A trend in up-to-date developments in supply chain management (SCM) is to make supply chains more agile, flexible, and responsive. In supply chains, different structures (functional, organizational, informational, financial, etc.) are (re)formed. These structures interrelate with each other and...

In this paper, an original approach to formulate and solve a multi-period and multi-commodity distribution (re)planning problem for a multi-stage centralized upstream network with structure dynamics considerations is proposed. First original idea of this study is description of the supply chain...

Ripple Effect in the Supply Chain: Definitions, Frameworks and Future Research Perspectives -- A Multi-portfolio Approach to Integrated Risk-Averse Planning in Supply Chains Under Disruption Risks -- The rippling effect of supply chains as complex adaptive non-linear systems -- Bullwhip Effect...