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Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Supply chain finance and working capital management are important avenues to reduce supply chain costs. Small suppliers may not have sufficient working capital to finance their operations and efficiently supply their customers. We develop a model that capt ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

Improving firm performance through sustainable operations

Mervegül Kirci

As concerns over environmental sustainability rise, corporations must extend their efforts to improve their environmental performance while at the same time realizing economic growth. The endeavor represents challenges on both strategic and operational fro ...

EPFL2017

Trust and Inventory Replenishment Decision Under Continuous Review System

Amin Kaboli

This thesis examines the impact of inventory manager’ trust on their replenishment decision. We conduct this study in the experimental environment and design an experiment with unknown market demand, local information, and under continuous replenishment re ...

EPFL2013

Amazon Web Services- a Case Study

Rammohan Narendula

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a set (more than 25) of proprietary web-based services owned by Amazon.com. All these services ranging from simple storage to sophisticated database services constitute the cloud platform oered by Amazon. An extensive list ...

2012

Managing business dynamics with adaptive supply chain portfolios

Ralf Seifert, Kerstin Langenberg

Practitioners and scholars readily agree that firms need to frequently adapt their supply chain portfolios to respond to today's rapidly evolving business dynamics. Adapting a well established supply chain portfolio, however, may involve high costs and exp ...

2011

Modeling and implementing strategies for supply chain alignment

Kerstin Langenberg

Optimal supply chain design depends on the business context the chain caters for. In this dissertation, we are concerned with attaining and maintaining this alignment between a firm's supply chain portfolio and its business context. Following an introducti ...

EPFL2008

The new political dimension in supply security: The downstream integration of gas producers and their political power

Bastian Wolfgang Schwark

Risks related to the supply security of natural gas within the European Union gained in particular in importance in the context of the recent market liberalization. Prior to market opening the issue of security of supply has been principally covered by the ...

2006

Future space - A new blueprint for business architecture

Jeffrey Huang

Although the Internet is an essential conduit for many business activities, it isn't rendering the physical world any less important, as the failures of many Web merchants demonstrate. People need social and sensual contact. The companies that succeed will ...

2001

A language for information commerce processes

Karl Aberer

Automatizing information commerce requires languages to represent the typical information commerce processes. Existing languages and standards cover either only very specific types of business models or are too general to capture in a concise way the speci ...

2001

A Language for Information Commerce Processes

Karl Aberer

2001