This work considers the strategic Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) problem, which is to define number and location of facilities, flow products among them fulfilling a long-term deterministic demand. A two-phase heuristic approach was specially developed solve large scale problems in reasonable time, extending previous algorithm introduced Farias et al. (2017). In construction phase, multi-st...

Having a comprehensive evaluation model with reliable data is useful to improve performance of supply chain. In this paper, according to the nature of supply chain, a model is presented that able to evaluate the performance of the supply chain by a network data envelopment analysis model and by using the financial, intellectual capital (knowledge base), collaboration and responsiveness factors ...

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 ...

The operation of global manufacturing network is challenging due to the complexity in product and information flow, diversity in sites, localization and processes and the information processing needed for control. Thus information technology has to be developed to cope with this complexity and to develop decision support for controlling the network. In this paper the concept of the Global Contr...

Bullwhip effect has always been considered as one of the critical problems in a supply chain that negatively influences costs, inventory, reliability and other important business processes especially in upstream agents. This problem has become even more critical due to the increased complexity of global supply chains. This paper aims to develop a simulation approach based on system dynamics mod...