Determining appropriate inventory control policies and product price are important aspects in the competitive markets of perishable products. Customers' willing to pay for perishable product is declining when approaching ...

Small and Medium Enterprises are often excluded from public procurement contracts due to several factors. We need effective public procurement policies, systems and personnel to ensure that the opportunities are scaled up ...

This paper presents a new robust mathematical model for the multi-product capacitated single allocation hub location problem with maximum covering radius. The objective function of the proposed model minimizes the cost of ...

In a competitive and maintainability context, each company finds to optimize her supply chain in order to maintain her customers by providing the best quality of products in the best delays and with the lost costs. In this ...

In this paper, some set-valued solutions using grey payoffs, namely, the grey core, the grey dominance core and the grey stable sets for cooperative grey games, are introduced and studied. Our main results contained are ...

This paper aims at single-objective optimization of multi-product for three-echelon supply chain architecture consisting of production plants, distribution centers (DCs) and customer zones (CZs). The key design decisions ...

The pull system produces products based on customer demands. Each station is isolated until a customer order is placed; then a signal or Kanban is sent from downstream station to upstream station and continues until the ...