborate tools such as a simulation. However building simulation of customer-centric supply chains is no trivial matter. It requires the el...

Major changes have been occurring almost unnoticed in staple value chains in Asia. The Quiet Revolution in Staple Food Value Chains documents and explains the transformation of value chains moving rice and potatoes between the farm gate and the consumer in Bangladesh, the People’s Republic of China, and India. The changes noted are the rapid rise of supermarkets, modern cold storage facilities,...

The information revolution is drastically reshaping global society and pushing the world toward information based economy. Commercial activities such as information gathering, shopping, trading, collaboration, and distribution are changing, and companies are forced to adapt their strategies. The importance of information and communication technology (ICT), especially of the Web, in the travel a...

Purpose. To identify organizational, operation, and development peculiarities of the global value chains in chemical industry. Methodology. Tools analysis synthesis, generalization scientific abstraction were applied to classify world economy branches terms indices chain length its geographical distribution while determining features organization context paint coatings sector industry; static, ...

in this paper a first step in classifying the fuzzy normalsubgroups of a finite group is made. explicit formulas for thenumber of distinct fuzzy normal subgroups are obtained in theparticular cases of symmetric groups and dihedral groups.