Improving the efficiency of decentralized supply chains with fixed ordering costs

Information Flows in Capacitated Supply Chains with Fixed Ordering Costs

Fuzzy revenue efficiency in sustainable supply chains

The performance assessment of supply chains including sustainability dimensions of economic, environmental and social is a significant aspect for managers and decision makers. Furthermore, imprecise data are presented in many real world applications. Therefore, the current paper proposes an approach based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to analyze the revenue efficiency of sustainable supply...

Some Properties of Decentralized Supply Chains

This paper analyzes the bullwhip effect in decentralized, linear and time-invariant (LTI) supply chains. It generalizes existing results by broadening the class of policies and customer demand processes under consideration. The supply chain is modeled as a single-input, singleoutput control system driven by arbitrary demands. The paper discusses the appropriateness of various metrics for the bu...

Decentralized Supply Chains Subject to Information Delays

We consider a supply chain whose members are divisions of the same firm. The divisions are managed by different individuals with only local inventory information. Both the material and information flows in the supply chain are subject to delays. Under the assumption that the division managers share a common goal to optimize the overall performance of the supply chain (i.e., they act as a team),...

Material Management in Decentralized Supply Chains