Anyone who has worked in a pharmacy over the past few years knows that medication shortages have continued to become more of problem, with no apparent end sight. Because pharmaceutical supply chain is highly complex global enterprise, there are likely quick solutions this growing problem. This often leaves pharmacists and technicians feeling frustrated when trying order medications high demand ...

Issues related to structures of goods and information are frequently discussed in the logistics and Supply Chain Management (SCM) literature. But, only few contributions are exploring the financial structures associated with supply chains. This paper presents a framework to identify the appropriate financing source used for supply chain. It is extensively noticed that although various financing...

With progressing technologies and new features of production, new products compete with older ones in markets. Indeed, new products initiate contest with olden ones and this process repeats in different productions lifetime several times. In this situation recycling the olden products seems to be significant for supply chains. Governments often levy special tariffs for these products as a contr...

More than 200 papers have been published in the last 20 years on the topic of health supply chains (HSC). Looking at the research methodologies employed, less than 15 papers apply data envelopment analysis (DEA) models. This is in contrast to, for example, A Network Data Envelopment Analysis (NDEA) Model for Supply Chain Performance Evaluation where several reviews on respective NDEA models hav...

This paper presents a competitive supply chain network design problem in which one, two, or three supply chains are planning to enter the price-dependent markets simultaneously in uncertain environments and decide to set the prices and shape their networks. The chains produce competitive products either identical or highly substitutable. Fuzzy multi-level mixed integer programming is used to mo...

We address how to manage extended supply chains that lie beyond the first-tier suppliers. The suppliers have their who provide them with goods or services. While lower-tier are often not an explicit concern of focal firm, firm's performance only depends on its suppliers, but also and beyond. These much less visible may even be known firm. Our intention is bring awareness importance these captur...

The bullwhip effect one of the most studied phenomenon in forward supply chains is also growing interest from the academia to be studied in closed loop supply chains. This paper aims to compare the bullwhip effect causes and factors in forward supply chains with those for closed loop supply chains. The methodology used was a systematic literature review of the papers that were published in acad...