In a recent paper, Hoque (2011) developed two single-vendor multi-buyer models with synchronization by transferring the vendor′s lot with equal and/or unequal sized batches. He reported that his proposed models lead to significant cost reductions when compared to the existing related ones in...

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...

Interest in energy efficiency has risen rapidly in the last few years. In particular, Government institutions have launched several initiatives for improving housing energy efficiency through the implementation of retrofitting measures. As a result, the UK Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Services...

Supply chain design and operational decisions may impact the energy needed to keep the products flowing through to the customers. It is a challenge to determine the energy consumption and even more challenging to understand the impact of design and operational decisions on the energy consumption...

The unit loads, e.g., plastic containers or EUR-pallets, used in an assembly plant can have a significant impact on time efficiency, and hence cost, of both the materials supply and the receiving assembly stations. Smaller unit loads can reduce the time the assemblers spend fetching parts....

The article analyses environmental impacts from production and consumption of clothing in Denmark based on 10 business case studies, an ethnographic study of clothing practices among a group of young women, and a statistical analysis of clothing consumption. The environmental strategies and...

The environment complexity in which supply chain members are evolving leads them to adopt opposite strategies in a constructive way. In this sense companies tend to create value by cooperation and, at the same time, capture value by competition. This ago-antagonistic behavior generates a...

In supply chains, which are organizational systems that integrate complex behavioral interactions, partners adopt bipolar strategies that join paradoxical and constructive behaviors to evolve in nowadays environment. This enables them, on one hand, to converge towards common interests through...

La notion de chaîne d‟ingénierie est récente. Revue de la littérature retrace sa construction. Ses analogies avec les concepts de filières et de supply chain son étudiés. Une vision de cette chaîne combinant gouvernance, management, ingénierie et intelligence territoriale au service...

L'alignement des systèmes d'information (SI) avec la stratégie d'affaire ou la structure, que ce soit de l'entreprise ou d'un réseau donné, présente une préoccupation majeure des entreprises soucieuses de leur devenir. Au sein d'une supply chain considérée comme un type de réseau et...