Publications related to Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

Updates on Hydrogen Value Chain: A Strategic Roadmap

A strategic roadmap for noncarbonized fuels is a global priority, and the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is a key focus of the Paris Agreement to mitigate the effects of rising temperatures. In this context, hydrogen is a promising noncarbonized fue ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

A blockchain and IoT-based lightweight framework for enabling information transparency in supply chain finance

Jingjing Chen, Jinzhi Lu

Supply Chain Finance (SCF) refers to the financial service in which banks rely on core enterprises to manage the capital flow and logistics of upstream and downstream enterprises. SCF adopts a self-testing and closed-loop credit model to control funds and ...

KEAI PUBLISHING LTD2022

Network design optimization of waste management systems: the case of plastics

François Maréchal

Failure in appropriately managing complex municipal solid waste systems in general and waste plastics in particular negatively affects public health and environment. A decision-making tool incorporating concepts of logistics and supply chain, considering d ...

Elsevier2021

Control and Characterization of the Compactness of Single-Chain Nanoparticles

Francesco Stellacci, Luciano Andres Abriata, Lixia Wei, Suiyang Liao

Polymers when self-cross-linked into single-chain nanoparticles bear some resemblance to folded proteins; yet proteins have clear energy landscapes that determine precisely folded structures, while single-chain polymer nanoparticles (SCNPs) have more undef ...

American Chemical Society2021

Unsupervised algorithm for disaggregating low-sampling-rate electricity consumption of households

Christophe Ballif, Lionel Benjamin Bloch, Nicolas Würsch, Jordan Holweger, Marina Dorokhova

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) has been extensively researched over the last decade. The objective of NILM is to identify the power consumption of individual appliances and to detect when particular devices are on or off from measuring the power cons ...

2019

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

Equilibrium analysis in multi-echelon supply chain with multi-dimensional utilities of inertial players

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Matthias Gurtner, Gajanan Bhanudas Panchal

In a supply chain, the importance of information elicitation from the supply chain players is vital to design supply chain network. The rationality and self-centredness of these players causes the information asymmetry in the supply chain and thus situatio ...

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd2017

A pilot study on eliciting human operations decision in purchasing and measuring their impact on supply chain efficiency

Rémy Glardon, Souleïman Naciri, Min-Jung Yoo, Yvonne Badulescu

This paper presents a methodology for eliciting the behavioural model of purchasers' decision-making in a supply chain environment. The objective of the work is to explicitly describe the relationship between a human user's behaviour and the resulting perf ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Essays in Bank Financing

Yalda Sigrist

This thesis examines the optimal mode of financing for banks and financial institutions. The first chapter, which is a joint work with Prof. Jean-Charles Rochet, investigates how Systemically Important Financial Institutions (SIFIs) should be financed. The ...

EPFL2017

Supply Chain Management in Process Industries: Empirical Investigations for Commodity Markets

Philipp Urs Moser

Process industries (PI) have thrived in recent decades, but structural changes in the markets are currently putting both growth and profitability at risk. In a period of tumbling prices, supply chain management (SCM) is increasingly viewed as an essential ...

EPFL2016

Supply Chain Disruption Risk Management : Modeling Risk Mitigation Strategies

Florian Christopher Matthias Lücker

It is well established that firms are exposed to the risk of supply chain disruptions. Many firms build risk mitigation strategies in order to increase the resilience of their supply chains. In this dissertation we present three essays that study operation ...

EPFL2016

Dynamic Product Portfolio Management with Life Cycle Considerations

Ralf Seifert, Jean-Sébastien Tancrez, Isik Bicer

We consider a portfolio of products in which each product probabilistically transitions through various life cycle stages. The evolution through these life cycle stages is impacted by both marketing support and product launch decisions, which are bound by ...

2016

Supply chain crime - taxonomy development and empirical validation

Supply chain security (SCS) management has been widely discussed among policy makers, supply chain practitioners and scientists since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. However, the extant academic literature offers only a cursory look on crime p ...

Inderscience Enterprises Ltd2014

The Effect of Coercive Power on Supply Chain Inventory Replenishment Decisions

Rémy Glardon

Supply chains often consist of stakeholders with different power levels collaborating with each other in order to meet customer demand. This im-balance of power along the supply chain is a critical factor that affects its short and long-term behavior, as w ...

Bernard Grabot, Bruno Vallespir, Samuel Gomes, Abdelaziz Bouras, Dinitris Kiritsis2014

On the role of trust types and levels on inventory replenishment decision

Rémy Glardon, Naoufel Cheikhrouhou, Amin Kaboli, Maryam Darvish

Using a participatory simulation platform, this paper investigates the inventory replenishment decisions made under different trust categories. Depending on the type of trust (trust in supplier versus trust in customer) and level of trust (high versus low) ...

2014

Inventory Management with Working Capital Restrictions

Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

Working capital restrictions can have disruptive effects on the coordination of the operations and finances of a company. Working capital restrictions may limit the inventory ordering power, reduce revenues, and increase the use of high premium debt. It ma ...

EPFL2013

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

Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Supply Chain Environmental Strategies

Ralf Seifert, Joana Maria Comas Marti

As environmental awareness grows, firms are expected to expand the scope of their environmental strategies beyond organisational boundaries and to address more comprehensively environmental issues in their supply chains and product life cycles. Drawing on ...

Wiley-Blackwell2013

Collaborative working capital management in supply networks

Daniel Seifert

Supply chain management is widely accepted as a means for companies to gain competitive advantage. While product and information flows have been widely covered in the literature, relatively little attention has been paid to the management of a supply chain ...

EPFL2010

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

2010