Browsing by Keywords "Supply chains"
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Auction based scheduling for distributed systems
(2006)Businesses deal with huge databases over a geographically distributed supply network. When this is combined with scheduling and planning needs, it becomes too difficult to handle. Recently, Fast Consumer Goods sector tends ... -
A bilevel uncapacitated location/pricing problem with Hotelling access costs in one-dimensional space
(International Conference on Information Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain, 2016)We formulate a spatial pricing problem as bilevel non-capacitated location: A leader first decides which facilities to open and sets service prices taking competing offers into account; then, customers make individual ... -
A class of joint production and transportation planning problems under different delivery policies
(2013)This paper examines a manufacturer's integrated planning problem for the production and the delivery of a set of orders. The manufacturer in this setting can use two vehicle types for outbound shipments. The first type of ... -
How supply chain coordination affects the environment: a carbon footprint perspective
(Springer, 2017)Environmental responsibility has become an important part of doing business. Government regulations and customers’ increased awareness of environmental issues are pushing supply chain entities to reduce the negative influence ... -
Inventory performance with pooling: evidence from mergers and acquisitions
(Elsevier, 2015)Theoretical studies show that compared to decentralized inventory management, (i) pooling inventories for different demand sources decreases the optimal safety stock, which in turn decreases inventory costs and (ii) the ... -
Organization and functioning of liberalized electricity markets: An overview of the Dutch market
(Elsevier Ltd, 2015)Abstract In this paper, we examine the organization and the functioning of the Dutch electricity market. First we describe the organization of the Dutch electricity supply chain and the role of the main market participants ... -
Purchase order finance: a conceptual model with economic insights
(Now Publishers Inc, 2017)Purchase Order (PO) finance is a form of financial intermediation which can alleviate capital constraints in certain supply chains. PO finance is typically utilized by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that operate ...
