The characteristics of today's competitive environment, such as the speed with which products are designed, manufactured, and distributed, and the need for higher responsiveness and lower operational cost, are forcing companies to search for innovative ways to do business. The concept of agile...

This paper considers a two-echelon supply chain model with a single vendor and two buyers in which the vendor supplies the same item to both buyers at a finite production rate. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, mathematical models are developed for the integrated vendor-managed...

Given significant investments in enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, previous studies report unusually high failure rate and major challenges in ERP projects. The activities prior to ERP implementation, referred to as the pre-implementation phase, are very important because they...