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Collaborative supply chains have become an important element for recent years for many companies to improve their supply chain efficiency. This paper reviews the literature on operation research tools and methods for collaboration in supply chain. First, optimization methods for the collaborative supply chain are presented for both vertical and horizontal collaboration. In horizontal collaboration,...
As a new type of management pattern, ”cluster supply chain” (CSC) can help SMEs to face the global challenges through all kinds of collaboration. However, a major challenge in implementing CSC is the gap between theory and practice in the field. The recent rapid commercialization and adoption of ”service” technologies has driven a process of transforming theory into practices. In an effort to provide...
The European market is dominated by small and medium sized enterprises (SME), which produce the bulk of the European Gross Domestic Product. In order to strengthen these companies and the whole European market, new methods need to be introduced to allow these companies to create new value chains. This article presents a concept for the establishment of a future virtual digital retail ecosystem. This...
Supply chain is like a mine of information for enterprises in supply chain, and the competitiveness of the enterprises and the whole supply chain can be promoted depending on the efficiency of their abilities to acquire information from supply chain. For that the core enterprise plays the leading role in supply chain, this article drills down the work flow and knowledge flow models in supply chain...
Cluster supply chain is a new economic theory for SMEs to improve each other's capabilities and face with global challenges through all kinds of collaborative strategies. However, it is still an open problem on how to bridge the gap between business theories and IT realization. The paper proposes a modeling framework to depict cluster supply chain from three views (business models, specification models,...
Cluster supply chain is a new economic theory for SMEs to improve each other's capabilities and face with global challenges through all kinds of collaborative strategies. However, it is still an open problem on how to bridge the gap between business theories and IT realization. The paper proposes a modeling framework to depict cluster supply chain from three views (business models, specification models,...
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