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Collaborative planning in non-hierarchical networks - an intelligent negotiatio...
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, Paulo; Mota, Alzira; Costa, Lino; Castro, HélioIn today’s competing business market, companies are constantly challenged to dynamically adapt to customer expectations by diminishing the time response that goes from the beginning of the business opportunity to the satisfaction of the customer need. Simultaneously, there is increased recognition of the advantages that companies obtain in focusing on their core business and seeking other competencies through p...
Collaborative Planning in Non-Hierarchical Networks—An Intelligent Negotiation-...
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, Paulo; Mota, Alzira; Costa, Lino; Castro, HelioIn today’s competing business market, companies are constantly challenged to dynamically adapt to customer expectations by diminishing the time response that goes from the beginning of the business opportunity to the satisfaction of the customer need. Simultaneously, there is increased recognition of the advantages that companies obtain in focusing on their core business and seeking other competencies through p...
Towards an integrated framework for aerospace supply chain sustainability
Barbosa, Cátia; Falcão e Cunha, Nuno; Malarranha, Carlos; Pinto, Telmo; Carvalho, Ana; Amorim, Pedro; Carvalho, Maria Sameiro; Azevedo, AméricoSupply chains have become one of the most important strategic themes in the aerospace industry in recent years as globalization and deep technological changes have altered the industry at many levels, creating new dynamics and strategies. In this setting, sustainability at the supply chain level is an emerging research topic, whose contributions aim to support businesses into the future. To do so the developmen...
A Lean Set-Based Design Approach for Development of Customizable Products in Co...
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloIn nowadays competing market, companies are constantly challenged to reduce the lead time for new products design process by diminishing the time response that goes from the arise of the market opportunity to the satisfaction of the customer need. Simultaneously, companies and networked organizations face a growing number of product configurations, lower product volumes, a continuously growing appetence for per...
Towards a Customer-Driven Value Chain Framework – A Set-Based Oriented Approach
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloIn today’s business, consumers are challenging manufacturers by increasingly demanding low volumes of innovative, fashionable and inexpensive products; adopting high quality standards; responding in smaller intervals of time, and with high configurability and parameterization. This omnipresent scenario poses challenging opportunities for collaborative networked organizations. The present paper addresses the mai...
Sustainability Assessment Framework for Dynamic Supply Chains
Bastos, João; Almeida, António; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloThe recent past has shown that many companies stressed from the competition, have reduced manufacturing costs as well implemented sustainable practices as much as possible. And yet this effort has proved to be insufficient. This reality is forcing the companies and managers to address the problem of competitiveness and sustainability in a holistic way, by considering the entire supply chain. Due to this pressur...
Dynamic Supply Chains: Models, Organizational Issues and Supporting Technologies
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloIn recent decades, with globalization, the financial crisis and the entry of new players in the global markets, the industrial enterprises in order to survive are forced to update its supply chain strategy in line with the new and challenging circumstances. Thus, company managers have put a growing interest in developing strategies designed to provide companies with the resources, capabilities and ICT technolog...
Dynamic Supply Chains: Models, Organizational Issues and Supporting Technologies
Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloOver the past decades with the increasing globalization, the industrial enterprises were forced to update its supply chain strategy in line with the new and challenging circumstances of globalized and competitive market. Thus, company managers have put a growing interest in developing strategies designed to provide companies with the resources and capabilities in order to compete successfully in the market.
Collaborative business networks evaluation of technological tools for decision ...
Almeida, Ricardo; Azevedo, AméricoNowadays, companies are living great difficulties on managing their business due to constant and unpredictable economic market fluctuations. Recent changes in market trends (such as the constant demand for new products and services, mass customization and the drastic reduction of delivery time) lead companies to adopt strategies of creating partnerships with other companies as a way to respond effectively to su...
Performance and risk assessment framework for sustainable networks
Almeida, António; Piedade Francisco, Robetto; Bastos, João; Azevedo, Américo; Ávila, PauloNowadays, supply chains and specially Collaborative Networks are increasingly aware of sustainability issues and continuously seek to meet current human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but for future generations. In order to achieve this goal, particularly within Collaborative Networks, present decision making related with sustainability policies an...