One of the key objectives of an optimised supply chain is to maintain a low operation cost as well as the service quality at a satisfactory level under demand uncertainty. However, the supply chain network design and inventory control optimisation are usually conducted in a sequential manner where the supply chain network is first determined by solving a mixed-integer programing (MIP) problem, ...

Operations Research has addressed a variety of environmental problems outside the traditional supply chain management area such as remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and waste management. Supply chain sustainability, which includes designing green supply chains, will gain much more attention in the future. Indeed, most companies are still in the early stage of considering a green initiative. T...

today, the global business environment compels enterprises to consider rest of the world in their competitive strategy analysis where firms ignore external factors such as economic trends, competitive positions or technology advancement in other countries. while going truly global with supply chain management, a company develops product in the united states, produce in india and trade in europe...

Today, companies realize the importance of involving the global supplier network early in the product development cycle. This involvement can begin as early as the conceptualization stage and continue across the design, production, distribution, and service phases—the entire product lifecycle. This implies that product lifecycle management (PLM) and supply chain management (SCM) can no longer b...

The design and planning of resilient supply chains is a major challenge due to the increasing complexity of these systems that operate in a global market and therefore are more exposed to disruptions. In the present work a design and planning model that integrates demand uncertainty is applied to five supply chain structures that are submitted to different types of disruptions. Disruptions are ...

This paper reviews extant agent applications and describes the Agent Development Environment (ADE) toolkit. ADE is the integrated development environment to design, develop, debug, simulate and deploy agents. ADE supports the development of multi-agent applications capable of running on a single machine or on a distributed network. ADE has been used to build commercial applications in the area ...

Spurred by intensifying competition in global markets, most companies have been increasingly implementing supply chain management (SCM) and information systems (IS) practices. As well, globalization policies have created a more intensive competition amongst manufacturers; in additional the priority of supply over demand, market competition and importance of some factor such as quality, accounta...

We propose a design model for creating resilient supply network applicable local and global markets. It addresses the ineffectiveness failure of existing that resulted current economic, food hospital crisis during this ongoing COVID 19 Pandemic situation. The research includes resilience creation approach known previously experienced as well unknown unforeseen disruption situations. This consid...

Supply chain management is taken into account as an inseparable component in satisfying customers' requirements. This paper deals with the distribution network design (DND) problem which is a critical issue in achieving supply chain accomplishments. A capable DND can guarantee the success of the entire network performance. However, there are many factors that can cause fluctuations in input dat...

Customization is a critical success factor in current business environment. One of the most important components that make fast and inexpensive customization possible is electronic supply chain design (e-SCD). e-SCD is a supply chain design which integrates and coordinates suppliers, manufacturers, logistic channels, and customers using information technology (IT). In this study, a model that s...