While auction is typically considered a price-determination mechanism, it could also have a significant impact on supply chain performance. This paper analyzes possible auction and market mechanisms and their expected payoffs in a two-supplier, one-buyer system with asymmetric information, where...

The purpose of this study is to examine the role of two factors: process efficiency as a mediator of investments in manufacturing practices and organizational performance and nation׳s economic status as a moderator between investment in manufacturing practices and process efficiency. A research...

A significant extension of the classic EOQ model is the assumption that realized demand decreases if customers are forced to backorder. To capture the way this decrease depends on the waiting time, different functional forms have been proposed, ranging from the simple (e.g., constant or linear...

This paper highlights the importance of having a cooperative quality investment (CQI) strategy and proposes a simple proportional investment sharing schedule in the outsourcing of a supply chain, which consists of a contract manufacturer (CM, the supplier) and two competitive original equipment...

Simple exponential smoothing is widely used in forecasting economic time series. This is because it is quick to compute and it generally delivers accurate forecasts. On the other hand, its multivariate version has received little attention due to the complications arising with the estimation....

This paper focuses on the interrelationships among the different dimensions of supply chain integration. Specifically, it examines the relationship between employee commitment and supply chain integration dimensions to explain several performance measures, such as flexibility, delivery, quality,...

We study a monopolist manufacturer who makes new products in the first period and makes new and remanufactured products simultaneously in the second period. The manufacturing and remanufacturing activities in the two-period planning horizon are limited by carbon cap and trade mechanism...

Providing customization of products is an important way of attracting customers, but it can increase the complexity of planning and scheduling processes in the order fulfilment system. Thus the question arises, how product variety, manufacturing conditions and managerial practices interact with...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are expected to generate new innovations, as well as future growth and employment for the European economy. In the last two decades a large number of European manufacturing companies have offshored their production operations to low-cost countries...

Unethical behaviors in supply channels have been analyzed extensively in the business ethics literature. However, specifically regarding the medical supply chain literature, analysis of unethical behavior in a buyer–supplier relationship has received limited attention. The importance attached...