Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) is central to any developmental initiative meant for capacity building in the eco-communities of India, particularly for those which are located in disaster prone regions. Although being environmentally rich, such class of rural or tribal eco-communities and their...

Decentralized marketing logistics designing, optimization and integration is of paramount significance in emerging economies such as India. The diversity in production systems and demand structures noticeable nearly through all the manufacturing sectors in India necessitates the need of looking...

The Humanitarian Supply Chain (HSC) can prove to become quite instrumental to any developmental initiative for capacity building in the backward eco-communities of India, particularly those which are located in disaster-prone regions. Apart from providing immediate relief assistance at the...

Any sound application of SD-tools in the SME-sector could well be made through SD-Modeling by effectively implementing a properly chalked out research-design. In the given context of SMEs, high-order modeling-product of systems dynamics (SD) depicting process chains of inbound and outbound...

The counterfeit drugs supply chain dynamics follow a counterintuitive pattern. Despite it being targeted by law enforcement policies, it has been going on increasing rampantly. This paper proposes a dynamic hypothesis based on systems approach, questioning the very way in which the supplies of...

Neural networks have the potential of accurately describing the behavior of extremely complex systems such as being encountered in decentralized logistics. Learned feed-forward is a great way to reduce dynamic tracking error of a feedback based decentralized logistics control system in those...

With supply chains evolving into complex networks of diverse and independent economic entities, supply chain coordination has emerged as a key management capability for improving overall performance of the network. For long term sustainability, it is important that such networks remain stable...