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Nowadays the supply chain for distributed manufacturing is gaining attention of the researchers worldwide. Realizing its significance this article proposes a self correcting multi-agent architecture for the supply chain for the distributed manufacturing environment. The main aim of the proposed architecture is to generate an effective manufacturing plan while exploring the algorithm portfolio concept...
Globalization has prompted manufacturing firms to come to terms with environmental legislation and regulations, resulting in the manufacturing industry realizing the importance of adopting environmental friendly supply chain management (SCM) practices. A growing number of companies have realized that attaining effective SCM is only one side of the coin. The other side is to make SCM environmentally...
This paper measures the relative influence of a set of determinants on firms' adoption of advanced planning and scheduling systems (APS). Our theoretical model was tested on data collected from 61 senior managers in the wireless communication sector. Our findings confirm the importance to consider the characteristics of business relationships when deciding to adopt an APS system and demonstrate that...
Today's business success to a great extent depends on logistics and supply chain performance. More and more companies, especially manufacturing firms, obtain their competitive advantages through creating successful logistics outsourcing alliances to optimize value and performance. This paper put forward a conception of producer logistics service, analyzes its positive effect on manufacturing firms...
This paper focused on a buyer-supplier coordination model to improve deliveries in a manufacturing supply chain. The proposed model based on the integrated total relevant costs of both buyer and supplier and determines optimal order quantity, the number of deliveries/setups, and quantity of deliveries over a finite planning horizon in a relatively simple JIT (single buyer single supplier) with multiple...
The following topics are dealt with: service design and engineering; service operation and innovations; logistics and supply chain management; service marketing and sustaining; service management and manufacturing firms; information technology and systems; service science; socio-economic effects; consumer behaviour; electronic commerce; electronic business; Web services and customer demands
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