nowadays, in turbulent and violate global markets an agile supply chain (asc) network is frequently considered as a dominant competitive advantage for survival. to achieve the competitive advantage, companies must align with suppliers and customers to streamline operations, as well as agility beyond individual companies. there are many definitions and models about agile supply chain and most of...

regarding to the diversified needs of domestic and global customers and various products of domestic and global competitors, importance of agility in supply chain management becomes more important. suppliers have to provide materials and essential resources of manufacturers in a short time without any lead time.in this research, we identified many criteria for agility in sanitation supply chain...

The extant literature on after-sales service support suggests an implicit consensus around the (Pareto) superiority of performance-based contracts (PBC) over traditional time-and-material contracts. However, when product technology is new, a setting in which the vendor possesses superior information on product reliability, there is compelling evidence to suggest that buyers prefer the tradition...

From the beginning, enabling the companies to lower operating costs and to fulfil increasing order volumes has been the main purpose of Supply Chain Management (SCM) systems. However, the current SCM systems though bring some significant input still have issues when it comes to data integration between the stakeholders. Due to this matter, the documentation process also will be very challenging...

Nowadays, creating a blockchain-based system for supply chain tracing is complex task. This paper defines model, graphical domain specific language, and set of tools aimed at helping experts to create blockchain based systems their chains. Starting from representation the chain, solidity smart contracts implementing related are automatically generated by our framework. Small interventions progr...

We introduce a model in which firms trade goods via bilateral contracts which specify a buyer, a seller, and the terms of the exchange. This setting subsumes (manyto-many) matching with contracts, as well as supply chain matching. When firms’ relationships do not exhibit a supply chain structure, stable allocations need not exist. By contrast, in the presence of supply chain structure, a natura...

We introduce and study the range contract, which allows a buyer to procure from a supplier at a prescribed price any amountwithin a specified range. In return, the supplier is compensated up front for thewidth of the rangewith a range fee. This fee canbe viewed as the buyer tradingmonetary value for reduceduncertainty. The range contract generalizes and unifiesmany common contracts, such as fix...

In the supply chain by the composition of the supplier and the retailer, the supplier offers products to the retailer for sales while the retailer affects the sales outcome by his effort which is divided into two dimensions. One is for the short-term sales task and the other is for the long-term sales task. For the long-term development of the enterprise, the supplier wants to inspire the retai...

managing the supply chain plays an important role in creating competitive advantages for companies. adequate information flow in supply chain is one of the most important issues in scm. therefore, using certain information systems can have a significant role in managing and integrating data and information within the supply chain. pharmaceutical supply chain is more complex than many other supp...