Pricing is one of the major aspects of decision making in supply chain. In the previous works mostly a centralized environment is considered indicating the retailers cannot independently apply their decisions on the pricing strategy. Although in a two-echelon decentralized environment it may be possible that supply chain contributors have encountered with different market power situations which...

Since the middle of the 1990’s, the researchers and people within the construction industry have moved towards Supply Chain Management (SCM) philosophy in order to make construction industry more effective and more efficient. The main driver behind the adoption of this philosophy was the successes within other industry sectors. SCM can be defined as network of different organisations, linked up...

The benefit of integrating product design decisions and supply chain design decisions has been recognized by researchers. Such integration can facilitate better communication between design teams and operations groups. Consequently, potential supply chain risks can be highlighted and addressed before the launch of a new product. Modularization is one of the most critical elements for both produ...

Numerous algorithms and tools have been deployed in supply chain modeling and problem solving. These are based on stochastic models, mathematical programming models, heuristic techniques, and simulation. Since different decision problems in supply chains entail different approaches to be used for modeling and problem solving, there is a need for a unified approach to modeling supply chains so t...

Radio Frequency Identification is regarded as the most cutting edge technology for the optimization of supply chain processes in recent years. Researchers of supply chain management have often suggested that the measurement of RFID benefits is very important. This research investigated how the different levels of a multi-level supply chain dynamically behave under the impacts of RFID applicatio...

the present study was focused on supply chain analysis of fresh guava in order to evaluate existing marketing supply chains (sc1: producer - consumer, sc2: producer - retailer - consumer, sc3: producer - commission agent - retailer - consumer, sc4: producer - commission agent - wholesaler - retailer - consumer) for two variety (allahabad safeda and apple guava) of guava. the gross marketing pri...

Abstract: Bi-level programming, a tool for modeling decentralized decisions, consists of the objective(s) of the leader at its first level and that is of the follower at the second level. Three level programming results when second level is itself a bi-level programming. By extending this idea it is possible to define multi-level programs with any number of levels. Supply chain planning problem...

Coordination is considered a fundamental element to achieve a better supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in today turbulent business environment. Supply chain coordination requires that all stages to take actions to maximise the global supply chain profit. Coordination is then an integral part of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. The SCM approach is the systemic strategic coordi...

This study investigates the usage of five electronic commerce (EC) technologies, including electronic data exchange (EDI), electronic fund transfer (EFT), Internet, intranet, and extranet in organizations. Moreover, t-tests and ANOVA are used to verify whether the usage of EC technology differs by firm size (measured by the number of employees and annual sales volume) and characteristics of sup...