We present an analytical tool to identify the optimal supply chain design and resource allocation that integrates supply chain planning with information from management accounting. Using costing data based on Time-Driven Activity Based Costing techniques, an optimization model determines the most beneficial route to market (i.e., with the lowest cost-to-serve) given the resource constraints in ...

Integrating the supply chain is increasingly being advocated as the basis for organizations to realize performance gains in the near future. This paper explores the relationships between IT infrastructure, digitization, resource flow integration in the supply chain, and its consequences for business value creation. Data for this study were collected by a survey of supply chain and logistics man...

This paper reports on an oil/retail petrol supply chain which was undergoing a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) exercise. The paper models and analyses the effect of information sharing on the performance parameters (inventory costs and bullwhip effect) of an actual Serbian oil industry supply chain. The main idea is to show through business process modelling how the BPR of existing process...

In studies on green supply chain, performance evaluation is an extremely important field. It aims to allow the nodes in supply chain to realize their positions and influence on benefit in overall supply chain in order enhance the supply chain. Thus, implementation of effective performance evaluation is the key to enhance green supply chain development. Distribution service industry is the impor...

This research is concerned with the performance behavior of conjoined supply chains, which typically arise in web-based retail. In particular, five performance measures, belonging to three performance measure classes, are used to study the performance effects of various operational factors on conjoined supply chains. The study is accomplished via experimental design and simulation analysis, and...

In this paper, an incentive policy is proposed to coordinate ordering, lead time, and pricing strategies in a two-echelon manufacturing supply chain (SC) consisting of one manufacturer and one retailer. The system is faced with a stochastic demand which depends on both price and lead time. The manufacturer decides on production size and manufacturing acceleration rate while the retailer determi...

Knowledge about customers is vital for supply chains in order to ensure customer satisfaction. In an ideal supply chain environment, supply chain partners are able to perform planning tasks collaboratively, because they share information. However, customers are not always able or willing to share information with their suppliers. End consumers, on the one hand, do not usually provide a retail c...

Product proliferation occurs in supply chains when manufacturers respond to diverse market needs by trying produce a range of products from limited variety raw materials. In such setting, delaying the point helps improve their responsiveness postponing ordering decisions final until there is partial or full resolution demand uncertainty. This strategy can be implemented two different ways: (i) ...

Perspective One of the consequences of customer product returns is that they can increase retail costs and with supermarkets increasing their online and in-store non-food market share, returns are becoming one of the most topical issues in the industry. This paper is relevant to the field of reverse logistics which is becoming a crucial channel within the retail supply chain, involving the inte...