The research work on supply-chain management has primarily focused on the study of materials flow and very little work has been done on the study of upstream flow of money. In this paper we study the flow of money in a supply chain from the viewpoint of a supply chain partner who receives money from the downstream partners and makes payments to the upstream partners. The objective is to schedul...

In recent researches, vendor managed inventory (VMI) policy is rarely considered for deteriorating items.   This study considered the supply chain partner’s collaboration via a VMI system and provided an EOQ model for a two-level supply chain (single supplier - single retailer) to examine the inventory management proceedings for VMI and non-VMI supply chains. By a new approach in modeling, the ...

Due to the highly complex nature of a dynamic supply chain, modeling and analyzing of supply chain processes using formal and quantitative approaches is a challenging task. Modeling and analysis of such a complex system is crucial for performance evaluation and for comparing competing supply chains. Since today's manufacturing enterprises are more strongly coupled in terms of material, informat...

corporate image is an important organizational resource that enables to create, strengthen and sustain competitive advantage. different antecedents have been identified for corporate image in the literature including quality of products and services, consumer consideration or distribution system. green supply chain management appears to be an antecedent of corporate image too. this study examin...

according to gas development in most provinces in recent years and the expansion of gas transfer pipeline in parallel, paying attention to project supply chains and related risks is necessary more than past. due to specific structure of project supply chain based on government regulations, this article is aimed at presenting a model to mitigate risks on projects supply chain in state gas compan...

Supply chain planning is critical in semiconductor manufacturing with its expensive production facilities, expensive inventory and usually expensive logistics. Simulation provides a powerful technique to study supply chain dynamics and evaluate options for supply chain planning and control. However, detailed simulation models of semiconductor supply chain can be computationally quite intensive....

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...

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...

This paper proposes a novel simulation-modeling framework that combines discrete-event simulations with system-dynamics simulations. The former represents both operational processes inside of a supply-chain, and the later represents management environment outside of a supply-chain. Further, the paper also discusses modeling capabilities of the proposed framework for supply-chain systems in real...