Symbiotic and parasitic supply chains

VMI-type Supply Chains: a Brief Review

The primary purpose of this paper is to highlight for the research community and practitioners the various aspects of using VMI-type supply chains in today’s business environment as well as a number of directions for future studies. In this regard, fifty articles published in major international journals, beginning in 1995, which contribute to the VMI-type supply chains are reviewed via a syste...

Supply chains and terrorism

On the morning of September 11, 2001 the United States and the Western world entered a new era – one in which indiscriminate terrorist acts of all kinds must be expected. Many, if not most, of the expected consequences of the new era will be reflected in supply chain management challenges: relations with suppliers and customers, transportation difficulties and revised inventory management strat...

AI4B: Accountable IT Infrastructures for Optimizing Supply Chains in Bioenergy Symbiotic Networks

Project AI4B aims to develop a data-driven approach to establish bioenergy networks of biomass feedstock producers and collectors. The project's main target is to remove bottlenecks in the biomass supply pipeline and to develop accountable, economically and environmentally sustainable bioenergy practices.

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...

Web Technologies and Supply Chains