in any supply chain, distribution planning of products is of great importance to managers. with effective and flexible distribution planning, mangers can increase the efficiency of time, place, and delivery utility of whole supply chain. in this paper, inventory routing problem (irp) is applied to distribution planning of perishable products in a supply chain. the studied supply chain is compos...

The mainstream view holds that over time buyer–supplier relationships evolve through a number of phases. As a consequence, supplier development as a buyer–supplier relationship management practice should also be adapted to the life-cycle phase. Supplier development activities matching the buyer– supplier relationship life-cycle phase will lead to more favorable performance improvements. However...

in this study, the relative performance of mazandaran wood and paper company as a major supplier of paper products in iran was measured. network data envelopment analysis (dea) models with parallel structure were used to evaluate and measure its performance. gams software version 23.4 was used for data analysis. results indicated that this company in all studied years had good performances base...

3 The Challenge of New Product Development 4 International Performance Comparisons 6 Designing The Study 7 Product Development Performance 9 Process Performance 10 Process Performance : Speed 11 Process Performance: Efficiency 12 Process Performance : Control 16 Other Outcomes 17 Company Characteristics 19 Project Management 20 Supplier Involvement 21 Industry Structures 22

& Impacts on markets and organizations & Adoption in eMarkets and interorganizational information systems & Interorganizational coordination and integration & Vertical integration and hybrid forms & Electronic intermediaries & Disintermediation/mediation & New organizational forms & Online buyer and supplier behavior & Business models and market design & Market efficiency and price dispersion &...

Although the supply chain management literature is extensive, the benefits and challenges of coordinated decision making within supply chain scheduling models have not been studied. We consider a variety of scheduling, batching and delivery problems that arise in an arborescent supply chain where a supplier makes deliveries to several manufacturers, who also make deliveries to customers. The ob...

Generally, the inventory routing problem occurs in a supply chain where customers consider the supplier responsible for inventory replenishment. In this situation, the supplier finds the answer to questions regarding the time and quantity of delivery to the customer as well as the sequence of customers in the routes. Considering the effect of production decisions on answering these questions, t...

Supplier performance evaluation plays a vital role in the creating an effective business survival especially pessimistic environment. More also, of supplier is important for enterprise to survive competitive local and global market. The study x-rays benefit data envelopment analysis evaluating decision-making units (DMUs). DEA mathematical programming tool applied measurement. A case scenario p...

This study investigates the role personal connections play in a crucial element of supply chain—supplier selection. We find that likelihood potential supplier (hereafter, vendor) is selected to be an actual supplier) increases when between executives vendor and customer exist. The magnitude effect varies predictably across management ranks positions stronger information asymmetries are high. Co...