Supply Chain, Theory and Applications ISBN 978-3-902613-22-6 hard cover, 568 pages Edited by: Vedran Kordic Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria Publication date: February 2008 Price: 80 Euro incl. package & postage |Download the full text of this book|

About the Book Traditionally supply chain management has meant factories, assembly lines, warehouses, transportation vehicles, and time sheets. Modern supply chain management is a highly complex, multidimensional problem set with virtually endless number of variables for optimization. An Internet enabled supply chain may have just-in-time delivery, precise inventory visibility, and up-to-the-minute distribution-tracking capabilities. Technology advances have enabled supply chains to become strategic weapons that can help avoid disasters, lower costs, and make money. From internal enterprise processes to external business transactions with suppliers, transporters, channels and end-users marks the wide range of challenges researchers have to handle. The aim of this book is at revealing and illustrating this diversity in terms of scientific and theoretical fundamentals, prevailing concepts as well as current practical applications.

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Table of Contents

01Supply Chain Collaboration
Ana Meca and Judith Timmer

02Towards a Quantitative Performance Measurement Model in a Buyer-Supplier Relationship Context
Lamia Berrah and Vincent Cliville

03A Framework for Assessing and Managing Large Purchaser Minority Supplier Relationships in Supplier Diversity Initiatives
Nicholas Theodorakopoulos and Monder Ram

04An Evaluation Framework for Supply Chains based on Corporate Culture Compatibility
Khalid Al-Mutawah and Vincent Lee

05How Negotiation Influences the Effective Adoption of the Revenue Sharing Contract: A Multi-Agent Systems Approach
Ilaria Giannoccaro and Pierpaolo Pontrandolfo

06Mean-Variance Analysis of Supply Chain Contracts
Tsan-Ming Choi

07Developing Supply Chain Management System Evaluation Attributes Based on the  Supply Chain Strategy
Chun-Chin Wie and Liang-Tu Chen

08Impact of Hybrid Business Models in the Supply Chain Performance
C. Martinez-Olvera

09Configuring Multi-Stage Global Supply Chains With Uncertain Demand
Guoqing Zhang and Behnaz Saboonchi

10Fuzzy Parameters and their Arithmetic Operations in Supply Chain Systems
Alex Rajan

11Fuzzy Multiple Agent Decision Support Systems for Supply Chain Management
Mohammad Hossein Fazel Zarandi and Mohammad Mehdi Fazel Zarandi

12Align Agile Drivers, Capabilities and Providers to Achieve Agility: a Fuzzy-Logic QFD Approach
Chwei-Shyong Tsai, Chien-Wen Chen and Ching-Torng Lin

13Optimization Of Multi-Tiered Supply Chain Networks With Equilibrium Flows
Suh-Wen Chiou

14Parameterization of MRP for Supply Planning Under Lead Time Uncertainties
A. Dolgui , F. Hnaien , A. Louly and H. Marian

15Design, Management and Control of Logistic Distribution Systems
Riccardo Manzini and Rita Gamberini

16Concurrent Design of Product Modules Structure and Global Supply Chain Configuration
H. A. ElMaraghy and N. Mahmoudi

17Quantitative Models for Centralised Supply Chain Coordination
Mohamad Y. Jaber and Saeed Zolfaghari

18Moving Segmentation Up the Supply-Chain:  Supply Chain Segmentation and Artificial Neural Networks
Sunil Erevelles and Nobuyuki Fukawa

19A Dynamic Resource Allocation on Service Supply Chain
Soo Wook Kim and Kanghwa Choi

20Pricing in Supply Chain under Vendor Managed Inventory
Subramanian Nachiappan and Natarajan Jawahar

21Transshipment Problems in Supply Chain Systems: Review and Extensions
Chuang-Chun Chiou

22The Feasibility Analysis of Available-to-Promise in Supply-Chain System under Fuzzy Environment
Chen-Tung Chen

23Assessing Improvement Opportunities and Risks of Supply Chain Transformation Projects
Alessandro Brun and Maria Caridi

24Modeling of Supply Chain Contextual-Load Model for Instability Analysis
Nordin Saad, Visakan Kadirkamanathan and Stuart Bennett

25New Measures for Supply Chain Vulnerability: Characterizing the Issue of Friction in the Modelling and Practice of Procurement
N.C. Simpson and P.G. Hancock

26Competence Based Taxonomy of Supplier Firms in the Automotive Industry
Krisztina Demeter, Andrea Gelei and Istvan Jenei

27Design of Multi-behavior Agents for Supply Chain Planning: An Application to the Lumber Industry
Pascal Forget, Sophie D'Amours, Jean-Marc Frayret and Jonathan Gaudreault