A strategic planning initiative was undertaken to advance innovation in the Canadian construction industry. A preliminary step in this strategic planning process was to carry out an inventory of the current state of research relating to the construction process that was conducted within Canadian Universities. It was found that this type of current research inventory was not often included in st...

In the strategic design of a distribution system, the right number of stock points for the various products is an important question. In the last decade, a strong trend in the consumer goods industry led to centralizing the inventory in a single echelon consisting of a few parallel warehouses or even a single distribution center for a Europe-wide distribution system. Centralizing inventory is j...

The rapidly growing biofuel industry poses considerable challenges to its supply chain network design and operations. In this chapter, we introduce key characteristics of the biofuel supply chain that comprises of feedstock production, biomass logistics, biofuel production and distribution. We then discuss the recent literature on biofuel supply chain models. Using an illustrative biofuel suppl...

In recent years, there are more enterprises that use Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) to gain significant advantages through allowing for An organization to control its business processes and gaining benefits of enhanced process flow, improved data analysis, better profit margins , reduced inventories, and better customer service. ERP considers strong tool for getting competitive advantage fo...

This paper looks at a case study of an Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP) implementation in a geographically dispersed utility company and the approach by middle management to several problems perceived by them to be problematic. Their approach was to develop systems outside the implemented ERP. These are referred to as feral systems and the implication of these in terms of effective bus...

using the mathematic techniques such as fuzzy approach has useful outcomes for production planning in different sources. in this paper lgp1 was used to model the objectives such as: avoidance of shortage or surplus of demand, access to maximum of income, using the normal capacity of production and organizing the inventory of warehouse, within the framework of goal constraints like balancing be...

The success of a product in today’s global marketplace depends on capabilities of firms in the product’s supply chain. Among these capabilities, effective inventory management is a capability necessary to lead in the global marketplace. The chapter provides a discussion of four fundamentals of effective inventory management. First, it requires managers to know how best to use available informat...