The automotive industry in North America is experiencing a period of far-reaching reorganization. Part of that change is in the automotive supply chain, including firms in the industry, such as Ford or General Motors, that assemble the vehicles and firms that are their suppliers. The particular...

Working (operating) capital available for use is an important factor in the success of the business firm and the whole supply chain. Effective working capital management helps in balancing usage of capital, not only for the firm, but for the suppliers and the consumers too, that is in the best...

Today manufacturing companies find themselves in an environment of different disturbances. Due to the globalization of markets and comprehensive information technologies, production has to be able to adapt according to changing business strategies. The production controlling provides the...

Il lavoro propone un’analisi dell’innovazione nei canali di marketing focalizzandosi su ciò che va inteso come innovazione per l’intero canale. Vengono seguite tre prospettive di analisi: una prospettiva tecnologica, riferita all’influenza della tecnologia nelle interazioni fra i membri...

With the increase of globalization in trading and online shopping, phony products are on the rise in the market. This article introduces a range of technologies that have been implemented in the supply chain to deter counterfeiters. Technology for both product authentication and tracing and...

The modular revolution has transformed the industrial architecture of the automotive supply chain. Now it is conventional to describe it as a narrow pyramid where only mega-suppliers have access to manufacturers. However, some authors show that SME still manage to reach the summit of a pyramid...

The focus of this paper is to provide an analytical framework which can be used to investigate how financial risks affect the values of interconnected supply chain firms from a network perspective, and how financial risks affect the supply chain firms' profitability as well as the cash and...

Economists express profits as areas representing producer's surplus or consumer's surplus corresponding to a pair of supply and demand functions. A similar representation can be employed in a supply chain network where there can be several producers/suppliers and several consumers/retailers in...

Business Orientation essentially characterises the pervading culture or style of an organisation. There are many types of Business Orientation, such as marketing orientation, production orientation or relationship orientation. The dominant presence of any of these alternative types of Business...

We consider a single-echelon inventory installation under the (s,S,T) periodic review ordering policy. Demand is stationary random and, when unsatisfied, is backordered. Under a standard cost structure, we seek to minimize total average cost in all three policy variables; namely, the reorder...