SUPPLYCHAIN MANAGEMENT ‐NEWPERSPECTIVES EditedbySandaRenko Supply Chain Management - New Perspectives Edited by Sanda Renko Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. 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ISBN 978-953-307-633-1 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface XI Part 1 Shifts in Managing Supply Chain 1 Chapter 1 Supply Chain Management from a Systems Science Perspective 3 Isaías Badillo, Ricardo Tejeida, Oswaldo Morales and Mauricio Flores Chapter 2 Supply Chain Management in Industrial Production: A Retrospective View 29 Andrea Stocchetti and Elena Scattola Chapter 3 Supply Chain Configuration Revisited – Challenges and Strategic Roles for Western Manufacturers 45 Brian Vejrum Waehrens, Jens Ove Riis and John Johansen Chapter 4 Prediction Markets – A New Tool for Managing Supply Chains 69 Friedrich Hedtrich, Jens-Peter Loy and Rolf A. E. Müller Chapter 5 Procurement Strategies in Multi-Layered Supply Chains 93 Roland Bardy and Andreas Hillebrand Part 2 The Role of Cooperative Relationships 141 Chapter 6 Collaboration and Exceptions Management in the Supply Chain 143 Esther Álvarez and Fernando Díaz Chapter 7 Strategic Approaches to Domination in Supply Chains 167 Elizabeth Barber Chapter 8 Vertical Collaboration in the Supply Chain 183 Sanda Renko VI Contents Chapter 9 Collaboration in the Design-Manufacturing Chain: A Key to Improve Product Quality 199 Yanmei Zhu, Robert Alard, Jianxin You and Paul Schönsleben Chapter 10 Integrated Logistics in the Supply of Products Originating from Family Farming Organizations 215 Janaina Deane de Abreu Sá Diniz and Adelaide dos Santos Figueiredo Chapter 11 Optimal Supply Chain Formation Using Manufacturers’ Negotiation in the Environment that the Sub-Contracts are Allowable 239 Jae Hyung Cho, Hyun Soo Kim and Hyung Rim Choi Part 3 Optimizing Distribution Operations 255 Chapter 12 Information Gathering and Classification for Collaborative Logistics Decision Making 257 José Ceroni and Rodrigo Alfaro Chapter 13 A Supporting Decision Tool for the Integrated Planning of a Logistic Network 275 Riccardo Manzini, Marco Bortolini, Mauro Gamberi and Matteo Montecchi Chapter 14 Development of a Cost Model for Intermodal Transport in Spain 295 Jesús Muñuzuri, Rafael Grosso, Pablo Cortés and José Guadix Chapter 15 Location Problems for Supply Chain 321 Feng Li, John Peter Fasano and Huachun Tan Chapter 16 Traffic Congestion Effects on Supply Chains: Accounting for Behavioral Elements in Planning and Economic Impact Models 337 Glen Weisbrod and Stephen Fitzroy Part 4 Sustainability Issues Through the Supply Chain 355 Chapter 17 Importance of Reverse Logistics for Retail Acts 357 Gabriela Cecilia Stănciulescu Chapter 18 Addressing Sustainability Issues Through Enhanced Supply-Chain Management 379 Fritz Balkau and Guido Sonnemann Chapter 19 Supply Management Governance Role in Supply Chain Risk Management and Sustainability 401 Reham Eltantawy Contents VII Chapter 20 Reverse Supply Chain Management – Modeling Through System Dynamics 417 Rafael Rodríguez-Fernández, Beatriz Blanco, Adolfo Blanco and Carlos A. Perez-Labajos Chapter 21 Improving the Supply Chain of Non-Timber Forest Products in Ghana 443 Albert Ahenkan and Emmanuel Boon Part 5 Competing Through Information and Technologies 459 Chapter 22 Web Technologies and Supply Chains 461 Alexis Barlow Chapter 23 Agile Information Systems for Mastering Supply Chain Uncertainty 481 C.N. Verdouw, A.J.M. Beulens, T. Verwaart and J. Wolfert Chapter 24 Composite Supply Chain Applications 497 Thomas Gulledge, Scott Hiroshige and Danielle Manning Chapter 25 RFID and Supply Chain Management for Manufacturing Digital Enterprise 517 Gordana Matičević, Mirjana Čičak and Tadija Lovrić Chapter 26 Scientific Data Sharing Virtual Organization Patterns Based on Supply Chain 537 Hui Zhao, Jie Peng and Guoqing Huo Chapter 27 Standards Framework for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems Supply Chain 555 Ricardo Jardim-Goncalves, Carlos Agostinho, João Sarraipa, Amparo Roca de Togores, Maria José Nuñez and Hervé Panetto Chapter 28 Intelligent Value Chain Networks: Business Intelligence and Other ICT Tools and Technologies in Supply/Demand Chains 581 Evelin Vatovec Krmac Part 6 A Quantitative Approach 615 Chapter 29 Supply Chain System Engineering: Framework Transforming Value Chain in Business Domain into Manageable Virtual Enterprise and Participatory Production 617 Timothy P. Tsai Chapter 30 The Research on Stability of Supply Chain under Variable Delay Based on System Dynamics 673 Suling Jia, Lin Wang and Chang Luo VIII Contents Chapter 31 Simulation Study on Dynamic Characteristics of VMI Supply Chain Inventory System Based on Multi-Agent System 695 Wang Jirong, Li Jun and Li Qianying Chapter 32 Improving E-Procurement in Supply Chain Through Web Technologies: The HYDRA Approach 711 Giner Alor-Hernandez, Alberto A. Aguilar-Laserre, Guillermo Cortes-Robles and Cuauhtemoc Sanchez-Ramirez Chapter 33 Districting and Customer Clustering Within Supply Chain Planning: A Review of Modeling and Solution Approaches 737 Pablo A. Miranda, Rosa G. González-Ramírez and Neale R. Smith [...]... date view of supply chain, emphasizing current trends and developments in the area of supply chain management. Thus, some important issues through the supply chain are discussed, such as: the bullwhip effect in a supply chain increasing cooperation and a holistic supply chain to promote environmental awareness collaboration in the supply chain as the key to improving quality the necessity for the implementation of integrated logistics ... chain a critical management area. Since supply chain is the network of organizations that are involved in moving materials, documents and information on their journey from initial suppliers to final customers, it encompasses a number of key flows: physical flow of materials, flows of information, and tangible and intangible resources which enable supply chain members to operate effectively. This book gives an up‐to‐... management, control and optimization of a logistic network, with emphasis on the transport and location problems. Part IV, “Sustainability Issues Through the Supply Chain“ discusses how supply chain management relates to the dynamic situation surrounding sustainable development, and how its practices are affected by the evolving concepts of value‐chains, especially in the developing