today, companies need to make use of appropriate patterns such as supply chain management system to gain and preserve a position in competitive world-wide market. supply chain is a large scaled network consists of suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses, retailers and final customers which are in coordination with each other in order to transform products from raw materials into finished goods wit...

This thesis explores the use of different approaches and structures to facilitate coordinating a set of strategic business partners across multiple tiers of a single supply chain defined as the supply network. The study is based on a deductive model of three dimensions of coordination, corresponding to the information, material, and financial dependencies between organizations in a supply netwo...

A revenue sharing contract is one of the mechanisms that coordinate decision makers in a decentralized supply chain toward the consensual goal. The transfer prices between different echelons in the supply chain influence the total supply chain profits. The study aims to explore various transfer pricing heuristics on the supply chain coordination in terms of the supply chain profits and their in...

Supply chains are networks of independent companies in a dynamic environment. The goal of supply chain management is the coordination of these companies in dynamic environment. This research addresses the decentralized coordination of independent operations planning in order to achieve near-optimal solution. Using a heuristic search with local optimization we coordinate two partners of a supply...

In today’s globalized context, enterprise management becomes more and more difficult to master. Market evolution has driven the enterprises to create strategic alliances with both their suppliers and their clients. Since more than a decade ago, it has been widely accepted that market competition is not anymore between the enterprises themselves, but between the supply chains they belong to (Lee...

This paper presents a method for modeling the dynamic behavior of harbor supply chains and evaluating strategic and operational policies of the proposed harbor supply chain by applying multiagent systems and simulation. The multi-agent systems modeling represent business entities as agents and the involved information and material flows with proposed coordination method for collaborating among ...

Supply chain management (SCM) is an emerging field that has commanded attention and support from the industrial community. Supply chain (SC) is defined as the chain linking each entity of the manufacturing and supply process from raw materials through to the end user. In order to increase supply chain effectiveness, minimize total cost, and reduce the bullwhip effect, integration and coordinati...

Customization is a critical success factor in current business environment. One of the most important components that make fast and inexpensive customization possible is electronic supply chain design (e-SCD). e-SCD is a supply chain design which integrates and coordinates suppliers, manufacturers, logistic channels, and customers using information technology (IT). In this study, a model that s...

This paper studies coordination and competition issues in a closed-loop supply chain. The supply chain consists of two competing manufacturers who collect the used-product for remanufacturing through a common retailer. We obtain the optimal wholesale prices, and the optimal fraction of collection for the two cases: case1 (uncoordinated system) and case2 (channel-coordinated system). Furthermore...