The problem of integrated production and maintenance control unreliable manufacturing systems evolving in a stochastic dynamic environment is studied this paper. considered system subject to degradation the produced products are perishable with random shelf-lives. literature operations management for reports correlation between shelf-life product machine degradation. In fact, latter results she...

This paper aims to develop a new bi-level game model for joint pricing and inventory decisions in competitive supply chain consisting of dominant manufacturer, who produces single perishable product from deteriorating raw materials, two follower retailers face nonlinear price-dependent demand operate under Cournot assumptions. Three levels warehousing including material warehouse, final retail ...

The work presented in this paper focuses on the construction of a prototype for strategic design of nodes in a logistics network (PROCONET project). It incorporates the necessary concepts, models and supporting tools related to the design of the process flow and the choice of technology. The operation of the prototype will be validated with global supply chain processes for perishable products....

Avocados are grown in many countries of the world and are consumed principally as fresh fruits. In marketing fresh avocados, imperfect and odd-sized fruits are usually rejected. In addition, the fruits selected require special handling because of their highly perishable nature. Therefore, the development of new avocado products and of improved methods of preservation are of interest to avocado ...

In the operations management literature, decentralization is often associated with the double marginalization problem. However, in this chapter, we review several existing papers that demonstrate how decentralization can be beneficial to supply chain performance. A key premise in this literature is that consumers are strategic: They rationally anticipate and respond to future market conditions....

This study is concerned with how the quality of perishable products can be improved by shortening the time interval between production and distribution. As special types of food such as dairy products decay fast, the integration of production and distribution scheduling (IPDS) is investigated. An integrated scheduling of both processes improves the performance and costs because the separated sc...

Crises impact every sector of the economy; however, magnitude that varies between different sectors. The agri-food sector-related lessons learned from last two crises (global financial crisis in 2008, and sanctions against Russia 2014) are international trade becomes lower commodity prices rise. This article analyzes performance Hungarian during three based on datasets. results show impacts dep...

A key feature of food products is their perishability. Within the short marketing window that characterizes most food and ag products, demand is typically highly stochastic and difficult to predict. This combination of features poses substantial challenges to retailers when pricing products and has implications for performance that ripples through vertical food chains. For many food products, p...