At the Earth Summit (UNCED, 1992), in Rio de Janeiro in June 1992, world leaders committed themselves to a comprehensive programme to bring sustainable water supply and sanitation services to the hundreds of millions of people who currently lack them. All States and support agencies were urged to implement activities aiming for universal coverage outlined in Agenda 21, a strategy for sustainabl...

This paper identifies and demonstrates proven techniques that achieve real cost savings from supply chain management, and provides information on how to apply these techniques in various business situations. Most supply chain professionals have knowledge of supply chain management, but many find serious challenges in achieving actual cost savings from the concept. This paper provides informatio...

Purchasing and supply leaders continually search for ways to improve the quality, delivery, and cost of production inputs. Their participation in these proactive supply chain activities can be a significant driver of purchasing and supply management’s use of information technology (IT). Using a transaction cost analysis perspective, we surveyed purchasing and supply professionals at the directo...

Background and Objectives: A sudden jump in blood demand during natural disasters may have strong negative impact on the performance of blood supply chain. Appropriate response to emergency situations requires predictive approach to determining the optimal allocation of blood supply chain resources for various disaster scenarios. The present study, thus, presents an optimization model aimed at ...

  Most supplier selection models consider the buyer’s viewpoint and maximize only the buyer’s profit. This does not necessarily lead to an optimal situation for all the members of a supply chain. Coordination models have been developed to optimize the entire supply chain and align the decisions between its entities. Little research has been done on the application of these models in the supplie...

This thesis examines mathematical modeling as a means to improve profitability. The research is focused on studying supply chain cost drivers and their potential in regard to cost reduction in the automotive manufacturing industry, where the role of supply chain management is significant because of the capital intensive, fast paced, and high volume nature of the business. Hence, supportive tool...

A supply chain is a set of suppliers, manufactures and distributors, which are linked together. The first chain is a supplier and the last one is customers. What is the most important in supply chain are highquality products by the least cost and the most benefit. In this regard, each input and output and intermediate have unit price and unit cost information. The cost-minimization and the prof...

This paper addresses strategies for improving delivery performance in a serial supply chain when delivery performance is evaluated with respect to a delivery window. Contemporary management theories advocate the reduction of variance as a key step in improving the overall performance of a system. Models are developed that incorporate the variability found in the individual stages of the supply ...

Supply chain management (SCM) is the term used to describe the management of the flow of materials, information, and funds across the entire supply chain, from suppliers to component producers to final assemblers to distribution (warehouses and retailers), and ultimately to the consumer. A case on the supply chain cost has been presented and the optimum cost is found out using numerical method....