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...

The supply chain is a system comprising organizations, decision makers, and technology decision policies that is responsible for transforming raw materials into finished products that are delivered to end customers. As expanded upon later in the paper, the supply chain is traditionally characterized by counter-current flows of information and material. Material flows from the raw material suppl...

Supply chain models describe the activities carried out in the process industry. They are used to design and operate complex sequences of tasks that transform raw materials and deliver final products to markets. Many optimization models have been developed for supply chain planning because they offer the possibility of finding strategies that lead to greater economic benefits. The traditional m...

A novel supply chain operational transport planning model is developed in this paper. The goals of the model are to minimize the number of used trucks and the total inventory levels. Because of somewhat imprecise nature of vehicle capacities and decision makers’ aspiration levels for the goals, a fuzzy multiobjective linear programming (FMOLP) modeling approach is adopted. Moreover, an interact...

Within inter-organizational supply chains decentralized planning spheres lead to new challenges for the tracking and tracing of the fulfillment process. Nevertheless, information about progress and delays for instance in production has to be gathered to plan and to control the supply chain activities. Due to decentralized planning there is a lack of central information about structure and sched...

Manufacturing planning and control (MPC) systems play a vital internal role in manufacturing organizations, helping to develop overall and detailed material and capacity plans and schedules. When elements of a manufacturing organization’s planning and scheduling are made known to supply chain partners, the linked companies can improve their respective supply chain performances. This paper revie...

Production planning policies have a direct impact on demand propagation and the overall performance of manufacturing supply chains. The relationship between production planning and supply chain behavior is important because the planning decisions play a major role in determining how demand propagates through the supply tiers. In this paper, we study supply chain demand behavior via computationa...

agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. in addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. the main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...

For manufacturing industries, the integration of business processes from customer-order management to delivery (Supply Chain Management) has widely been received much attention from the viewpoints of agile and lean manufacturing. Supply chain planning concerns broad activities ranging network-wide inventory management, forecasting, transportation, distribution planning, production planning and ...