Traditional supply chain practices have primarily focused on dyadic risk management, rarely considering risks in the sub-tier supply network.
A new revenue sharing contract embedding corporate social responsibility (RS-CSR) is proposed for coordinating a two-tier supply chain.
This paper presents an investigation on simulation of interaction between customers and suppliers in a three-tier supply chain system.
On the premise of discrete simulation technology, the study developed a simulation approach to quantify firms' business operations and performances in a multi-tier supply chain.
The development of complex systems involves a multi-tier supply chain, with each organisation allocated a reliability target for their sub-system or component part apportioned from system requirements.
In this paper we consider a five-tier supply chain and assume that the lead time of manufacturers and warehouses can be shortened at an extra crashing cost, which depends on the length of lead time.
In this paper, we study the channel-choice, pricing and ordering/production decisions of the risk-averse supplier and manufacturer in a two-tier supply chain with a B2B spot market.
To ensure high customer service levels, we propose the inclusion of multiple shipping/transportation options and distributed customer demands with fixed lead times into the supply chain distribution framework and formulated an integer-programming model for the five-tier supply chain design problem considered.
We formulate mixed integer non-linear model for a five-tiers supply chain with controllable lead time and multiple transportation options and develop a novel meta-heuristic method that combines the Taguchi's feature with Artificial Immune System (AIS) to solve the proposed model.
The multi-tiered supply chains that are the hallmark of globalization are innately difficult to manage.
The multi-tiered supply chains of practically every electronics manufacturer are extremely difficult to monitor, but the difficulty is directly proportional to the size and extent of that company's involvement.
