Suppliers Of Products Research Articles

Robust and resilient supply chain network design considering risks in food industry: flavour industry in Iran

ABSTRACT Nowadays, shareholders are being encouraged to enhance supply chain risk management in order to deal with several disruptive and operational risks. Producing spice and flavor is one of the high-risk industries as the main raw material is spice and its quality is variable and strongly depends on suppliers, seeds, and climate. Having a constant quality of spices and producing a flavor that satisfies every customer’s demand is intricate. Therefore, these companies encountered a variety of goods which increased complexity and uncertainty in supply, processing time, and demand. To come up with risks and uncertainties, in this paper a robust bi-objective multi-product mathematical model is developed to consider resiliency and uncertainty in a multi-period, multi-item supply chain network design simultaneously. The first objective function maximizes total profits when the second one maximizes the total score of resiliency in which Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Multi-Objective Optimization on the Basis of Ratio Analysis (MOORA) have been used to obtain the four resiliency factors weights for the objective function. We proposed an approach for making coordination between production planning, distribution, supplier selection, and order allocation in a flavor plant. The -constraint method is used to obtain Pareto solutions for a real case in Iran. Finally, sensitivity analysis has been done for tracking the trade-off between optimization and robustness with different robust parameters and investigating unmet demand and benefits of resilience consideration.

АSSESSMENT OF THE PRODUCTIVE AND RESOURCE CAPABILITIES OF COUNTRIES FOR MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL

The spread of multidrug-resistant and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR and XDR) requires the search and implementation of not only new diagnostic methods, but also innovations in the treatment of the disease. Aim. The assessment of current treatment options for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in different countries. Materials and Methods. There was carried out the content analysis of the official sources of 24 countries concerning the drugs that had been registered at these countries and recommended by the World Health Organization for the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and put into circulation from 2000 to 2020: linezolid, bedaquiline, delamanid, clofazimine (as of 07.2020). The data were compared with the characteristics of the epidemiological situation in the country. Results. There was developed a six-digit classification by the following criteria: the presence of international nonproprietary names for drugs; the availability and range of dosage forms; the number of drugs subject to all dosage forms, dosages, pharmaceutical forms and units of packaging; the presence in the domestic market of the original product; the time of registration of drugs in the specified territory; the level of multi-drug resistance of the pathogen in the country per 100,000 population. Among the countries with the highest market coverage with a low (up to 0.5 per 100 thousand) level of multidrug resistance, a large share falls on European countries. As for a number of African States, there may be a threat of spreading the disease taking into account the epidemiological situation for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and with only linezolid registered. The list of countries with a level of the same indicator above 15 per 100,000 population includes Russia and Namibia with radically different market characteristics. If Russia possesses the entire available range of medicines with the number of nomenclature items above 200, then Namibia has no more than 10 linezolid preparations registered only in tablet form. The main supplier of innovative products in the field of tuberculosis control is the Asia-Pacific region. Сonclusion. It is defined that the characteristics of the drug market differ significantly depending on the economic development of states and are determined by the indicator of the disease burden. Success in the tuberculosis control is impossible without the active development of the pharmaceutical industry and the replenishment of the market with innovative products.

The Structural Model of Organization Performance in Small and Medium Enterprises in Thailand Medium Enterprises in Thailand

This research aimed to 1. Study factors of supplier quality management and production quality management that affect organization performance.2. Confirm the structural models that affect organization performance. This study was mixed methods research. The quantitative research consisted of 13 observable variables, which collected data from 260 medium and small companies in Thailand. The qualitative research collected data from a focus group of experts involved in organizational management, quality management, and supplier management of nine experts. The research results were found that 1. The structural model of organization performance in Small and Medium Enterprises in Thailand were consistent and harmonious with empirical data, with consistency values of c2= 94.89, df = 61, c2/ df = 1.56, CFI = 0.98, GFI = 0.95, SRMR = 0.049, RMSEA = 0.046. 2. Factors affecting organization performance are factors of Supplier Quality Management, and Production Quality Management, respectively.

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Consumer Purchasing Behaviour Towards Strategic Innovation Management Practices in Morocco During COVID-19 Health Crisis

The global economy has been affected as a result of the unusual circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak and the restrictive measures taken by governments to contain the crisis. As a result, in order to survive such turmoil, sustain their economic outputs and adapt to change, companies have been invited, and even forced, to innovate. The present study aims at contributing to a better understating of the impacts of strategic innovation management (SIM) practices implemented into a company (i.e., its innovative strategy and culture, product innovation, technological capability, and customer and supplier relationships) on the consumer purchasing behaviour (CPB) in the context of COVID-19 global crisis. Data were gathered from a sample of 57 Moroccan companies operating with international management styles and working according to the standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Then, the structural equation model (SEM) method was employed to test the proposed hypothesis of the theoretical model. The conclusive results revealed that SIM practices have a significant influence on a company’s CPB, essentially via the adoption of an innovative strategy. Therefore, CPB is likely to be upgraded whenever companies seek for improving the implementation of successful SIM practices.

Green reverse supply chain network design considering location-routing-inventory decisions with simultaneous pickup and delivery.

In this work, a bi-objective mixed-integer linear programming model is formulated for the first time to design a green supply chain while considering both forward and reverse flows, location-inventory-routing problem with simultaneous pickup and delivery, scheduling of vehicles, and time window. This model is presented to manage the production and distribution of perishable products and aims to minimize total costs and lost demands simultaneously. To solve the proposed bi-objective model under uncertainty, an approach based on fuzzy theory is developed. The performance of the proposed model and solution approach is evaluated using data from a bread production and distribution industry in Alborz province. The results showed that Hashtgerd center should be set up as the production and separation center and suppliers 1 and 2 (i.e., Seifabad and Mahdasht) should be selected to purchase raw materials when designing this network. The results obtained from the model's implementation in the real world and the sensitivity analysis of coefficients of objective functions indicate the desired efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed model and solution approach.

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The integrated uncapacitated lot sizing and bin packing problem

In the integrated uncapacitated lot sizing and bin packing problem, we have to couple lot sizing decisions of replenishment from single product suppliers with bin packing decisions in the delivery of client orders. A client order is composed of quantities of each product, and the quantities of such an order must be delivered all together no later than a given period. The quantities of an order must all be packed in the same bin, and may be delivered in advance if it is advantageous in terms of costs. We assume a large enough set of homogeneous bins available at each period. The costs involved are setup and inventory holding costs and the cost to use a bin as well. All costs are variable in the planning horizon, and the objective is to minimize the total cost incurred. We propose mixed integer linear programming formulations and a combinatorial relaxation where it is no longer necessary to keep track of the specific bin where each order is packed. An aggregate delivering capacity is computed instead. We also propose heuristics using different strategies to couple the lot sizing and the bin packing subproblems. Computational experiments on instances with different configurations showed that the proposed methods are efficient ways to obtain small optimality gaps in reduced computational times.

ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ РАЗВИТИЯ РОССИЙСКО-ИТАЛЬЯНСКОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО СОТРУДНИЧЕСТВА

The trade restrictions imposed by the European Union in relation to Russia have the most negative impact on the state of the Italian-Russian trade and economic cooperation. In terms of economic indicators, the Italian economy is in recession. Italian exports to Russia fell by more than a third, which negatively affects small and medium-sized businesses, suppliers of high-tech products (gas and oil production equipment for work, in particular, in the Arctic latitudes), military-technical cooperation, which has always been evidence of the traditionally trusting partnership between Russia and Italy.

Live Chat Analysis Using Machine Learning

The World Wide Web such as social networking sites and blog comments forum has huge user comments emotion data from different social events and product brand and arguments in the form of political views. Generate a heap. Reflects the user's mood on the network, the reader, has a huge impact on product suppliers and politicians. The challenge for the credibility of the analysis is the lack of sufficient tag data in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) field. Positive and negative classify content based on user feedback, live chat, whether the user is used as the base for a wide range of tasks related to the text content of a meaningful assessment. Data collection, and function number for all variants. A recurrent neural network is very good text classification. Analyzing unstructured form from social media data, reasonable structure, and analyzes attach great importance to note for this emotion. Emotional rewiring can use natural language processing sentiment analysis to predict. In the method by the Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) of the proposed prediction chat live chat into sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis and in-depth learning technology have been integrated into the solution to this problem, with their deep learning model automatic learning function is active. Using a Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) reputation analysis to solve various problems and language problems of text analysis and visualization product retrospective sentiment classifier cross-depth analysis of the learning model implementation.

Impact of Cooking Preparation on In Vitro Digestion of Eggs Simulating Some Gastrointestinal Alterations in Elders.

This study aimed to in vitro assess the impact of the cooking process of eggs (hard-boiled, poached, and omelet) on nutrients digestibility and vitamins A and D3 bioaccessibility under elderly gastrointestinal (GI) conditions. Three elderly digestion models were mimicked: oral (E1); oral and gastric (E2); and oral, gastric, and intestinal (E3), and a healthy adult model (C). Proteolysis extent reduced after digestion of omelet under the E3 model (p < 0.05) (up to 37% of reduction). Thus, hard-boiled and poached were more recommendable to enhance protein digestibility in elders. Altered GI conditions negatively influence neither the absorbable lipid fraction nor the cholesterol stability. Finally, vitamin A bioaccessibility was not affected but D3 slightly decreased with the elderly (E3). Hence, the digestion of nutrients was dependent on the resulting matrix, poached being the greater supplier of protein and lipid end-digestion products. Poached and omelet, however, offer a high net supply of bioaccessible vitamin D3 for elders.

The role of strategic collaborations and relational capital in enhancing product performance – a moderated-mediated model

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to test the moderated-mediated model using a dataset drawn from 204 manufacturing firms in Australia, and Hayes' PROCESS macro software was used for analyzing the research model.Design/methodology/approachThis study examines how firms can leverage the strategic value of their key supplier for improving their product performance by developing strategic collaborations with the key supplier as a mediating factor. Furthermore, it also seeks to understand the role that commitment plays in strategic relationships by testing how the mediating role of strategic collaboration is moderated by the level of buyer-suppliers relational capital.FindingsThe findings show that strategic collaborations mediate the relationship between the strategic value of key supplier and buyer's product performance, and the mediating effect is moderated by the relational capital between the buyer and the key supplier in such a way that the stronger the relational capital the stronger the indirect effect of strategic value of key supplier on buyer's product performance.Practical implicationsThe findings show that firms could derive significant benefits from the strategic value of their key supplier in improving their product performance. However, the benefits can only be realized if firms can build successful strategic collaborations in the first place. At the same time, this study also demonstrates the importance of relational capital in terms of commitment and trust with the key supplier that influences the effectiveness of strategic collaborations in realizing the outcome of the collaborations.Originality/valueThis study addresses the gap in the literature by disentangling the complex relationship between a key supplier's strategic value and a buyer's product performance and the role that both collaboration and relational capital play in this relationship. By integrating strategic collaborations and relational capital of buyer-supplier relationships, this study not only confirms the links by testing key supplier's strategic value, strategic collaboration and product performance, but also extends the previous studies by incorporating the moderating role of relational capital as a contingent factor.

Accounting and Analytical Support of Public Procurement in the Electronics Industry in the Digitalization

The article deals with the problems of accounting and analytical support of public procurement in the electronics industry; one of the objectives of the study is to substantiate the criteria for assessing suppliers' reputation; evaluations of persons filing procurement complaints; procurement monitoring indicators. In the process of research, the author used such general scientific principles and methods as abstraction, generalization, as well as statistical methods of data processing. As a result, there has been developed a methodology for assessing the suppliers' reputation including three stages. At the first one — participating companies are assessed according to the criteria of size, industry, ownership, organizational and legal form, data transparency for subsequent calculations. At the second stage — the economic viability of the subjects is assessed in terms of the availability of financial, material and human resources, as well as the effectiveness of companies and the dynamics of their growth. At the third stage — the conscientiousness of the participants is assessed according to the criteria of the authorized capital, credit limit, tax burden, the Spark-Risk lists inclusion. The technique has been tested on data from the register of unscrupulous suppliers supplying products for the electronics industry; the data for analysis has been generated on the basis of 1360 companies. Calculations have shown that the overwhelming majority of unscrupulous suppliers are micro-enterprises that do not belong to the production related industries, repair, and in electronics trade; the significant part of them are registered in Moscow and its region. There is found out some companies which are unscrupulous suppliers of electronic products. They do not have sufficient financial, material and human resources and are characterized by low reputation characteristics. The proposed changes in the legislation in the introduction of prequalification terms require an adequate accounting and analytical support that would help to control the admittance of only participants with high reputational characteristics that can and should be allowed in the public procurement system.

Flood Monitoring in Rural Areas of the Pearl River Basin (China) Using Sentinel-1 SAR

Flood hazards result in enormous casualties and huge economic losses every year in the Pearl River Basin (PRB), China. It is, therefore, crucial to monitor floods in PRB for a better understanding of the flooding patterns and characteristics of the PRB. Previous studies, which utilized hydrological data were not successful in identifying flooding patterns in the rural and remote regions in PRB. Such regions are the key supplier of agricultural products and water resources for the entire PRB. Thus, an analysis of the impacts of floods could provide a useful tool to support mitigation strategies. Using 66 Sentinel-1 images, this study employed Otsu’s method to investigate floods and explore flood patterns across the PRB from 2017 to 2020. The results indicated that floods are mainly located in the central West River Basin (WRB), middle reaches of the North River (NR) and middle reaches of the East River (ER). WRB is more prone to flood hazards. In 2017, 94.0% flood-impacted croplands were located in WRB; 95.0% of inundated croplands (~9480 hectares) were also in WRB. The most vulnerable areas to flooding are sections of the Yijiang, Luoqingjiang, Qianjiang, and Xunjiang tributaries and the lower reaches of Liujiang. Our results highlight the severity of flood hazards in a rural region of the PRB and emphasize the need for policy overhaul to enhance flood control in rural regions in the PRB to ensure food safety.

Innovative approaches to organizing examination work of expertise, promoting products and services based on the principles of system management

Innovation is an essential element of the economic development of modern organizations and enterprises. They have a dual impact on the dynamics of economic growth: on the one hand, they open up new opportunities for economic expansion, on the other, they make it impossible to continue this expansion in traditional directions. The state, society, business organizations are consumers of innovative products. This is why, as a research and educational system, many universities, especially National Research Universities, can become suppliers of innovative products based on their research, educational and manufacturing sites. The article considers one of the options for the possible integration of scientific and educational potential into the market of innovative products by organizing the work process of the Center for Expertise and Promotion of Innovative Urban Planning Products on the basis of the principles of system management: customer orientation, leadership, staff interaction, process approach, improvement, fact-based decisions, relationship management. This approach will ensure high productivity and will contribute to customer satisfaction with innovative products. The considered process includes the stages of creating a bank of innovative products and promoting products among potential consumers in the market.

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Bulgarian economy as a producer of intermediate goods for the European Union

Relevance of research topic. In conditions of globalization, the economic development of a country depends a lot on its relations with the rest of the world. When using economic indicators, including the "foreign trade balance" one, their correct interpretation is of particular importance. Formulation of the problem. The research interest should be focused not only on the volume of exports and imports in monetary terms, but also on its structure. It is a question of what production (goods and services) the Bulgarian economy exports (respectively imports), as well as where it exports (from where the Bulgarian economy imports). Setting the task, the purpose of the study. This report aims to present the Bulgarian economy in its role of producer and supplier of intermediate products for the countries of the European Union. Method or methodology for conducting research. The study is based on the use of the input-output model and in particular the symmetric input-output tables provided by the World Input-Output Database. Presentation of the main material (results of work). This report presents the results of the study of volume and structure of exports of the Bulgarian economy as a producer and supplier of intermediate goods, directed to the countries of the European Union. The interactions with the following countries were analyzed: Austria, Belgium, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Romania. Some of the member states of the European Union are not included. The reason for this is the lack of interactions between them and the Bulgarian economy, based on the provision of intermediate products. Conclusions according to the article. The study presents only one aspect of the foreign economic relations that take place between Bulgaria and the European Union. For the most part, the relations between Bulgaria and the other economies in the European Union are based mainly on industries related to the supply of resources. Services and products with a final degree of readiness are provided to a much lesser extent.

ФІНАНСОВА СКЛАДОВА МЕХАНІЗМУ МІЖНАРОДНИХ ВИРОБНИЧИХ МЕРЕЖ ОБОРОННО-ПРОМИСЛОВОГО КОМПЛЕКСУ

The article provides insights into financial and economic aspects of international partnerships in the defense sector. A critical review of operational practices of the largest defense companies provides evidence that subcontractor financing (in particular, in case of multi-phase contract financing or investment capital budgeting) is used only if the main contractor gains an advantage (in situations when high demand products are available only from a small, undercapitalised supplier or when a ‘critical’ product supplier faces certain financial difficulties). The findings demonstrate that working and investment capital raising practices refer more to the specifics of how companies accept payments from their customers rather than focusing on the particular military product they offer. Although the company funding needs including capital size and time investment are directly affected by the product type, the factors that drive the company needs in financing are characterised by contract duration and the specific services or products provided to customers in a package. The study suggests a well-reasoned action plan to be implemented at the government level along with specifying the areas of international cooperation to reduce the negative effects from the final severance of value chains between Ukrainian companies and the CIS defense industry. In particular, the study substantiates the need to liberalize the regulatory framework for transferring of military equipment and dual-use goods; the need to change management practices at state-owned enterprises in terms of timely disposal of inefficient assets along with asset corporatization and privatization; the need to reform the standards and technical regulation framework in the area of defense-related product design and manufacturing; the need to implement tax incentives and mandatory payments for defense industry enterprises which invest in production growth. A special emphasis is put on the role of Ukraine – NATO cooperation to modernise the national defense industry and enhance the integration of Ukrainian businesses into global production networks along with demonstrating the benefits gained from international cooperation, in particular this refers to Ukraine's access to important regulatory documents, including military doctrines, which contributes to facilitating reforms within the Armed Forces of Ukraine; approval of the package of measures which are critical to raising awareness and to support NATO partners in the Black Sea region; and finally, the recognition of Ukraine as an Enhanced Opportunities Partner in June 2020.

Selection of In-Flight Duty-Free Product Suppliers Using a Combination Fuzzy AHP, Fuzzy ARAS, and MSGP Methods

Over a billion people travel by air all over the world every year, and there are many in-flight retailing opportunities for the airline industry. This paper proposes a novel integration fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), fuzzy additive ratio assessment (FARAS), and multisegment goal programming (MSGP) methods to select the best supplier for in-flight duty-free product in airline industry. The advantage of this proposed method is that it allows decision makers (DMs) to set multisegment aspiration vague levels considering both the qualitative and quantitative criteria for supplier selection simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, a simultaneous consideration of qualitative and quantitative criteria for supplier selection of in-flight duty-free product has never been applied under the airline retail industry context. This research will fill into the gaps of supplier selection in in-fight duty-free product for airline industry. The integrated model is illustrated by an example in an airline company in Taiwan.

METHODS OF RISK MINIMIZATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRO-INDUSTRIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In the conditions of modern market relations, the activity of any industrial enterprise is impossible without risks. It is almost impossible to avoid risk in production activities, so the main task is to assess the possible risk and develop measures to prevent it. Agro-industrial production is most affected by factors that lead to risks. Agroindustrial production is the basis of the country's life, and is a producer and supplier of vital products. This article examines the impact of risks on the results of agricultural production, identifies the stages of risk management, as well as various approaches to risk classification, analyzes the main causes and consequences of risks in agricultural enterprises.