Supply Chain operation is an integrated business process starting from primary supplier to end user and the process produce products, services and information. A successful chain will explore technology, lean operations, and quality management by adding value for customers and stakeholders. It is a strategic alliance among the partnering enterprises without geographical boundary. Every chain ha...

blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

In production planning (PP) periods with excess capacity and growing demand, the manufacturers have two options to use the excess capacity. First, it could do more changeovers and thus reduce lot sizes, inventories, and inventory costs. Second, it could produce in excess of demand in the period and build additional inventory that can be used to satisfy future demand increments, thus delaying th...

todays, improving the competitiveness of companies and rapidly responding to diverse customers’ demands requires efficient management of the supply chain. integration is one of the effective indices in a supply chain, and vendor managed inventory (vmi) is one of the innovative approaches in this field. in this paper, an integrated model based on a vmi system for deteriorating and ameliorating i...

Supply chain demand prediction plays a very important role for enterprises to realize sales and markets management target effectively, especially for fresh agricultural product enterprises. A new model for supply chain demand prediction for fresh agricultural product enterprises is presented based on improved BP neural network. First the advantages and disadvantages of BP neural network algorit...

Supply chain management system is a network of facilities and distribution entities: suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers. The control system aims at operating the supply chain at the optimal point despite the influence of demand changes. In this paper, a centralized constrained receding horizon controller applying to a supply chain management system consist of two product, one pla...

For decades, the Beer Game has taught complex principles of supply chain management in a finished good inventory supply chain. However, services typically cannot hold inventory and can only manage backlogs through capacity adjustments. We propose a simulation game designed to teach service-oriented supply chain management principles and to test whether managers use them effectively. For example...