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...

To be able to cope with the requirements of today’s competitive and demanding digital world of business, companies, especially SMEs, need to be more agile, and be ready to react to the changing requirements of the sector. This requires a better view and a more comprehensive analysis of the whole marketplace which can be achieved through a knowledge oriented collaborative supply chain planning i...

nowadays, many organizations deal with increasing competition and environmental uncertainty, which caused by innovations in technologies and customer needs change. in term of this condition and environment, old and traditional methods in supply chain has lost their efficiency. on efficient method in this regard is leagility. thus, to model the leagility of supply chain , numbers of research was...

A supply chain is a worldwide network of suppliers, manufactures, warehouses, distribution centers, and retailers through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, and delivered to customers. In recent years, a new system approach for managing the supply chain at the tactical and operational levels has emerged. It views a supply chain as composed of a set of intelligent (software) agents, ...

a comprehensive and integrated study of any supply chain (sc) environment is a vital requirement that can create various advantages for the sc owners. this consideration causes productive managing of the sc through its whole wide components from upstream suppliers to downstream retailers and customers.  on this issue, despite many valuable studies reported in the current literature, considerabl...

this paper is a research on the ordering planning of a supply chain with one supplier, multi buyer and multi deteriorating items. items have fixed life time and expire dates. the ordering period is taken as variable and must be computed the proposed models. the problem is studied via two different approaches the first is the joint replenishment, based on the hwang and chew's model [3] and ...

S. G. Deshmukh Director, IIITM Gwalior, New Delhi, India [email protected] This article proposes a methodology for supply chain planning in small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The proposed framework integrates the use of selected well-proven techniques such as quality function deployment (QFD), interpretive structural modeling (ISM), analytic network process (ANP), and zero one goal p...

In this study, we examine the fundamental components of RFID technology in a comprehensive supply chain strategy that directly support the effectiveness and efficiency of supply chain management. We examine the appropriate business processes affected by the RFID technology, the required planning and examination for successful implementation, and many potential impacts on effectiveness and effic...

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...

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...