Inventory management is considered to be an important field in Supply Chain Management because the cost of inventories in a supply chain accounts for about 30% of the value of the product. The service provided to the customer eventually gets enhanced once the efficient and effective management of inventory is carried out all through the supply chain. The precise estimation of optimal inventory ...

In recent years, industries increase their flexibility, fasten their response, and enhance concurrent engineering design to react to shorter product life cycle and highly customization. To achieve these prospects, supply chain collaboration becomes a pertinent strategy for industries to strengthen their competitiveness. A well constructed collaboration between supply chain organizations will en...

Supply Chain Management and Cost Management are among the top issues on the agenda of business practitioners and academic researchers. Yet, while this proves the importance of these issues, it does not necessarily point towards their integration. Still, the links between the two approaches exist. Cost reduction is among the most cited objectives in supply chain management. Additionally, if cost...

In recent years, markets and supply chains have become increasingly global in nature. Increased competition has driven the need for more efficient and costeffective supply chain strategies and production methods. Firms have effectively used analytical techniques to develop manufacturing and supply chain solutions at the strategic, tactical, and operational levels. One such analytical technique ...

Increasing globalization, diversity of the product range, and increasing customer awareness are making the market(s) highly competitive thereby forcing different supply chains to adapt to different stimuli on a continuous basis. It is also a recognized fact that overall supply chain focus should be given an overriding priority over the individual goals of the players. Among all the possible ord...

BACKGROUND The need for institutional long-term care is increasing as the population ages and the pool of informal care givers declines. Care services are often limited when funding is controlled publicly. Fees for Japanese institutional care are publicly fixed and supply is short, particularly in expensive metropolitan areas. Those insured by universal long-term care insurance (LTCI) are faced...

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...

This paper is concerned with the estimation of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the Iranian electric utilities during the period 1980-1993 on the basis of panel data. A translog cost function is used which accommodates firm - specific variability through a one - way error component model. The results show that the Iranian electricity supply industry experienced increasing returns to s...

Considerable research has been carried out and literature available in the field of Supply Chain Performance Management since 1990. Different perspectives of Supply Chain Performance Measures are cost and non-cost perspective; strategic, tactical or operational focus; business process perspective and financial perspective. Successful supply chains use integrated measurement systems as a vehicle...

In this paper, the transportation problem under the carbon emission trading program ismodelled by mathematical programming and genetic algorithm. Since green supply chain issuesbecome important and new legislations are taken into account, carbon emissions costs are included inthe total costs of the supply chain. The optimisation model has the ability to minimise the total costsand provides the ...