The vast majority of the existing papers on supply chain contracts analyse these contracts based on a highly aggregate model description of the supply chain.
First original idea of this study is description of the supply chain as a non-stationary dynamic system along with a linear programming (LP) model.
After a general description of the supply chain and the decisions coming along with the design and management, all selected publications are classified and discussed according to (1) the mathematical optimisation methodology used, (2) the decision level and decision variables addressed and (3) the objective to be optimised.
The model inputs are twofold: firstly, descriptions of the conversion plant and process (mass and energy balance, plant capacity) and secondly, descriptions of the supply chain context (feedstock production, transportation and distribution and associated emission factors).
The model is shown schematically in Figure 2. The inputs are twofold: firstly, descriptions of the conversion plant and process (mass balance, capital cost, plant capacity and learning rate); and secondly, descriptions of the supply-chain context (feedstock prices, ethanol value, finance package).
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This general model considers stock limitations and back orders accumulation providing a better description of the actual supply chain dynamics.
Both of these conditions are core to the present model allowing a detailed spatial description of the parking supply and statistic spatio-temporal description of parking demand, while preserving analytical tractability of the problem.
A realistic description of the power supply system has permitted to carry out the optimization of the proportional-integrative-derivative (PID) controller, both with a voltage and a current loop control scheme.
Consequently, a more detailed description of the feedstock supply is required.
Documents seen by the Guardian show that the belts Asos claims are contaminated do not match the description of the belts supplied by Haq, or any of the 30 products supplied by the firm.
