In a supply chain organized as a network of autonomous enterprises, the main objective of each partner is to optimize his production and supply policy with respect to his own econ...
Abstract One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as autonomous entities but rather as supply chain...
Areti Manataki, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Michael Rovat...
A simulation-based optimization framework involving simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is presented as a means for optimally specifying parameters of intern...
The problem of production and delivery lot-sizing and scheduling of set of items in a two-echelon supply chain over a finite planning horizon is addressed in this paper. A single ...
Although recent research has shown that the complexity of a network depends on its structural organization, which is linked to the functional constraints the network must satisfy, ...