Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to formulate a coordinated inventory control model for growing items in a supply chain with farming, processing and retail operations. The farmer grows newborn items and then delivers them to a processor once the items mature. At the processing plant, the...

Purpose: Risk management has emerged as a critical issue in operating a supply chain effectively in the presence of uncertainties that result from unexpected variations. Assessing and managing supply chain risks are receiving significant attention from practitioners and academics. At present,...

Purpose: This study aims to design a proper supply chain network for the vaccine industry in Iran, which considers several features such as uncertainties in demands and cost, perishability of vaccines, wastages in storage, limited capacity and different priorities for demands....

Purpose: This study aims to deal with a project portfolio selection problem aiming to maximize the net present value of the project portfolio and minimize the resource usage variation between successive time periods. Design/methodology/approach: A bi-objective mixed integer programming model is...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to consider one of the recent and practical extensions of the resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) termed as the multi-skill resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MSRCPSP) for investigation. The objective is the minimization of...

Purpose: Delivering vaccines to the children who need them requires a supply chain that is efficient and effective. In most of the developing countries, however, the unknown and unresolved supply chain issues are causing inefficiencies in distributing vaccines. There is, therefore, a great need...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify and rank different dimensions of strategic orientation and firm’s performance using the approach of interpretive structural modeling. Design/methodology/approach: The study uses interpretative structural modeling and the MICMAC technique to...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how monetary fundamentals affect exchange rate movements. Design/methodology/approach: To develop this paper, a Bayesian Network modeling is applied to explore the causal interactions between monetary fundamentals and exchange rate fluctuations....

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to first explore various third party logistic service provider supply chain enablers. Thereafter the interrelationship amongst the various supply chain enablers has been studied using ISM Methodology. Despite the complex relationships third party...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to holistically study barriers in the path of implementation of retirement planning, as the need is increasing with decrease in mortality. The proper retirement planning can be one of the most important tools to control financial expenses on healthcare and...