This paper is framed to address the preliminary approach towards process-oriented collaborative inventory management in supply chains, taking advantage of multiagent technology in terms of modeling and simulation. Initially, a SCM support model is proposed as a foundation to combine the supply chain processes with the multi-agent system. In succession, a simple PC assembling case is investigate...

This paper deals with the design of e-SCM for a supply chain of a commercial vehicle company. Two first vendors and two second vendors of the company are included in the objects of developing e-SCM system. We analyzed the information flow and business process between 1st vendor and 2nd vendors. The database (DB) has to be designed for contents of easy access, correction and update, because DB i...

A kinetic study of cadmium and lead biosorption to a brown alga, Kjellmaniella crassiforia, was carried out. The shrinking core model derived by M. Gopala Rao and A. K. Gupta (Chem. Eng. J.24, 181, (1982)) was modified and adapted for description of the rate process of cadmium and lead biosorption to the alga. The biosorption rate process was well described and average apparent diffusion coeffi...

Abstract Supply Chain Management (SCM) in semiconductor manufacturing differs from many other SCM applications in that it has to simultaneously consider both long and short time scale stochasticity and nonlinearity. This paper presents a two-level hierarchical structure for SCM motivated by these considerations. Linear Programming (LP)-based Strategic Planning and Inventory Planning modules for...

We propose a novel agent-based implementation of Festingers’ Social Comparison Theory (SCT). The Social Comparison Model (SCM) consists of connectionist networks that simulate agent-level social comparison processes. Agent networks are combined into a adaptive network structure that is shaped by social comparisons between individual agents. Simulations show how the SCM produces behavior consist...

Combining with the collaborations between business customers and suppliers, traditional purchasing and logistics functions have evolved into a broader concept of materials and distribution management, namely, supply chain management (SCM) (Tan, 2001). This chapter reviews the literature of SCM from several paths that can be the basis of a proposed framework for SCM within academic and manageria...

the objective of the present study was to identify managerial competencies. this study reviewed existing managerial competencies in a cultural context resulting in the development of a broad based psychometrically sound leadership questionnaire. the unit of analysis of the research was a theoretical and experimental research related to managerial competencies, provided from seventeen iranian an...

A single column model (SCM) version of the HadGEM1 is run in weak temperature gradient (WTG) mode, assuming a free-tropospheric temperature profile obtained from the same single column model in radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE) over a sea surface temperature (SST) of 301K. The resulting quasi-steady solutions are compared with climate statistics from time-dependent solutions of the full 3D...

In this paper, a novel image fusion algorithm based on local clarity of spiking cortical model (SCM) is put forward. Firstly, the source images are fused based on local area clarity, and this strategy can keep the focus area of source images. Then, we utilize the SCM to fuse the focus edge of source images. There are five parameters that need to be set in SCM. However, these parameters are hard...