Purpose This paper aims to use redundant manipulators to solve the challenge of collision avoidance in construction operations such as welding and painting. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a null-space-based task-priority adjustment approach is developed to avoid collisions. The...

Purpose: Upstream suppliers attempt to outsource product after-sales services to midstream third-party service providers while selling the product directly to downstream sellers, forming a networked supply chain. However, a problem of information asymmetry in the market demand among supply...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of renewable energy on the power supply chain and to study whether the renewable generator or the power grid that purchases power from the power spot market is better when the actual generation of renewable energy is insufficient. The...

Purpose: To promote the development of renewable energy, the Chinese Government adopts the policy of Feed-in Tariff and subsidy. However, the high purchase price and the intermittence limit the development of renewable energy source electricity (RES-E). The purpose of this paper is to discuss...

Purpose – The auto industry in the USA is facing tremendous challenges – plunging demands due to economic downturn, the gloomy trend in technology development, and fierce global competition. This article aims to examine the challenges of supply chain management and to propose a triple‐C...

In today׳s complex global environment, it is very important for a firm to possess backup supply resource when facing unpredictable disruptions from its primary supply resource. To ensure the actual arrival of backup supply in cases of primary supply disruptions, a purchasing firm needs to work...

Setting profit targets and striving to achieve them is fundamental to business survival and success. However, there has been little research on modeling profit-target setting. In this paper, we study analytic target setting under a common business scenario where a firm is in control of multiple...