Spurred by intensifying competition in global markets, most companies have been increasingly implementing supply chain management (SCM) and information systems (IS) practices. As well, globalization policies have created a more intensive competition amongst manufacturers; in additional the priority of supply over demand, market competition and importance of some factor such as quality, accounta...

This study considers a combination of cross-docking and vehicle routing problem (VRP) approachesto transport raw material and parts in a supply chain. The supply chain is composed of some supplierswhich are spread in different geographical zones and multiple shared vehicles with different speedsand capacities for transporting orders from the suppliers to a manufacturer. After ...

The Vector Perturbation Approach is introduced for addressing the generalized parts grouping problem, identifying part families for a general set of suppliers, not just a single supplier. This method is driven by the need for flexible and lean supply chain systems. A vector space model is used to represent a set of operation sequences as opposed to the traditional matrix and integer programming...

We describe a board game in which students assume the roles of supply chain enterprises and move game pieces (e.g. Legos, Velcro, etc.) that represent the parts of a basketball hoop. They then assemble these parts and form the final product and sell it to the customers. The game is the first of its kind to illustrate the concepts of shortage gaming, synchronization of the flow of parts, demand ...

The importance of capacity expansion decisions to lift constraints in parts of supply chains has increased significantly in recent years due to general ever-increasing performance requirements. Within a supply chain, insufficient capacity gradually leads to deteriorating delivery performance, and as a consequence, lowers revenue and market share. However, supply chain capacity expansion decisio...

We address how to configure the supply chain for a new product whose design has already been decided. The central question is to determine what suppliers, parts, processes and transportation modes to select at each stage in the supply chain. There might be multiple options to supply a raw material, to manufacture or assemble the product, and to transport the product to the customer. Each of the...

We present here a methodology for determining the benefits that can accrue from efforts to enhance data quality relative to the cost of those efforts. The methodology proposes a Data Enhancement Index (DEI) which is a vector sum of measurements of aggregate properties of a legacy data collection along three axes. The first axis measures the current state of the business process that the data co...

In this paper, the competition between two supply chains and their elements is studied. Each chain consisted of a manufacturer and a distributor and the two chains compete in a market with single type of customer sensitive to price and delivery time. Therefore, this is a two-supply chain game and during the competition between two supply chains, elements of each supply chain (manufacturer and/o...