Humanitarian supply chain management has attracted research attention in the recent years. In this paper, an attempt is made to review the status of leading published literature in humanitarian logistics and supply chain management. A literature classification scheme is suggested. The reviewed journals are classified according to research publication, publication year, topics and research metho...

We study a supply chain economy that comprises heterogeneous supply chains involving multiple products and competing for multiple markets. The proposed network model is built upon operation links and interface links, representing, respectively, substantial supply chain operations and coordination functions between the operations. The paper presents a variational inequality formulation of the pr...

In supply chain management, improving the efficiency of the overall supply chain is important. It has been found that sharing information between supply chain members can increase the efficiency of the supply chain by varying degrees in different situations. There are, however, many practical difficulties in sharing information with all the companies in a complex supply chain. This paper presen...

This paper presents a method for modeling the dynamic behavior of harbor supply chains by applying multi-agent systems, and evaluating strategic and operational policies of the harbor supply chain by applying simulation. In views of the order fulfillment, this paper considers the order fulfillment process which starts with receiving orders form the customers and ends with having the finished go...

Today, consumers are increasingly demanding higher quality in fresh agricultural products. The issues that need to be addressed now how keep products and coordinate the operations of supply chain participants. Three decision models developed this paper using Stackelberg model: supplier-led making, retailer-led centralized making. comparative model analysis shows following: (1) Regardless model,...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the impact of strategic transformation engineering order company (ETO) at level internal value-adding chain operations on its position as a sub-supplier. The is motivated and enabled by end-to-end business intelligence related processes revolving around product’s design, configuration engineering. investigation builds case-based research following company’...