For as long as there have been supply chains, there have been disruptions, and no supply chain, logistics system, or infrastructure network is immune to them. Nevertheless, supply-chain disruptions have only recently begun to receive significant attention from practitioners and researchers. One reason for this growing interest is the spate of recent high-profile disruptions, such as September 1...

The project concerns the identification of commonalties amongst a set of operational European RTD projects in the IST Programme, that reside in the wider area of ECommerce, aiming to harmonize efforts for the establishment of common methodological and technological building blocks in the area of smart organizations, taking into consideration relevant standardized models and methodologies develo...

This paper describes the challenges of maritime supply chain compared to land transport and discusses new digital initiatives simplify processes enable a better plan for entire chain. First, background is outlined with an example extensive admin in road transport, followed by case presenting booking. The study concludes that lack integration costly terms both resources, as well lost capacity on...

This article investigates the pricing of options when the demand curve is downward sloping. Our speciÞc application arises in a supply chain setting, where a manufacturer offers the retailer the right to reorder items at a Þxed price and/or the right to return unsold goods for a predetermined salvage value. We show that the introduction of option contracts causes the wholesale price to increase...

Alejandro Serrano MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Rogelio Oliva Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics Center, Zaragoza, Spain. [email protected] Santiago Kraiselburd MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program, Zaragoza Logistics...

In the past decade, we have seen significant increase in the level of outsourcing in many industries. This increase in the level of outsourcing increases the importance of implementing effective contracts in supply chains. In this thesis, we study several issues in supply chain contracts. In the first part of the thesis, we study the impact of effort in a supply chain with multiple retailers. T...

" Digitally connected enterprises " refers to e-business, global supply chains, and other new business designs of Knowledge Economy; all of which require open and scalable information supply chains across independent enterprises. Connecting proprietarily designed and controlled enterprise databases in these information supply chains is a critical success factor for them. Previous connection des...

agility is the fundamental characteristic of a supply chain needed for survival in turbulent markets, where environmental forces create additional uncertainty resulting in higher risk in the supply chain management. in addition, agility helps providing the right product, at the right time to the consumer. the main goal of this research is therefore to promote supplier selection in pharmaceutica...