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In traditional business environment, the business enterprises emphasize the meticulous division of labor, entrusting the real object resources, realizing internal value of enterprises with the artificial means and traditional ways. But the traditional enterprises value chains have already displayed some shortage in the new development environment. The development of E-commerce produced a series of...
In order to realise just-in-time concepts in supply chains, customers usually have to provide information about their required materials to their suppliers. Now the problem arises what forecast data the customer should report to his suppliers when the future demand of his outlet is not exactly known. This demand usually is subject to a probability distribution. Without any restrictions, the customer...
Driven by internet and e-Commerce, cost comparison is easy. However, most of the manufacturers are still using conventional distribution channel and sale agents, these channels are known as demand chain. On the other hand, consumers are performing price searching through internet to fulfill their expectation on price. To maintain the price advantage and to keep the profit, new demand chain members...
Supply-chain modeling based on multi-agent includes four step modeling of analyzing composing of supply chain entity, establishing operation flow, designing operation processing agent and unit frame. Owing to agent has basic attribute of target, knowledge and sign, universal architecture is composed of communication, operation processing, reasoning, learning and message units. According to the members...
Vendor Management Inventory (VMI) is an integrated supply chain inventory management mode, as the intermediary of suppliers and customers, TPL provider's participation with VMI inventory management functions in resources integration, costs reduction, service levels improvement and risk reduction. Based on the thought of the existing Vendor Management Inventory, this article further discusses the VMI...
With the logistics outsourcing more widely used, a growing number of third-party logistics (TPL) were introduced to the VMI (Vendor-managed Inventory) implementation strategy, in this mode, how to effectively integrate the logistics and information flow in the supply chain has become an important research topic. Due to the complexity and a certain randomness of this mode, this paper uses the generalized...
Information sharing is increasingly recognized as an area offering significant potential for generating improvements and creating competitive advantage to supply chain. The value of information sharing within a supply chain has been analyzed extensively by number of researchers. However, there are few scholars who have ever specially discussed on information sharing risk both in domestic and foreign...
In this paper we study the push and pull model of supply chain with a price-sensitive demand, in which a supplier sells a single product to competing retailers who then sell the product with the market price that equates the total supply with demand, and compare the performance of supply chain between these two different models. We prove that for the multiplicative form of end-customer demand, at...
In this paper, we consider a supply chain consisting of two independent agents, a manufacturer and a single supplier, the latter is the only source for a customized component. Two cases are considered. When the manufacturer has complete information on the production cost of the supplier, we offer cost-sharing contracts to coordinate the supply chain. Our analysis demonstrates that the manufacturer...
The competence of supply chain depends on the cooperation of enterprises on the supply chain. And one of the main influence factors of partnership is revenue distribution. So far the problem of revenue distribution has been analyzed extensively by number of researchers. However, there are few scholars who have ever specially discussed on distribution mechanism of information sharing revenue based...
Supply chain dynamics is the key issues in supply chain management. To explain supply chain dynamics under the sustainable development, the paper will focus on its classic behavior: the inventory variance and bullwhip effect. A simple system dynamics model of an initial/closed loop supply chain system is investigated. Particularly, the effect of remanufacture, remanufacturing lead-time and the return...
This paper analyzes the problem of quantity decision and production planning in a supply chain, which is composed of one manufacturer and one retailer to meet the random demand of short-life-cycle products. To study the coordination of two ordering strategy, an optimization function aiming at maximizing total expected profits is established. Then the model is analyzed by the use of the numerical method,...
The apparel industry is one of the most globalised industries, with 23.6 million workers in over 20 countries. The market characteristics in this industry are short product lifecycles, high volatility, low predictability, and a high level of impulse purchase, making such issues as quick response of paramount importance. This paper will focus on Zara, the largest and the most successful chain of Inditex...
The philosophy of Kanban is that parts and materials should be supplied at the very moment they are needed in the factory manufacturing process. e-based inter-enterprise supply chain Kanban are investigated on the distribution center of a global supply chain network, with information technology based pull systems being examined from the distributors back to the suppliers. Using the qualitative case...
Traceability is important in the food supply chain to ensure the consumerspsila food safety, especially for the fresh products. In recent years, many solutions which applied various emerging technology have been proposed to improve the traceability of fresh product. However, the traceability system needs to be customized to satisfy different requirements. The system depends on the different product...
For two stage perishable productpsilas supply chain consisting of one supplier and one retailer, it can be coordinated with rebate and penalty contract under some setting. But this coordination may be broken off by an emergent event, which maybe make the demand disruptions. In this paper, an optimal strategy for perishable supply chain to the disruptions is given, and as optimal response for the perishable...
In view of current situation that automobile enterprises are not able to carry out the e-commerce sale fully, a mixed marketing mode is advanced. Firstly, the great superiority in the e-commerce sale mode is illustrated through the analysis and the comparison of traditional automobile sale and e-commerce sale. And then, a system structure is put forward for the e-commerce sale development of current...
The dynamic pricing problem of manufacturer was studied, in which the demand of purchasers was uncertain. The cost of the raw-material, production, the stock and the cost of executing order from downstream enterprise were considered, the unsatisfied demand and the lead time in delivering were taken into account either. The time-space network was introduced to describe this dynamic supply chain network,...
Due to increasing competition over the past decade, enterprises have to engage more effort in improving customer service and to increase company profits through effective supply chain management. To optimize the system, the usually adversarial relationships between the suppliers and the buyers have been replaced by the collaborative partnerships. We develop a supplier-buyer production inventory model...
In this paper, all-unit wholesale quantity discount policy (AWQD) is adopted to coordinate a complicated supply chain consisting of one provider, multiple third party logistics enterprises (3PLs), and multiple retailers located in many markets, under the normal market environment or the emergent events inducing the demand disruption. The results imply that AWQD also can coordinate the complex supply...
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