Supply chain information flow significantly influences material flow behaviour. To improve supply chain performance, efficient information sharing practices are largely recommended. However limited knowledge exists on how companies should choose their supply chain planning approaches and the extent to which information is required. Additionally, current literature does not give answers to the q...

Literature on supply chain management (SCM) covers several disciplines and is growing rapidly. This paper firstly aims at extracting the essence of SCM and advanced planning in the form of two conceptual frameworks: The house of SCM and the supply chain planning matrix. As an illustration, contributions to this feature issue will then be assigned to the building blocks of the house of SCM or to...

Supply chains are networks of independent companies in a dynamic environment. The goal of supply chain management is the coordination of these companies in dynamic environment. This research addresses the decentralized coordination of independent operations planning in order to achieve near-optimal solution. Using a heuristic search with local optimization we coordinate two partners of a supply...

This paper focuses on a negotiation based collaborative planning process for order pattern determination of multi-period planning in a two-tier supply chain scenario. The aim is to study how negotiation based planning processes would be used to refine locally preferred ordering patterns, which would consequently affect the overall performance of the supply chain in terms of costs and service le...

time for business enterprise software in general, and software for optimized supply-chain planning in particular. The spread of enterprise resource-planning software, warehouse-management systems, factory-planning systems, and other enterprise applications, had the side effect of moving online much of the raw data needed to optimize supply chains. Furthermore, the pace of business change, incre...

in the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. on the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...

The article considers the methods of upgrading system cable supply from vessel. controls operation electric motor, through which is unwound reel, and regulates position guide delivers into water. need to create an automatic for laying a ship, will provide minimal deformation consumption, proved. first designed control speed motor that unwinds reel. Adjustment carried out due signal tension sens...

Abstract Many countries engaged in polar research are commissioning and supply vessels (PRSVs), inter alia, Britain's RRS Sir David Attenborough Australia's RSV Nuyina. The prevalent climate change has placed the Arctic Antarctic regions forefront of operations requiring specialist ships to support deploy activities. This study focuses on PRSVs examines potential means assessing their capabilit...

This paper focuses on the latest evolution of information systems for Supply Chain Management. In particular, starting from the observation that Advanced Planning Systems and Supply Chain Management Systems represent a real breakthrough in IT support to Production Planning and Control, the paper briefly shows how IT support has evolved over time both at company level and at supply chain level a...

In this paper the planning of closed loop supply chains is studied where both. forward and return flows are integrated considering their simultaneous coordination. The product supply and returns are then considered explicitly at the planning level of the supply chain optimization. Two different approaches are developed and implemented to model the supply chain optimal planning problem: a discre...