Advancements in information and communication systems offer immense opportunities for
supply chain intelligence and autonomy establishing stepping stones for Industry 4.0 supply …

Recently, incorporating sustainability into the buyer-supplier sourcing decisions has
achieved a considerable amount of attentions among researchers and industrial enterprises …

The area of e-commerce based supply chains (or e-supply chains) has received significant
attention in the last two decades. Despite the high level of activity, the most recent reviews …

Suppliers' collaboration is a new paradigm to improve the utilization of collective intelligence
in supply networks. Although existing literature advocates the notion of cooperation in …

Purchasing activities consume more than half of manufacturing and trading organizations
sales capitals. Quality procurement is tied with efficient and highly accurate collection of data …

In this work, we propose a hybrid simulation‐based optimization framework to solve the
supply chain management problem. The hybrid approach combines a mathematical …

This paper presents a multi-agent simulation that studies market competition in a multi-stage
negotiation with both direct sales and intermediation, in the presence of cost heterogeneity …

Competition among firms in current global market shifts to competition among networks of
firms and it forces supply networks to negotiate and cooperate with all partners more than …

Suitable suppliers' recommendation forms the basis for a successful procurement process.
An automated personalization of procurement opportunities relies on the buyer and the …

Brazil has specific legislation regarding public procurement. Despite clear legislation,
corruption in the selection of suppliers is often noted. In order to bring more transparency to …