Supply chain design and analysis:

Integrated Strategic Planning of Global Production Networks and Financial Hedging under Uncertain Demands and Exchange Rates

“…Models and methods for strategic production and distribution network design have been available since the early days of the field of operations research, in particular for facility and warehouse location and capacity dimensioning, taking into account a variety of linear and nonlinear cost factors associated with transportation, production and inventory (see, e.g., the reviews of Beamon 1998;Aikens 1985;Vidal and Goetschalckx 1997;Owen and Daskin 1998;Klose and Drexl 2005). Geoffrion and Graves (1974) laid the foundations for many deterministic, network-flow-based strategic network planning models.…”

Diseño de sistemas de medición de desempeño de proveedores: experiencias de un caso de estudio

“…El desafío en la evaluación de proveedores consiste en diseñar un sistema de medición de desempeño que incluya un conjunto de indicadores SPE (Supplier Performance Evaluation) capaces de permitir que los gerentes identifiquen los problemas en los procesos de la empresa que son directa e indirectamente afectados por el desempeño de sus proveedores (BEAMON, 1998;HOEK, 1998;TRACEY;TAN, 2001;CEBI;BAYRAKTAR, 2003). Todavía existe insuficiente literatura académica que aborde las dificultades comúnmente encontradas en la implementación de sistemas de medición de desempeño de proveedores (SMDP) (HARRISON;LEE;NEALE, 2003).…”

Commercialisation of goat production in South Africa

“…A supply chain created through vertical integration can be defined as an integrated process through which a number of firms co-operate in an effort to acquire raw materials, process these materials into another form, and deliver these products to consumers (Bearnon, 1998;Rehber, 1998). The terms vertical coordination, vertical integration and contract production are often used interchangeably (Cramer and Jensen, 1988) to describe the relationships between role-players within a production or supply and marketing chain.…”