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Sustainability is a timely topic. A sustainable supply chain is one which aims to maximize the system's performance in three dimensions, namely environment, economics, and society. In the fashion industry, with the advance of big data related information technologies, achieving a sustainable supply chain is no longer a dream. In this paper, we first establish that a fashion supply chain is in fact...
The significance of remanufacturing used products has been widely recognized in literatures and in practice. In this paper, we put forward the idea of introducing Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID for short) into the recycling activities of waste products, and assume that RFID would contribute to save recycling cost. Taking into account such elements as RFID technical level and the RFID...
The Asymmetric information among different entities can contribute to the imbalance between supply and demand in agricultural supply chain. Negotiation is an effective method to address information symmetry. Many researchers can be found in the literature on agent-based negotiation in industrial supply chain, but very few in agricultural supply chain, primarily because of the interior instability...
This paper proposes a Cloud-centric platform offering efficient inventory management as a service for supply chain stakeholders. The offered service will enable all stakeholders in a supply chain to minimize both their ordering costs and their shortage costs, while managing their inventories. The proposed cloud-based platform stores all the data, relating to a given product item, released by the involved...
Current efforts in manufacturing and logistics research focus on developing innovative systems that enable enterprises to respond faster and more effective to changing market conditions, thus, paving the way for the fourth industrial revolution. Amongst others, an intensified collaboration within supply chains on the basis of virtualized processes is agreed to be a promising approach. Especially also...
In a third-party logistics (3PLs) cross-enterprise environment, Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is directly associated with the performance of the business. However there are still significant challenges in terms of how EAI is approached, operated and implemented. The challenges mainly arise from the lack of industry specific guidelines for EAI usage in 3PL environment. This paper's main...
Sustainability criteria are often contradictory and the choice of a practice compared to another for performance improvement, should take into account the conflicts of criteria to find a compromise. The choice of a practice and the quantification of its impacts are determined by qualitative scales containing many ambiguities, and may lead to misinterpretation of the results. Inspired by research on...
In Supply Chain Management, several costs should be taken into account. They cover all of the holding, purchasing, ordering and transportation. Minimizing costs may be done through considering each cost separately or all of them simultaneously. In this paper, we focus on the ordering problem. In a cooperative context, two major fundamental relations were studied: the first one considers the possible...
Rapid changes in modern product development and realization and the move towards globalization are creating gaps in engineering education systems around the world. The global economy has changed the way that engineering firms design, develop, and produce their products. The new global business realities mandate that all firms should evaluate many options available worldwide, not just locally. The...
The development of SCM systems is a difficult activity, since it involves integrating critical business flows both within and among participating companies. The inherently difficulty of the problem is exacerbated by the business constraint (that almost invariably applies in the real world) that the investments made by individual companies throughout the years must be preserved. This maps to major...
Encouraging consumers to make environmentally sustainable consumption and behavioral choices is a major issue in the 21st century with implications for the well-being of humanity in the future. For consumers to take responsibility for the environmental impact of their consumer choices, they must be provided environmental impact information on the products they purchase. In this paper, we develop a...
Digital business ecosystems are becoming an increasingly popular concept as an open environment for modeling and building interoperable system integration. Business organizations have realized the importance of using standards as a cost-effective method for accelerating business process integration. Small and medium size enterprise (SME) participation in global trade is increasing, however, digital...
It is often taken for granted that the right products will be available to buy in retail outlets 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. Challenges in achieving this continued on-shelf availability range from recession hit demand patterns to cost reduction driven strategies. Irish government initiatives to brand the country as a sustainable, reliable provider of food retail supply chains has resulted in increased...
This paper presents the architecture and working principles of a Decision Support System (DSS) for logistics networks. The system relies on a data-driven discrete-event simulation model. A brief introduction to Reinforcement Learning (RL) and an explanation of the adoption of RL to the concepts of the DSS is given. An illustration of the realization is presented using a specific aspect of a logistics...
The cost-optimal trend in global competitive environment has led to lean, complex and consequently vulnerable supply chains. This vulnerability is high due to the presence of increasing dependency in lean supply chain networks. Hence, it is essential for companies to regulate the supply chain network structure and information sharing strategies so as to be more resilient to disruptions/risks. In order...
In the view of supply chain finance, the default risk of the enterprise not only exists within the enterprise, but also gets along with between two enterprises, which makes it more essential to evaluate the default risk of the whole supply chain. This paper addresses on the contagion of the risk between two enterprises, selecting the financing enterprises as the research object and taking two enterprises...
Supply Chain Information Systems (SCIS) and their impact on organisational performance has been studied by a number of studies. This research seeks to extend this body of knowledge by adopting a fresh lens to explore empirically the relationship between organisational performance and SCIS in circumstances of economic downturn and financial turbulence. The statistical relationship between Supply Chain...
Today's supply chain (SC) is highly complex and inter-connected so disruption at one company can propagate to other companies in an unexpected manner. However, most approaches in the area of risk management provide only static analysis of the SC risk but not the propagation of disruption through the SC network. Thus, in this paper, we propose a time-based model that quantifies the magnitude of the...
In a make-to-order environment, manufactures should make preparations for production to fulfill stochastic customers' demand at low costs and risk levels. This research focuses on two risk levels: operational risks and disruption risks, and correspondingly, two kinds of evaluation models—value at risk and conventional value at risk—is presented to qualify them. Then, conventional criteria are incorporated...
The Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a fast and efficient way to transfer business documents. It allows optimization of logistic information flows and their synchronization with the physical flows. This study aims to explore how the automotive industry in Morocco is using the EDI technology to optimize flows and ensure in-time production (JIT) and how to avoid waste during the manufacturing process...
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