In this paper, an Internal Model Control (IMC) scheme is incorporated in production inventory control systems in a complete supply chain. This control scheme presents a good target inventory tracking under the perfect knowledge of the system. Furthermore, the inventory tracking and load...

The pricing problem of substitutable products in a fuzzy supply chain is analyzed by using game theory in this paper. There are two substitutable products produced by two competitive manufacturers respectively and then sold by one common retailer to the consumers. Both the manufacturing cost and...

Using a case study approach of Ecuador's supply chain this presentation discusses exports dynamics from major fresh flower exporting countries. The document covers air transportation's importance, air cargo of perishables and fresh-flowers, and a discussion on supply chain's complexity, quality...

Exporting fresh flowers is one of very few successful efforts by producers in low-income countries to compete in international markets of high-value agricultural goods. While this success results from producers' ability to take advantage of their geographic location and access to low labor...

There exists a huge agrifood potential in Ethiopia. However, the country's agrifood supply chains are underdeveloped to deliver quality supply to traders and supplement household livelihoods from the sector. The key factors that determine the proper functioning of supplier-trader chains were not...

Der Anteil einheimischer Ware ist bei Öko-Tafeläpfeln in den letzten Jahren weitgehend unverändert bei etwa 60% geblieben. Damit ist die Situation in diesem Marktsegment deutlich besser als in anderen Bio-Obst- und Gemüsemärkten, in denen von steigenden Importanteilen in Deutschland...

The basic task of the third party logistics consists of providing external company services for a part of the supply chain or for the entire process of the supply chain. Third party logistics works in function and by order of the service recipient who is a physical owner of the goods, that is,...

Eficient consumer response as a process of cooperation between industry and trade focused to faster, better and less costly adjustment of changed wishes and needs of consumers, developed during the 1990s. Firstly introduced by Wal-Mart, it was very soon acquired and implemented by the leading...

By managing risk on the level of the supply chain we gain insight of all potential threats to all organizations involved in the chain as well as to the supply chain itself, especially to the logistics resources: flow of goods, services and information; logistics infrastructure and suprastructure;...

The enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions that gained acceptance in industries world over as they represent a proven, comprehensive, software backbone for achieving excellence in key business areas, have moved forward today to higher levels of innovation and technologies. The management...