SUPPLY LIMITATION ACCORDING TO PRODUCT QUALITY

Quality Control of Non-Sterile Drug Product According to United States’ Pharmacopeia Instruction

Pharmaceutical products are classified into two groups according to the microbiological point of view: 1) sterile products and 2) non-sterile products. The sterilized term refers to the products that are free of any microorganisms, their production were done under aseptic conditions, but the production of non-sterile products were not under aseptic conditions; therefore, they are not free from ...

Product quality improvement model considering quality investment in rework policies and supply chain profit sharing

The aim of this paper is to develop an optimization model for quality improvement by considering quality investment in rework policies and supply chain profit sharing. To improve product’s quality, the decision of process target and its tolerance is important since it directly affects the defective rate, manufacturing cost, and loss to customer due to the deviation of product from its specifica...

Information and Product Quality Dynamics in Tiered Supply Networks

Economic supply networks can be viewed as complex systems composed of multiple, independent, interacting agents. Agents (companies) form relationships with one another by trading goods for other goods, services, or money. This paper presents a model for supply networks composed of a fixed number of discrete tiers of companies. Each company has mutable parameters (product quality, information in...

Product Quality Choice, Competition, and Supply Chain Design

From Supply Chains to Total Product Systems

The evolution of supply chain management and practice has had an integral and expanding role in contemporary global economic and socio-political change over the past 25 years or so. This role is moving closer to centre stage with the emergence of business models equating to ‘total product systems’. The impacts of advanced supply chain practice include driving fundamental changes in approach to ...