Load building is an important step to make the delivery supply chain efficient. This paper presents a family of load makeup algorithms using market control-based strategy, named LoadMarket, in order to build efficient loads where each load consists of a certain number of finished products having destinations. LoadMarket adopts minimum...
The publisher investigates the performance of two commonly-used mechanisms for coordinating the supply chain: the buyback and the revenue-sharing contracts. The simple setting considered is the one with a two-member supply chain in which the retailer faces the newsvendor problem, the supplier has no capacity constraints, and the delivery occurs...
Goat is the most highly consumed meat in the world; and more goat's milk is consumed worldwide than cow's milk. Meat goat production, like any other animal production enterprise, requires that good husbandry practices be followed in the areas of sanitation, health, feed, water, and shelter. This document focuses on...
Techniques based on discrete-event simulation have been widely used for network analysis and policy optimization in the domain of supply chain management. Previous researchers have developed and implemented architectures for simulation-based control for shop floor. A more detailed and high-fidelity simulation model is used for control purposes as opposed to...
Obtaining, implementing, and creating a state-of-the-art, enabling technological environment is a challenge unto itself. Many universities lack the resources to independently acquire truly state-of-the-art tools. Costs of procurement and implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solutions in higher education have been increasing over time - primarily due to the rapid...
This paper utilizes the framework of midterm, multisite supply chain planning under demand uncertainty to safeguard against inventory depletion at the production sites and excessive shortage at the customer. A three-site example supply chain is studied within the proposed framework for providing quantitative guidelines for setting customer satisfaction levels and...
