determination of shipment quantity and distribution problem is an important subject in today’s business. this paper describes the inventory/distribution network design. the system addresses a class of distribution network design problem, which is characterized by multiple products family, multiple warehouses and retail-ers. the maximum capacity of vehicles and warehouses are also known. the res...

there are many benefits for coordination of multiple suppliers when single supplier cannot satisfy buyer demands.  in addition, buyer needs to purchase multiple items in a real supply chain. so, a model that satisfies these requests has many advantages. we extend the existing approaches in the literature that assume all suppliers need to be put on a common replenishment cycle and each supplier ...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the gap between the planning response goal and the execution outcome in supply chain management. Gaps occur due to the incompetence of supply chain partners in successively responding toward the ever-changing market environment. It is very important to check whether the decision by supply chain partner firms to cut down the level of re-integrated coor...

over the years we have witnessed the growing importance of supply chain operations and supply chain management (scm), as supply chains play a major role in every step of the product life cycle. therefore, this paper will dea-based performance evaluation approaches for overall supply chain can be categorized. future perspectives and challenges are discussed

from the beginning of emerging concept of supply chain, a variety of strategies or paradigms have been developed for supply chain organizations .the most important paradigms are four main paradigms, namely the lean, agile, resilience and green. each of these paradigms has advantages and disadvantages. using the benefits of this paradigms and the plan to eliminate the disadvantages of each parad...

In this work the supply-chain co-ordination in the virtual enterprise environment is subject of analysis. The system developed by UFSC – DBPMS – for the management of distributed business process is presented and some basic concepts for its definition and development are detailed. The DBPMS provides means for getting, analyzing, making available and managing the information from and about a vir...

the strategic pricing decisions of assembly products in assembly products supply chain are studied in this paper. firstly, a two-stage assembly products supply chain model is developed. by building nash game model, the nash equilibrium solution of pricing strategy of supplier and assemblers is obtained. next, a union decision model is built to analyze the optimal combination pricing strategy of...

one of the important decisions which impacts all firms’ activities is the supplier selection problem. since the 1950s, several works have addressed this problem by treating different aspects and instances. in this paper, a combined multiple criteria decision making (mcdm) technique (ea-promethee) has been applied to implement a proper decision making. to this aim, after reviewing the theoretica...

the purpose of this study is identification and barrier analysis for green supply chain management implementation in sirjan's golgohar using fuzzy topsis technique and fuzzy dematel technique. at first, in this study barriers for green supply chain management are identified through literature and survey with experts and the priority processing is doing with fuzzy topsis technique. this study is...