Mathematical optimization has become an important supply chain management tool for any contemporary enterprise. Increasing profit margins through better design, planning, and operative decisions across the supply chain represents a huge opportunity in the more than ever competitive economic market, especially in a global scale. Industrial and academic researchers have been working intensively i...

This paper addresses the synchronization of a supply chain with two different production processes through improving the visibility to downstream plans. Dynamic demands and hard competitive situation make it increasingly necessary for companies in the food supply chain to seek for efficiencies and more responsive modes of operation. In this study it is studied how the different supply chain pla...

In this paper the benefits of RFID technology in the specific environment of the Supply Chain of renewable resources are examined. Due to their natural growth the production planning and the Supply Chain Management is faced with some uncertainties which differ from conventional Supply Chains. We will show how RFID can be applied to natural resources and how the whole Supply Chain can benefit fr...

We study the strategic design of a supply chain for new products. Planning a supply chain for a new product requires addressing both uncertainties in demand and cost and changes in market conditions over time. We develop a mathematical programming model for new products that includes both financial viability and robustness relative to uncertainty. An example based on a Fortune 200 company’s eff...

one of the most important decisions in supply chain network (scn) design is choosing the optimal location for the facilities. the facilities in scn have different efficiency according to their locations. in this paper, efficiency of facilities is added to the supply chain network design by using data envelopment analysis model, and a multi-objective model is presented for the design of efficien...

This paper is focused on the tactical design of steel supply chain (SSC). A general mathematical model is proposed to integrate production and transportation planning in multi-commodity SSC. The main purpose is to prepare a countrywide production and distribution plan in an SSC with three layers consisting of iron ore mines as suppliers, steel companies as producers, and subsidiary steel compan...

Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO) supply chain not only provides one of the best opportunities to reduce cost of operation and increase productivity but also offers complex challenges such as end to end integrated planning, increased availability of assets, inventory optimization and effective spend management. This paper gives an overview of the challenges faced in MRO supply chains and ...

A trend in up-to-date developments in supply chain management (SCM) is to make supply chains more agile, flexible, and responsive. In supply chains, different structures (functional, organizational, informational, financial etc.) are (re)formed. These structures interrelate with each other and change in dynamics. The paper introduces a new conceptual framework for multi-structural planning and ...

the manufacturing organizations today are having a competition of supply chain versus supply chain. existing research work fails to relate human metrics with supply chain performance. the authors intend to empirically assess the effects of human metrics on supply chain performance in the context of indian manufacturing organizations. a rigorous literature review has identified 12 variables. the...

The paper presents simulation-based methodology for analysis and optimisation of multiechelon supply chain planning policies over the product life cycle. It is aimed to analyse an efficiency of a specific planning policy at the product life cycle phases and to optimise the cyclic planning policy at the product maturity phase. Specific software prototypes and applications are described in the pa...