Decentralized supply chain management is found to be significantly relevant in today’s competitive markets. Production and distribution planning is posed as an important optimization problem in supply chain networks. Here, we propose a multi-period decentralized supply chain network model with uncertainty. The imprecision related to uncertain parameters like demand and price of the final produc...

As the environmental changing violently, almost all enterprises can’t survive without other enterprises’ cooperation. Many firms have tied with each other and formed an industrial chain structure relationship aggressively called as ‘Supply Chain Relationship’. Therefore, many enterprises had striving for industrial stream integration. With these integration processes, may go through some method...

We analyze competition in product lines by multi-product oligopolists. The firms are assumed to have preferential access to a local market but can supply the rival’s market by incurring distance or product adaptation costs. We show that the width and degree of overlap in the product lines chosen by these firms is greater in large markets and when the products being offered are viewed by consume...

This research considers a fresh-product supply chain consisting of a single-buyer, a single-supplier for deteriorating products where the market demand is dependent on the retail price, fresh rate, and remaining rate. Firstly, in a competitive model, the primary decision variables (i.e., the supplier's wholesale price and preservation-technology investment and also buyer's order quantity and re...

In the era of globalization and outsourcing, Supply Chain Management (SCM) has become one of the leading business strategies for a company to gain competitiveness in the global market. To manage the supply chain efficiently and effectively, many companies realize the need for accurate SCM performance measurement. In spite of existing SCM performance studies, there are two kinds of limitations. ...

A system can only be improved if it is measured. In order to adequately measure a system, that system needs to be mapped and all key inter-nodal linkages, constraints and pathways recorded. Commercial supply chains demonstrate similar characteristics to other systems. Much has been written about mapping supply systems, where typically, the product or service is tracked from the originating sour...

This paper describes challenges faced by companies that form partnership with global suppliers in developing an integrated product. Many experts agree that concurrent product development (CPD) across the supply chain is the next significant challenge in design for manufacturability. Effective management of this process is a key to achieve superior timeto-market and life cycle quality. Drawing o...

Contingency planning is the first stage in developing a formal set of production planning and control activities for the reuse of products obtained via return flows in a closed-loop supply chain. The paper takes a contingency approach to explore the factors that impact production planning and control for closed-loop supply chains that incorporate product recovery. A series of three cases are pr...