Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

Discrete Dynamics in Supply Chain Management


Publishing date
15 Nov 2013
Status
Published
Submission deadline
28 Jun 2013

Lead Editor

1School of Computer and Information Engineering, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310018, China

2DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, DSB 404, Hamilton, ON, Canada L8S4M4

3Green Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management Institute, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430081, China


Discrete Dynamics in Supply Chain Management

Description

Supply chain management (SCM) is considered as the integration of business activities to serve end customers by establishing a strategic alliance of partners, which has become a means of adding value to products and increasing the company's competitive advantage. However, organizations in the supply chains in real world are always vulnerable to partial or complete disruptions. In fact, various factors, such as natural disasters, labor strikes, power outages, parts shortages, quality-related recalls, transportation interruptions, and machine breakdowns, can lead to performance fluctuations or even disruptions of business processes in organizations, which indicates that supply chain processes are dynamic, discrete, volatile, and unpredictable.

The aim of this special issue is to present the original research and review articles on the latest theoretical and practical achievements that will contribute to the field of discrete and dynamics in supply chain management, in all branches of management science. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Supply chain network design under a dynamic environment including capacity and demand disruptions
  • Dynamic game for supply chain management and mechanism design
  • Stochastic optimization for inventory management, logistics distribution management, and customer relationship management
  • Coordination and synchronization of organizations in supply chains
  • Intelligent algorithms such as evolutionary algorithm, swarm intelligence for discrete/dynamic supply chain management problem

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 309585
  • - Research Article

A Location-Allocation Model for Seaport-Dry Port System Optimization

Xuejun Feng | Yan Zhang | ... | Wei Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 537675
  • - Research Article

An Inventory Controlled Supply Chain Model Based on Improved BP Neural Network

Wei He
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 381987
  • - Research Article

Coordination in the Decentralized Assembly System with Dual Supply Modes

Xu Guan | Mengqi Liu
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 108062
  • - Research Article

Tourist Behavior Pattern Mining Model Based on Context

Dong-sheng Liu | Shu-jiang Fan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 631232
  • - Research Article

Dynamic Pricing and Supply Coordination with Reimbursement Contract under Random Yield and Demand

Guo Li | Lun Ran | ... | Zhaohua Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 758967
  • - Research Article

Research on Self-Organization in Resilient Recovery of Cluster Supply Chains

Liang Geng | Renbin Xiao | Shanshan Xie
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 120256
  • - Research Article

Optimal Acquisition and Inventory Control for a Remanufacturing System

Zhigang Jiang | Shuo Zhu | ... | Yanhong Wang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 917958
  • - Research Article

Two-Level Credit Financing for Noninstantaneous Deterioration Items in a Supply Chain with Downstream Credit-Linked Demand

Yong He | Hongfu Huang
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 427691
  • - Research Article

Location Optimization of Multidistribution Centers Based on Low-Carbon Constraints

Peixin Zhao | Bo Liu | ... | Di Wan
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2013
  • - Article ID 303187
  • - Research Article

Simulation Research of Space-Time Evolution of Emergency Logistics Network Reliability Based on Complex Network Theory

Li Huang | Wei Wang | Minggong Wang
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society
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