This paper is a review of research into the impacts of sharing production information on the
supply chain dynamics. The purpose of the review is to understand the needs to unravel …

This paper offers a review of the development and use of multi-agent modelling techniques
and simulations in the context of manufacturing systems and supply chain management …

Supply chain management is and has been a popular research topic in recent years. Among
the reported studies, coordination is an important ingredient to improve the performance of …

The new economic challenges and recent trends in globalization have made it very difficult
for Canadian forest product companies to improve their financial position without the …

This paper aims to apply a supply-chain modelling and its analysis framework to the supply
chain in the port industry. The simulation approach serves two purposes: to model a supply …

The concept “Internet of Things” launched recently refers to the idea that product information
would be easily available everywhere through a suitable product identifier and the Internet …

Effective business process collaboration between companies operating in a supply chain
can bring about important benefits, but several barriers need to be overcome. One important …

A shipping yard of an automotive assembly plant is one of the key business processes as
well as a starting point of outbound logistics, which holds finished vehicles temporarily until …

To investigate the competitive performance of supply chains in the real world, this paper
presents a multi-agent model of four three-level supply chains that apply different types of …

Facing such issues as demand uncertainty and in-and cross-channel competition, managers
of today's retail chains are keen to find optimal strategies that help their firms to adapt to the …