“Industry 4.0” is recognized as the future of industrial production in which concepts as Smart
Factory and Decentralized Decision Making are fundamental. This paper proposes a novel …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a research outlook on the concept of decentralized
freight intelligence, ie autonomous freight making localized routing decisions. A review of …

Collaborative practices among partners of manufacturing networks require the support of
models (M), guidelines (G) and tools (T) which should take into account the network …

Maturity is defined as a measure to evaluate the capabilities of an organization in regards to
a certain discipline. The Collaborative Planning Process is a very complex process and …

Collaborative networks (CN) consist of autonomous and heterogeneous partners, and each
defines its own objectives and formulates its own strategies, which are selected and …

Machine learning (ML) has the potential to improve various supply chain management
(SCM) tasks, namely demand forecasting, risk management, inventory management …

It is widely believed that the establishment of interoperability of the information systems (IS)
of a firm with those of its collaborators (eg customers, suppliers, and business partners) can …

Nowadays, supply chain (SC) decentralised decision making is the most usual situation in
SC operations planning. In this context, different companies can collaboratively plan to …

A supply chain has a multi-stage complex topological structure that is reconfigured
dynamically and evolves over time. These features represent great challenges to supply …

Uniform product deliveries are required in the ceramic, horticulture and leather sectors
because customers require product homogeneity to use, present or consume them together …