The objective of this study is to empirically identify various alignments strategies through various adoption levels between advanced manufacturing technology (AMT) applications and e-commerce settings in supply chain context, and then test what alignment strategies that will have significant influence on supply-chain coordination outcomes. Based on the test result, we can justify the optimal a...

This paper investigates the coordination mechanism for a supply chain with one manufacturer and two competing retailers when the demands are disrupted. This differs from conventional supply chain coordination models under a static case. We will consider different scenarios of the problem: the production deviation cost may be either incurred to the manufacturer or to the retailers; the supply ch...

Supply chain management is a crucial task of managing large organizations. In a decentralized supply chain each member focuses on maximizing his own profit. As a result of it, the conflict between the manufacturer and the retailers will arise. To avoid this sort of situations, coordination model strike a balancing between the profit of manufacturers and retailers. This paper investigates a two ...

the purpose of this article is to investigate a two-echelon supply chain inventory problem consisting of a single-vendor and a single-buyer with controllable lead time and investment for quality improvements. this paper presents an integrated vendor-buyer inventory model in order to minimize the sum of the ordering cost, holding cost, setup cost, investment for quality improvement and crashing ...

In this paper, we consider a supply chain which consists of a single manufacturer and a single retailer with a single product type. Demand is assumed to be dependent on the retailer's stock level. Without coordination, the retailer determines its order quantity to maximize its own profit, which is usually smaller than the manufacturer's economic production quantity. Three coordination policies ...

Because of outsourcing and offshoring, supply chains have become longer and more complex in the past decade, with huge increases in intermediate and final goods destined for manufacturers and retailers in North America and Europe, originating in emerging markets in Asia. While overall costs of procurement have decreased as a result, CEOs and supply managers have also noted a strong increase in ...

In a three stage supply chain composed of one manufacturer, one distributor and one retailer, the supply chain coordination mechanism is studied under a fuzzy demand environment. The market demand is treated as a positive trapezoidal fuzzy number, and the models of centralized decision-making system and spanning revenue sharing (SRS) contract are proposed by the method of the fuzzy set theory. ...

In a decentralized supply chain, with long-term competition between independent retailers facing random demands and buying from a common supplier, how should wholesale and retail prices be specified, in an attempt to maximize supply-chain wide profits? We show what types of coordination mechanisms allow the decentralized supply chain to generate aggregate expected profits equal to the optimal p...

The current economic climate forces businesses to collaborate more frequently and build efficient organizations and supply chains that reduce timeto-market and costs. This chapter argues that an electronic marketplace (eMarketplace) is a promising architectural model to develop collaborative supply chain management and integration platform. It supports coordination mechanisms and integration at...