This paper proposes that sales and demands information are equally important in the supply chain. It discusses the role of factors in chorological forecasting and puts forth the supply chain collaborative forecasting methods based on factors and presents the relevant empirical studies. In the...

Ports provide a number of logistical choices concerning storage, onward transport, and postponement. We investigate the routing flexibility offered by ports with a central location with respect to the hinterland. This flexibility is investigated using an illustrative case in which a number of...

This paper uses an agent-based real options approach to analyze whether stronger vertical integration reduces investment reluctance in pork production. A competitive model in which firms identify optimal investment strategies by using genetic algorithms is developed. Two production systems are...

L’affermarsi di mercati quali la Cina apre nuove opportunità nel processo di internazionalizzazione. Per le piccole medie imprese il contesto internazionale rappresenta una sfida da affrontare mobilitando e condividendo risorse e conoscenze di altri attori. Ciò è subordinato...

In a study on stochastic inventory systems, Chopra et al. (Decision Sciences 35(1) (2004) 1–24) argue that decreasing lead time is the right lever if they want to cut inventories, not reducing lead time variability. According to Chopra et al., reducing the mean lead time, μ, is more important...

The institutions which support fair trade offer solutions capable of combining the benefits of international trade with socially, economically and environmentally sustainable enterprise. The case of the creation of the supply chain for the harvesting and sale of Brazil nuts and its evolution...

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This paper introduces a novel way to measure the variability of order flows in supply chains, the peakedness. The peakedness can be used to measure the variability assuming the order flow is a general point pro- cess. We show basic properties of the peakedness, and demonstrate its computation...

Can Carbon Labeling Be Development Friendly? Recommendations on How to Improve Emerging Schemes

We analyze trade dynamics following past episodes of financial crises. Using an augmented gravity model and 179 crisis episodes from 1970-2009, we find that there is a sharp decline in a country’s imports in the year following a crisis-19 percent, on average-and this decline is...