Aligning supply chain decisions of separate entities with independent objectives can be
considered to be one of the difficulties of supply chain management. This difficulty becomes …

These days, internet-based electronic marketplaces (EMs) are widely expanded all over the
world. They emerge in different industries, supporting the various exchanges of goods or …

In this research, we study the problem of coordinating corporate social responsibility (CSR),
an extremely important issue of supply chains in practice and academia, in a dyadic supply …

This paper studies a two-echelon reverse supply chain (RSC) involving a remanufacturer
and a collector, in which the collector receives the used products by paying a reward to …

This research paper reviews some important steps in selecting a supplier as well as some
decision-making methods in contemporary procurement which consists of strategically …

Operational planning is an activity carried out by all manufacturing and logistical companies.
Its co-ordination with supply chain partners aims at synchronising resources utilisation in …

Supply chain is complex, it is characterized by many activities scattered across multiple
functions and organizations, and this poses many different challenges for effective supply …

In this paper, we consider multi-party coordination in a supply chain (SC) that consists of a
set of independent producers and a set of resource managers. A decentralised decision …

Coordination between manufacturing organisations plays an important and an essential role
in performance improvement of all members of supply networks. To achieve a coordinated …

Despite the independency of companies in a supply chain as a network of separated
business units which produce altogether the value for final customers, companies are …