... supply chains. This approach is based on sharing resources among actors at the same level in different supply chains. This study provides the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) on sustainable collaborative transportation. The analysis shows that most authors focus on transportation optimization...

... Limited 2023 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only E-retail Return-freight insurance Loss aversion Supply chain In 2020, online retail sales in China reached 9,759 billion yuan, accounting for 24.9% of the total retail sales of consumer goods (National Bureau...

... in the context of the Industry 4.0 supply chain. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a new chance-constrained network data envelopment analysis (DEA) in the presence of non-positive data to estimate innovation, operational and profitability performances for three main relation groups (suppliers...

... network structure in projects developed in global supply chains (GSC). Design/methodology/approach The paper used a case study methodology applied to eight global projects developed by an Austrian company leader in global market intra-logistics solutions and warehouse automation. The cases were...

...Zhuo Dai; Yiju Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to maximize the average profit of the supply chain by calculating the order quantity, the number of shipments during the production time of the vendor, the number of shipments during the supply cycle of the vendor and the time when...

... framework that integrates social media information to improve listed enterprise credit risk prediction in the supply chain. Design/methodology/approach The prediction framework includes four stages. First, social media information is obtained through web crawler technology. Second, text sentiment...

... for a supply chain system subject to advertising immediate and delayed effects. Design/methodology/approach By applying the game theory, the differential game models with delay are constructed for the supply chain to examine the equilibrium advertising efforts, brand goodwill and the optimal profits under...

... chain with deteriorating items and backlogging. Furthermore, the other purpose is to develop an efficient algorithm to obtain the equilibrium solution. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a manufacturer–retailer supply chain of a deteriorating product is considered. The retailer aims...

...Nan Jiang; Erlin Tian; Fattaneh Daneshmand Malayeri; Alireza Balali Purpose A fundamental concept of the smart city is to get the right information at the right place to make city-related decisions easier and quicker. The main goal of supply chain management (SCM) systems is to enhance the supply...

...Habibeh Zeraati; Lila Rajabion; Homa Molavi; Nima Jafari Navimipour Purpose This research specifies the factors impacting on the success of supply chain management (SCM) systems in the organizations. This paper aims to assess the effect of knowledge sharing, the vehicular ad hoc network (VANET...

...Florina Livia Covaci; Pascale Zaraté Purpose This paper aims to overcome some of the limitations of previous works regarding automated supply chain formation (SCF). Hence, it proposes an algorithm for automated SCF using multiple contract parameters. Moreover, it proposes a decision-making...

... The results of this paper indicate that IS executives do not focus on defining goals, which will be used to improve the operations of the supply chain for the IS development. Both IS executives and managers from the logistics department of each organization should participate in the process of information...

... of GA-VIKOR in making decisions regarding integrated production supply chain and transportation scheduling. Research limitations/implications This research aids the manufacturers to minimize their total delivery tardiness and production cost and at the same time maximize their production quality...

...) of the retailers. Design/methodology/approach Due to market uncertainty, a supply chain with a population of risk-averse and risk-neutral retailers was investigated. The wholesale pricing strategy is determined by a manufacturer acting as a leader, while retailers who make order quantity decisions act...

... of this paper is to investigate a principal-agent problem in a virtual product supply chain, in which the retailer’s sales-effort investment level to sell the virtual product is unobservable to the supplier, and the market demand is unknown to both parties. Design/methodology/approach In this study...

...Sifeng Liu; Jeffrey Forrest; Yingie Yangjie; Ke Zhang; Chuanmin Mi; Naiming Xie; Qishan Zhang; Haiyan Wang; Hong Liu Purpose The purpose of this paper is to attempt to realize a distribution network optimization in supply chain using grey systems theory for uncertain information. Design...