Customers’ pressure, social responsibility, and government regulations have motivated the enterprises to consider reverse logistics (RL) in their operations. Recently, companies frequently outsource RL practices third-party providers (3PRLPs) concentrate on primary concern diminish costs. However, select suitable 3PRLP candidate requires a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process involving...

In some lateral alliances, firms coordinate their interactions in Supply Chain Management (SCM) via contracts. Successful implementation of contracts alliances remains challenging practice because the incomplete identification barriers by involved alliance. This paper investigates issues To identify barriers, literature and interview experts on subject matter are reviewed. By adopting novel Fuz...

A common cause of retrieval failure in case-based reasoning (CBR) approaches to product recommendation is that the retrieved cases, usually those that are most similar to the target query, are not sufficiently representative of compromises that the user may be prepared to make. We present a new approach to retrieval in which similarity and compromise play complementary roles, thereby increasing...

<p>This essay addresses the concept of compromise. When compromise takes place between two or more parties, reciprocity must be present; that is, concessions are mutual. Genuine is based on mutual respect and genuine parties. First, explained. Next, a relevant distinction made principled tactical A refers to recognition by each side other’s rights, which leads them make enable meet middle...