As part of the session on “Information Technology and Changing Supply Chain Behavior,” this paper focuses on one agri-food industry and considers how the cattle-beef sector utilizes information technology to facilitate supply chain functions. The core functions of a supply chain are 1) responsiveness to consumer needs and 2) transformation of goods in form and location to deliver them efficient...

In this paper we consider a supply function model of an electricity market where strategic firms have capacity constraints. We show that if firms have heterogeneous cost functions and capacity constraints then the differential equation approach to finding the equilibrium supply function may not be effective by itself because it produces supply functions that fail to be non-decreasing. Even when...

agricultural sector will be most affected by climate change due to its extensive interaction with the environment. and as a result of changing production conditions, community welfare is changed. this study attempted at understanding the welfare effects of changes in climate parameters on the wheat product. therefore, the yield functions were initially estimated. supply, demand and import funct...

A firm’s internal supply chain refers to the specific value-creating functions within the organisation, such as production, sales and distribution. Previous research has shown that these functions need to work together to achieve high levels of firm performance. However, the means to achieve this integration of internal supply chain functions have not received much attention in current literatu...

Based on the value system of the supply chain, an analytical procedure which focused on the interactive relationship among the multi-tiered business network is proposed to generate the strategies and the activities for implementing SCM. The proposed methodology begins with analyzing the value system of the three-tiered supply chain and respectively explores the core activities and linkages in b...

Coordination is considered a fundamental element to achieve a better supply chain efficiency and effectiveness in today turbulent business environment. Supply chain coordination requires that all stages to take actions to maximise the global supply chain profit. Coordination is then an integral part of the Supply Chain Management (SCM) approach. The SCM approach is the systemic strategic coordi...

I would like to derive the answer to our question from the first function of language, which is: "language is meant to convey information from one person to another as quickly and clearly as possible" (Passy 1890). The quick part of this function lies on the part of the speaker, who would rather be lazy than tired; the clear part is on the listener, who must understand the message with as littl...

After describing the institutions for health care in China as they evolved since 1949, this paper presents statistical demand functions for health care. It applies the demand functions to explain the rapid increase in health care demand and the resulting rapid increase in price when supply failed to increase. The failure in increase in supply was traced to the system of public supply of healthc...