Using a real-life data set, we investigate the benefit of sharing market sales information in a setting where a theoretical model argues there is no benefit from such a collaboration scheme. The set of real Electronic Point Of Sales (EPOS) data and the orders that were placed by a retailer to a suppler was used. We have focused on products that operate under an every day low price strategy. To ...

Inter-firm cooperation has gained importance in the context of buyer-supplier relationships. Trading partners often build inter-firm relationships to combine valuable resources and knowledge in order to achieve superior long-term performance. Inter-firm relationships require trading partners make relation-specific investments and build initiatives that facilitate and maintain buyer-suppler coop...

This study investigated optimal green operation and information leakage decisions in a supply chain system. The system consists of one supplier, leader retailer 1, follower 2, the government. In this system, government subsidizes each based on selling price product. supplier is subject to yield uncertainty process. suppler decides whether leak 1′s order quantity 2 or not. study, we first built ...

literatures have reported that a lot of drought related genes were cloned and individual gene showed positive effects under controlled stress experiments, but were not much effective in the field. although, the progresses by conventional breeding approaches were achievable as some drought varieties have been released to the farmers in the recent years but this is not adequate to cope up with th...

Due to the importance of supplier selection issue in supply chain management (SCM) and ,also,  the increasing tendency of organizations to their social responsibilities, In this paper, we survey the supplier selection issue as a multi objective problem while considering the factor of corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a mathematical parameter. The purpose of this paper is to design a mode...

background: the immunomagnetic separation technique is the basis of monocyte isolation and further generation of monocyte-derived dendritic cells. objective: to compare the efficiency of monocyte positive and negative separation, concentration of beads, and their impact on generated dendritic cells. methods: monocytes were obtained using monoclonal antibody-coated magnetic beads followed the fi...

emergency medicine is a relatively new specialty in iran. therefore, the general public and the medical community do not have enough information on its duties, capabilities, its nature, and its work schedule or its degree of occupational difficulty compared to other specialties. hence, an insight from the early group of residents who selected this specialty can help identify the strengths and w...