The poultry industry in India represents a major success story. With rapidly changing lifestyles, affluent culture and a conscious need for general wellness, Indian consumers are now opting for a more protein-rich diet. From a plot scheme, it has made a quantum leap to become as a dynamic industry. The present decade promises to exploit value added products and the global trade avenue. This pap...

Design crowdsourcing is the largest open innovation model that can create value with potential consumers. It offers an opportunity to quickly respond market by obtaining instant designs from crowd, freelancing designers fundamental skills. In addition, it secure globally innovative competitiveness without financial burden, which more effective start-up companies and small medium enterprises (SM...

the revenue management concept and techniques are applied to model the coordination of supply chain elements. the fundamental premise of this approach is synchronization of a group of business entities consist-ing of a manufacturer and multiple suppliers to achieve an optimal supply chain capacity plans. the output of the supply chain can be various products and thus it is measured in terms of ...

In recent years, sustainability concept has been introduced to many fields including management, technology, and supply chain (SC). The most accepted definition for Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) would be one where all consumer products are created, used, and recycled or disposed of in the Closed loop Method. Closed Loop Supply Chain Management (CLSCM) refers to all forward Logistic...

Abstract Supply and distribution management of blood products is a challenging task due to their short lifespan. The problem even more sophisticated considering uncertain demand for these products. This paper addresses integrated inventory-routing in supply chain network consisting single supplier group centers. Transshipment among centers allowed decrease the cost excess inventory shortage goo...

This paper investigates supply chain coordination with side-payment contracts. We …rst summarize speci…c side-payment contracts and present our review on the literature that developed general sidepayment schemes to coordinate supply chains. Following our review, we discuss two criteria that a proper side-payment contract must satisfy, and accordingly introduce a decision-dependent transfer paym...

Consider a multi-tiered supply chain network which contains manufacturers, distributors and consumers. A manufacturer located at the top tier of this supply chain is supposed to be concerned with the production of products and shipments to the distributors for profit maximization. In turn, a distributor located in the middle tier of the supply chain is faced with handling and managing the produ...

This paper presents a competitive supply chain network design problem in which one, two, or three supply chains are planning to enter the price-dependent markets simultaneously in uncertain environments and decide to set the prices and shape their networks. The chains produce competitive products either identical or highly substitutable. Fuzzy multi-level mixed integer programming is used to mo...