The effective coordination is a key element in the success of many cooperative supply chains. All production, distribution and supply must be adequately synchronized in order to satisfy the customer needs and at the same time optimizing the operational costs. This article presents a...

A time-dependent function, namely the First-Passage-Time Location function, is introduced in the context of the study of first-passage-times. From this function, a strategy is developed in order to solve numerically the Volterra integral equation of the second kind verified by the...