This paper examines and compares various manufacturing policies which manufacturer may adopt so as to improve the performance of a vendor managed inventory (VMI) partnership. The goal is to maximize the combined cumulative profit of supply chain while minimizing relevant inventory management costs. The supply chain is a two-level system with a single manufacturer and single retailer at each lev...

Bullous pemphigoid (BP), the most frequent autoimmune bullous disorder, is a paradigmatic autoantibody-mediated disease associated with autoantibodies against BP180 (type XVII collagen, Col17). Several animal models have been developed that reflect important clinical and immunological features of human BP. Complement activation has been described as a prerequisite for blister formation, however...

Mixed multi-unit combinatorial auctions (MMUCAs) offer a high potential to be employed for the automated assembly of supply chains of agents. However, in order for mixed auctions to be effectively applied to supply chain formation, we must ensure computational tractability and reduce bidders’ uncertainty. With this aim, we introduce Sequential Mixed Auctions (SMAs), a novel auction model concei...

during recent years, determining appropriate strategy in the supply chain has become an important strategic issue. however, the nature of these decisions usually is complex and unstructured. to determine the best supply chain strategy, many quantitative and qualitative attributes such as cost, responsiveness and flexibility can be taken into account. in order to approximate the human subjective...

This work presents a selection model that adopts several important criteria, enabling the manager to select the supply chain management (SCM) of NB are the most appropriate. Major criteria weights are analyzed using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and sensitivity analysis. Analysis results indicate that the proposed selection model enables the manager to select the supply chain management...

Today’s supply chains characterize as high uncertainty, high customer expectations, and high vulnerability. Supply chain risk management (SCRM) has been an important area of supply chain management. Internal risks resulted from the interaction among supply chain members act as the major impact on supply chain coordination, but they are difficult to be modeled and analyzed if using traditional m...

Considering the supply chain consists of one supplier and two retailers, we construct the system’s dynamic models which face stochastic demand in the case of non-lateral transshipment (NLT), unidirectional lateral transshipment (ULT) and bidirectional lateral transshipment (BLT). Numerical example simulation experiments of these models were run on Venple. We adopt customer demand satisfaction r...

This paper presents a literature review of the issues surrounding supply chain risk management within the UK food industry and identifies key risk management techniques used by the food industry. The paper also presents the results from a pilot survey. The survey was conducted in an effort to explore further the understanding and perceptions that entities within the UK food supply chains have r...

The fashion clothing industry is particularly subject to strong external pressure for sustainable behaviour and the increased outsourcing of manufacturing has created long, globally fragmented supply chains. Supply chain management (SCM) has come to the fore in this industry, as the way a firm designs and manages its supply chain can provide competitive advantage in a market focused on cost, sp...