In this paper, we present an application of RFIDs for supplychain management. In our application, we consider two types of readers. On one part, we have readers that will mark tags at given points. After that, these tags can be checked by another type of readers to tell whether a tag has followed the correct path in the chain. We formalize this notion and define adequate adversaries. Morever, w...

One area in which experimental economics methods have been used to study operations problems is supply-chain management. We survey results from a series of human experiments based on the popular beer distribution game and find cognitive limitations on the part of managers, in particular an underweighting of the supply line. We suggest mechanisms that may alleviate this bias, including sharing i...

This paper presents the results of an investigation of network practice among European Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME’s). The purpose is to assess network management practice and design implications for Information Communication Technology (ICT) support. The investigation consisted of 49 interviews with individuals employed by 19 SME’s that either were or had been involved in a network...

Building a successful e-business requires such enterprise capabilities as global networking, integrated business processes, sharing information with supplychain partners, agility in responding to the market, and intelligent decisionmaking. At the same time enterprise systems have extended beyond the traditional business functions and include features to support supply-chain management, customer...

Introduction This paper will discuss the need for a robust conceptual framework for supplychain management. It forms part of a continuing research programme at UMIST aimed at producing a broadly applicable theoretical basis for work in this important area. The discussion adopts the following structure. First it is argued that despite the explosion of interest in the field, there remain signific...

blood supply chain management is one of the mainchallenges in healthcare system. optimal locationof blood donation camps is one of the key factors in optimizing the bloodsupply chain. disruption in location of blood donation camps because ofdisasters will have a negative impact on the entire supply chain. thispaper develops a generalized network optimization model for the complex supplychain of...

Financial corporations and especially banking institutions have important needs concerning to the development of software around their business core. The software, that traditionally had been developed in house by IT departments, is now usually outsourced firms. These firms work under factories model. An feature within this sector financial groups keep ownership these because strategic value fo...

In this paper, 1 will describe examples of state-of-the-art practice in supply-chain management; e.g., vendor-managed inventory, quick response, and other contemporary systems, such as Wal-Mart's RetailLink. The perspective will be that of what I call the JDJB Portfolio; i.e., what Information (I), Decision-Making {D), Implementation (I), and Buffer (B) systems are employed in managing real-wor...