Shareholder Value Generation within the Agro-Food Financial Supply Chain

Requirements Engineering for the Business Process Re-Engineering: An Example in the Agro-Food Supply Chain

Recent researches in Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering suggest that a deep organizational analysis is needed as a preliminary phase of any project that aims at introducing or modifying the use of Information Technologies inside an organization. Accordingly to this view, the social setting is the motivating factor that justify the technological choices. In this paper, we show wit...

An Innovative Sensor in the Agro-food Supply Chain: a RFID Technology Model

This paper explores an opportunity for technology transfer monitoring and control, based on the use of miniaturized, smart and innovative sensors able to follow the product and guarantee the quality during all stages of the agro-food sector. The information concerning to the state of the product is transferred in real time in a wireless way, according to the RFID technology. The aim is to impro...

Trading reliability targets within a supply chain using Shapley's value

An evaluation of value-transfer within a modular supply chain

The paper explores the impact that modularization is having on the structure of supply chains in general and on the role of Ž rst-tier suppliers in particular. Two concepts are presented to illustrate Ž rstly the need to redeŽ ne the term ‘Ž rst-tier’ supplier and secondly to determine how and why value can be transferred within a modular supply chain. The Ž rst concept, the ‘continuum of Ž rst...

Modeling of financial supply chain

The research work on supply-chain management has primarily focused on the study of materials flow and very little work has been done on the study of upstream flow of money. In this paper we study the flow of money in a supply chain from the viewpoint of a supply chain partner who receives money from the downstream partners and makes payments to the upstream partners. The objective is to schedul...