The research studies on types of products and purchase investigation into inventory management of supply chain. We choose cases from domestic manufacturing industry and retail industry to investigate their inventory management models. The types of products separate functional products and innovative products; purchasing orientations divides into buying and procurement orientation. Two construct...

The paper analyses the problem of coordination in supply networks of multiple retailers and a single supplier, where partners have asymmetric, private information of demand and costs. After stating generic requirements like distributedness, truthfulness, efficiency and budget balance, we use the apparatus of mechanism design to devise a coordination mechanism that guarantees the above propertie...

The production routing problem (PRP) considers the coordination of production, inventory, distribution, and routing decisions in a supply chain. In this work, we focus on production routing in the industrial gas business, where the challenge lies in the simultaneous optimization of complex and power-intensive production plants and highly integrated supply chains with vendor-managed inventory (V...

considered supply chain in this article consists of one vendor and multiple retailers where the vendor applies vendor managed inventory. considering vendor as a leader and retailers as followers, stackelberg game theory is applied for modeling and analyzing this system. a general mixed integer nonlinear model is developed which can optimizes the performance of the system under revenue sharing c...

Since 90s, the healthcare sector has changed rapidly. These changes oblige the healthcare sector to adopt the management principles applied by the other sectors. Many studies have been realized to reveal and emphasize the significant competitive advantage and cost reduction resulting from supply chain management (SCM) practices. However, the healthcare industry has been extremely slow to embrac...

Abstract Blockchain has recently been associated to Supply Chain Management solve several problems and change operations management processes. The study proposes analyse three different scenarios of the Parmigiano Reggiano supply chain considering blockchain technology as an enabler for use other technologies such RFID Internet Things (IoT) exploitation Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) strategy. ...

Purpose For the supply chain to be responsive in age of globalization, firm needs adopt strategies enable them meet changing market needs. Thus, it is essential automatic replenishment programmes such as vendor-managed inventory (VMI). This study sought examine relationship between VMI and operational performance (OP) moderation roles leadership digitization mining sector. Design/methodology/ap...