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In this paper, we propose a game theoretical analysis of supply chain configurations for two manufacturers and two retailers. The supply chain configuration is the structure of the leader-follower relationship in the decentralized decision making of pricing decisions for manufacturers and retailers. The effects of the supply chain configurations on the total profit are investigated. The closed-form...
Reverse logistics is an activity associated with a product/service after the point of sale, the ultimate goal to optimize or make more efficient aftermarket activity. Enterprises that have implemented reverse logistics have been able to enhance consumer service and response times, minimize environmental influences by minimizing waste and enhance complete corporate citizenship. In this connection,...
Buyer-supplier relationships have always been an important component in the long-term success of supply chains. This paper constructs a non-parametric Hoteling's T2 control chart to ensure that supply chain partners in dyadic relationships have the same level of understanding about the relationship. The proposed method is helpful to identify any unusual behavior in the relationship before it becomes...
Hirda, a tropical fruit is one of the primary sources of income in many tribal villages of Pune district. Hirda is collected by the women from the villages in large scale to sell in the local market. This is a study of supply chain of Hirda. Based on the study some recommendations are given to create better supply chain and help tribal people to get a higher share of the profit. The supply chain of...
Supplier Selection is a problem that supply chain managers have been facing for many years. Selecting the appropriate suppliers is no longer as simple as choosing only based on the price they offer. There are many criteria, which can be either quantitative or qualitative, to be considered. There is thus a need for an approach that can handle these criteria. Besides, as supply chains are becoming more...
Many Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and their suppliers face recall and warranty risks due to complex supply chains and products. OEMs and suppliers can hardly take appropriate actions for mitigating these quality risks due to lack of product history data and understanding of their probability. In this work, the product consists of two components delivered by two Tier II suppliers. Probabilities...
The supply chain and logistics are integral part of any business, streamlining and upgrading of it can largely impact the companies in a positive manner. Spare part supply chain management have high importance in several industries due to the high cost of spare parts supply and inventory and the uncertainty of spare parts demand. Companies in these industries are trying different management techniques...
Natural resource scarcity, climate change, and stakeholder requirements have prompted businesses to implement green initiatives involving resource conservation and clean production to deliver green organization performance for sustainable operations. This research is an application case of a global chemical manufacturer using a resource-based view (RBV) in a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) slacks-based...
This research, anchoring on supply chain configuration data of Italian best performer valve suppliers, achieved from previous published studies, aims to provide a new competitive boost to Italian engineered valve suppliers within the EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) supply chain of the Oil & Gas sector. This research, through the matching of the most effective and significant supply...
This research aims to investigate the collaboration patterns in supply chain with a triadic view. Case study was adopted in this research. Four triadic collaboration patterns throughout the whole supply chain have been summarized in according to various business segments. In upstream supply chain, there are two types of triadic collaboration pattern - directed collaboration triad and cultivated collaboration...
The present defence industry growth, driven by the emerging needs towards sustainable environment, has made multiple life cycle product remanufacturing into an important aspect in providing the solution for efficient supply chain management from as early as the design stage. Due to these strict needs, strategic assets are focused in this research, in order to provide it with a flexible framework to...
Modularization is a complex strategy characterized by both technical and managerial decisions. This paper aims at understanding practitioners' perceptions about two of the most important elements to be taken into account in a proper decision-making process, i.e. barriers to and impacts of modularization. The adopted methodology is the analysis of a number of questionnaires distributed during two of...
The relationship between manufacturer and supplier in the automotive industry involves process of knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is an important process that may improve manufacturer and supplier performances. In a co-opetition business environment, companies tend to limit knowledge sharing, if they regard their partners as potential competitors. Trust is used to reflect the level of co-opetition...
Commodity Price Volatility (CPV) management is becoming extremely important both from an academic and a practitioner perspective, even if from the screening of the literature it turns out that there are few works focusing on how to manage CPV. Such works are limited to either outlining an approach to assess a company's risk exposure or identifying and simply describing the most common CPV mitigation...
Supply Chain Management efforts are continuously seeking for improvements to better manage inventory levels and fulfill customer orders in a cost effective manner. However, defining system capacity by reacting to sales orders levels and inventory availability may create a bullwhip effect along the supply chain. This review is dedicated to compare two different manufacturing capacity planning strategies...
The short-term forecast of electricity consumption plays a vital role in the effective management of allocated resources to electricity generation. A reduction in the average forecasting error of 1% can save thousands or even millions of dirhams in an electricity generation unit. Therefore, predicting the electricity consumption is necessary to minimize costs of over or under production. The work...
For future success in business, students study diligently and acquire significant amounts of specialized knowledge at the university. In the real business world, specialized knowledge alone is insufficient to produce or find business solutions. Therefore, they must learn corporate management. Nevertheless, it is hard to teach corporate management to students during a short time at the university level...
For modern industry, data generated by machines and devices, product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, production planning systems or quality and inventory management systems has reached a volume of more than a thousand Exabyte annually and is expected to increase in the next years. This has led to the need of “Big Data” which originally referred to the huge flood of data, has extended the scope...
Many manufacturing companies are experiencing more and more wider variation in market growth and customer demand. Studies have been conducted over the years to improve the accuracy of the manufacturing forecast. However, the theoretical forecast models so far haven't achieved much success and the gaps between forecast and actual demand are still wide that a buffer has to be built up especially for...
Taiwan's cultural performance and exhibition facilities industry still has considerable capacity for development. The public sector has the output estimate based on the combination of the output and input statistics together. In this case, the problem of duplicate calculation cannot be avoided and the resulting "all-encompassing" expenditure subsidy will not generate maximum economic benefit...
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