Global Supply Chains and International Competitiveness

Decentralized Supply Chains Coordination under Uncertain Competitiveness

The coordination of decentralized multi-site multi-product manufacturing SCs is achieved through Scenario-Based Negotiations (SBNs) based on expected winwin principles in an uncertain competitive environment. Based on the nonsymmetric roles of the different actors, the client (SC leader) is supposed to propose coordination contracts according to its best expected conditions, taking into account...

Modeling The Cost of International Trade in Global Supply Chains

Logistics and the Competitiveness of Canadian Supply Chains

In 2009, Canada ranked ninth among OECD countries with a per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of $46,243,1 a measurement generally used to compare societies’ standards of living. That same year, our main trading partner, the United States, ranked third with a per capita GDP of $56,109—21.3% higher than the figure for Canada. It is generally acknowledged that an increase in a country’s standa...

Negotiations Provider-Client for Supply Chains Coordination under Competitiveness

Current tactical models of Supply Chains (SC) associate the conflicts among independent SCs with the uncertain behaviour of external echelons (third parties). Although the trend now arises to solve these conflicts using multi-objective optimization and game theory, typical analytical models do not consider the benefits of uncertainty reduction obtained when a supply/demand contract is agreed, w...

Global Supply Chains and Wage Inequality

A salient feature of globalization in recent decades is the emergence of “global supply chains” in which different countries specialize in different stages of a sequential production process. In Arnaud Costinot, Jonathan Vogel and Su Wang (2011), CVW hereafter, we have developed a simple theory of trade with sequential production to shed light on how global supply chains affect the interdepende...