Decision-making needs information. Enterprises in a supply chain make daily operating decisions on the basis of available information of demand and supply. The behaviors of supply chain members would be different under information sharing than otherwise. Demand-side information sharing has been intensively explored. However, supply-side information sharing has not been extensively investigated....

Oranges are the dominant agricultural product for Ehime Prefecture, Japan, and farmers can enjoy optimal added value from their production. One of government's motives boosting Japanese agriculture is diversification, which a form chain restructuring aimed at increasing sustainability in chain. The purpose study to map Japan understand characteristics actors its development potential. This rese...

Supply chain management is essential for the success of firms and customer satisfaction. In addition, a suitable performance evaluation system is vital to the effective management of the supply chain. Due to the importance of cost management in the supply chain, an approach based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is proposed in the current study for evaluating the cost efficiency of closed-loo...

We study supply chain contracting with investment in demand forecasting under downstream competition. Supporting some recent industry observations, we show that under common pricing schemes, such as wholesale price or two-part tariff, downstream firms overinvest in demand forecasting. Analyzing the bounds and determinants of overinvestment, we demonstrate that the wholesale price and two-part t...

Abstract On the premise of discrete simulation technology, the study developed a simulation approach to quantify firms’ business operations and performances in a multi-tier supply chain. By careful simulation scenario design and statistical validation, the simulation model was applied to understand one practical business problem, i.e., how to evaluate the business model and its trade-off of imp...

An optimization-based control framework that simultaneously determines the optimal inventory and product pricing policies is developed for multi-product, multi-echelon supply chain networks. The optimization problem aims at adjusting the available manufacturing resources, product transportation, inventories and prices for the entire supply chain network to satisfy demand while maximizing networ...

We develop a theoretical model about how organizations cope with the bullwhip effect created by consumer demand uncertainty through product modularity and information sharing across the supply chain. Unpredictability of consumer demand is likely to accentuate inventory flows in the supply chain. Information sharing and product modularity can be used by organizations to mediate the impact of unc...

Production decisions in a manufacturing supply chain are no longer driven by manual systems based on instinct and experience. They are regulated interactions between analysts, production managers and their collective manipulation of policies within the production information system. This paper studies the demand behavior in manufacturing supply chains and its relationships to the logic of produ...

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been garnering wide attention over conventional fossil fuel-based due to the serious concerns of environmental pollution and crude oil depletion. In this article, we conducted a systematic literature survey explore battery raw material supply chain, processing, economy behind commodity price appreciation. We present significant areas concern, including resource rese...