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Supply chain coordination under asymmetric information and partial vertical integration
2022
AbstractSupply chain contracting is known to suffer from inefficiency in the presence of asymmetric information. Full vertical integration would eliminate the informational inefficiency but can be strategically undesirable. Yet today’s supply chain partnerships exhibit a certain degree of partial vertical integration via equity ties between the firms. Such governance forms received limited attention in supply chain research. Management literature suggests that partial vertical integration may help the firms to ease contracting problems by aligning their incentives, and thus improve the total surplus. We address this proposition by studying a model of a partially integrated supply chain in w…
Improving on-time delivery at Aker Solutions : a case study of the Spare Parts division
2014
Masteroppgave i industriell økonomi og teknologiledelse IND 590 Universitetet i Agder 2014 The purpose of this thesis is to present possible solutions to how Aker Solutions’ Spare Parts division can improve their on-time delivery. This thesis is a case study that focuses mainly on the supply chain of the Spare Parts division and not the entire organization. Spare Parts’ main task is to provide spare parts to customers. The process of providing the spare parts can involve both internal and external factors. The internal processes include the Procurement division if the items aren’t on stock, and warehouse for picking and packing. The external processes include the suppliers that provide Aker…
Piegādes ķēdes vadības efektivitātes novērtējums mazumtirdzniecības zīmolos: IKEA piemērs
2020
Mazumtirdzniecības nozares uzņēmumiem piegādes ķēdes vadība ir svarīgs aspekts. Tomēr joprojām daudziem no tiem ir grūtības ar efektīvās piegādes ķēdes novērtēšanas sistēmas radīšanu un ieviešanu. Šī darba galvenais mērķis ir izveidot dzīvotspējīgu piegādes ķēdes novērtēšanas sistēmas modeli mazumtirdzniecības uzņēmumiem. Darba gaitā autors ir izpētījis un izanalizējis pieejamu literatūru par piegādes ķēdes pārvaldību un tās novērtēšanas sistēmas efektivitāti, izpētījis esošo piegādes ķēdes novērtēšanas sistēmu IKEA uzņēmumā, kas kalpoja par pētījumu objektu, kā arī veicis intervijas ar nozares ekspertiem piegādes ķēžu pārvaldībā. Rezultātā autoram izdevās identificēt un klasificēt radītāju…
Common and Domain-specific Metamodel Elements for Problem Description in Simulation Problems
2014
It is well known that the multi-agent system paradigm is well suited for modelling and developing simulations of complex systems belonging to several application domains. Simulation study aims at developing simulation models useful for representing, studying and analyzing entities and their behavior in a system according to specific purposes. With our work we are trying to understand what are the right elements to be considered and included in the description of a simulation problem. In order to root our resulting metamodel in the state of the art of multi-agent simulations we started from the study of twelve papers dealing with four different application domains: Crowd Dynamics, Traffic an…
Economic benefits from food recovery at the retail stage: An application to Italian food chains
2013
The food supply chain is affected by losses of products near to their expiry date or damaged by improper transportation or production defects. Such products are usually poorly attractive for the consumer in the target market even if they maintain their nutritional properties. On the other hand undernourished people face every day the problem of fulfilling their nutritional needs usually relying on non-profit organizations. In this field the food recovery enabling economic benefits for donors is nowadays seen as a coherent way to manage food products unsalable in the target market for various causes and thus destined to be discarded and disposed to landfill thus representing only a cost. Des…
Alternative Energy Policy for Mitigating the Asynchrony of the Wind-Power Industry’s Supply Chain in Brazil
2018
High dependency on hydroelectricity has revealed drawbacks in the security of power supplies as a consequence of the climate variability in South America. Under these conditions, Brazil is starting to consider alternative renewable sources for energy production, seeking to avoid periods of scarcity while also promoting clean technologies in its electricity market. Since 2004, wind power has shown a significant rise in terms of installed capacity in this country. Despite increases in wind-power units, Brazil suffers from delays in setting up its transmission infrastructure, which affects the performance of the wind-power supply chain. This chapter presents a simulation model that helps asses…
Life Cycle Assessment in the Wine Sector
2015
Currently, stakeholders’ increasing attention to quality is driving the wine sector to rethink and change its own production processes. Amongst product quality dimensions, the environment is gaining ever-growing attention at various levels of policy-making and business. Given its soundness, the use of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has become widespread in many application contexts. Apart from applications for communication purposes, LCA has also been used in the wine sector to highlight environmental hot spots in supply chains, to compare farming practices and to detect improvement options, inter alia. Case studies whose focus is the wine industry abound in high quality publications. This Cha…
International supply chains in the textile industry : the purchasing perspective
2014
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Developing a framework for designing humanitarian blockchain projects
2021
International audience; Blockchain technology promises to improve the efficiency, transparency, and accountability of humanitarian operations. Yet at the same time, especially the humanitarian context with its characteristic volatility poses unique challenges to any technology. Most prominent are the humanitarian principles that are fundamental to humanitarian operations. These ethical principles are set to protect the most vulnerable populations. Designing blockchain projects in the humanitarian context therefore requires a systematic framework that helps humanitarians make critical choices.While some design instructions can be found for commercial applications, the humanitarian context re…
Improving the logistic process of orders dispatching through a multi-criteria decision-making perspective
2020
International audience; Far from being a mere production-oriented mission, competition among companies has to be considered as a much wider concept, largely based on effective supply chain management. Implementing suitable supply chain strategies is indeed crucial for enterprises seeking to strengthen their own position in the market against their competitors. With this recognition, one of the main issue in the logistic field is the suppliers and orders management, that is a complex decision-making problem depending on a wide set of aspects mutually correlated and often conflicting each other. This is the reason why assuming a Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) perspective is useful to d…