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In the pharmaceutical supply chain, all players have to ensure the highest level of service while containing costs, because of the ethical issues concerning drugs. The outsourcing of logistics should be recognized as a competitive lever, especially in this complex and highly regulated industry. Based on these premises, the research objective of this study is to investigate the relationship between...
Coopetition (cooperation between competitive organizations) was conceptually established several years ago. However, the number and diversity of business model elements (products, partners, employees, customers, processes) within and outside particular supply chains has grown, establishing a need for rethinking relationships between stakeholders with similar and yet also competing strategies. Second,...
Our research studies the harvest plan for aromatic coconut for the aromatic coconut manufacturers located in Ratchaburi province, Thailand. The supply planning is complex because there are many uncertain factors. For example, the number of coconuts in each crop is varied and depends on the season, water amount, soil fertility and pests. In addition, coconut price at farm gate is highly fluctuated...
Biofuel has become a kind of promising energy to substitute fossil fuels for its huge potential on reducing carbon dioxide emission as well as solving energy shortage. However, non-technology problems, especially the supply chain management has become the important bottlenecks. This paper focused on subsidy contract of a three-level biofuel supply chain and formulated a model to maximize the profits...
Many countries like the US, Brazil, Australia, Canada and some European countries have proposed policies to encourage the use of biofuels by the implementation of regulations to encourage their use in the different sectors of the economy. Among them we find the public transport sector. It is still difficult to assess the potential environmental and social benefits of the use of biofuels because they...
Tactical planning consists of developing production plans to fulfill client demands with a minimal logistic cost. However, plans generated by classical models for tactical planning do not consider a minimum financial need in terms of Working Capital Requirements (WCR) to maintain the activities related to the operating cycle. In this paper, we introduce a first link between tactical planning and the...
The purpose of this paper is to develop a nonlinear programming method for solving a type of cooperative games in which there are multiple objectives and coalitions' values on objectives are expressed with intervals, which are called intervalvalued multiobjective cooperative games for short. In this method, we define the concepts of interval-valued cores of interval-valued multiobjective cooperative...
For a long time, the research concerning returned products has focused on multiples issues. It was not until the early nineties that Reverse Logistics (RL) has captured the academic attention. RL commonly refers to the backward movement of materials in the supply chain. In order to cover all these aspects of RL we propose an integrated Decision Support System (DSS) which can ease products and shipping...
The interest towards solutions related to the management and analysis of disturbances in supply chains has increased, which has led to a pressure among technology and service providers to develop comprehensive business models to response customer needs. The aim of the study is to clarify the value elements of a business model for disturbance management and analysis in supply chains. Regarding to the...
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,...
The concept of a Product-Service System (PSS) was firstly published in 1999 as a `product(s) and service(s) combined in a system to deliver required user functionality in a way that reduces the impact on the environment'. Although this concept has been discussed in literatures over a decade, it still lacks of tools for evaluating the impacts of a PSS in a supply chain. This paper proposes a simple...
To equilibrate the profit distribution mechanism that is invalided by emergency in supply chain, a game model is constructed to distribute profits among enterprises in supply chain, and the optimal strategies for every enterprise can be got after resolving this model, to fit for emergency. Considering the strategies' distinction between from system decision and from decentralization decision, then,...
A logistics network management system controlling the entire supply chain was designed to reduce the total cost and to achieve an efficient system. The interactions between inventory and transportation strategies in the logistics network are presented in this paper. Demand volumes and shipping sizes were simulated as part of a new conceptual model by using a discrete event simulation to minimize the...
New forms of relationships and transactions are being practiced between companies participating in the same supply chain to improve the competitive conditions in the chain. The automotive industry is a striking example of a sector in which relationships between companies have undergone profound changes, motivated mainly by the influence of automakers on primary suppliers who, in turn, work with their...
Electronic commerce as a new model of business operation plays an important role in promoting global economic development. Electronic commerce is changing many aspects of logistics, and promoting the development of logistics greatly. At the same time, if there is no modern logistics, business activities will become difficult. For enterprises, the right logistics model chosen is necessary. Therefore,...
Lacking information instruction, small and medium-sized enterprises in China, which organize as industry clusters, are suffering from high costs and production disorder. Meanwhile, equipped with informationized systems, third party logistics firms are urgently seeking new businesses to expand. Under such circumstances, we propose a 3PL-based synergy strategy model in order to satisfy the needs of...
Logistics network design is an important strategic decision. With the development of globalization, more companies outsource their logistics and the third-party logistics companies have become the mainstream. So how to design a reasonable logistics network is important to both manufacturers and 3PL. this article analyses the situation of 3PL and provides a model in logistics network design. Finally,...
In the increasingly fierce market competition, companies should focus on constantly nurturing and enhancing the capabilities of customer value creation. The paper uses the system theory to study the capability system of customer value creation. In order to further reveal the composition, nature and evolution of customer value creation capability, the paper build the production function model of customer...
Now costumers play an important role in the developing and to guide of each organization. Organizations have found that realize of needs and making credit for customers, is one of the main factors of success in the competitive world. Organizations managers, so were intended to management carry connection with costumers out in their organizations, but, CRM deployment isn't only supply step of service...
The traditional supply chain management focuses on processing and transaction of the product. Today supply chain management are trying to meet the market requirement fast, enhance the market competition competence with supply chain integration technology and create more values and the profit. Supply chain integrated management is a effective management strategy and the method which global many companies...
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