In current global competitive market, manufacturers must set up an efficient supply chain and network to cut cost. Each company aims to supply the right quantity of products to customer in right place and at right time with right cost. Each supplier must respond to the short life-cycle and quick response need for the terminal products. To satisfy the varying customer demand is one of the most i...

The offshoring of software development is over three decades old and has been at the leading edge of the offshoring of information technology services. Over the past decade, the pace of offshoring has dramatically increased due in large part to new communication technologies and the opening up of India. This report discusses the evolution of software’s globalizing supplychain. It argues that hi...

The EECOMS Project is a multi-company and university joint effort to research and develop intelligent, dynamic technologies for integrating supplychain planning, scheduling, and execution and for enabling the evolution of such multi-enterprise integration solutions. In this paper, we describe several critical challenges to enterprise integration in the form of "lessons learned" by the Project i...

The Joint Replenishment Problem (JRP) is a fundamental optimization problem in supplychain management, concerned with optimizing the flow of goods from a supplier to retailers. Over time, in response to demands at the retailers, the supplier ships orders, via a warehouse, to the retailers. The objective is to schedule these orders to minimize the sum of ordering costs and retailers’ waiting cos...

We consider a multi-level aggregation problem in a weighted rooted tree, studied recently by Bienkowski et al. [7]. In this problem requests arrive over time at the nodes of the tree, and each request specifies a deadline. A request is served by sending it to the root before its deadline at a cost equal to the weight of the path from the node in which it resides to the root. However, requests f...

Managerial changes are necessary for companies in the Dutch food industry and agribusiness to lessen the environmental impact of their activities. To identify the opportunities or limits of environmental management systems (EMSs), it is important to first understand what influence stakeholders have on EMS development. In an empirical research we found that developmental levels of internally ori...

Modern electronic commerce creates significant challenges for decision-makers. The trading agent competition for supply-chain management (TAC SCM) is an annual competition among fully-autonomous trading agents designed by teams around the world. Agents attempt to maximize profits in a supplychain scenario that requires them to coordinate Procurement, Production, and Sales activities in competit...