Developing a phased approach for strategic distribution center location selection in FMCG Industries

Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) companies face the critical challenge of selecting appropriate locations for their distribution centers to maintain operational efficiency and customer satisfaction. This thesis introduces a structured 5 step of phased method to address the distribution center site selection problem, considering various company...

The Assessment of Big Data Analytics Based Supply Chain Resilience: A comprehensive tool to assess and benchmark the level of supply chain resilience based on big data analytics enablers in the FMCG industry

Big data analytics (BDA) and supply chain resilience are both present and important topics, but research on the relation between the subjects is limited. This also holds for the translation of the subject for a specific industry. This research therefore addresses this relation and translates it to a comprehensive partial resilience assessment...

Vertical Collaboration in a Two-Level Supply Chain: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach

Collaboration in the supply chain is nowadays seen in the scientific community as the “next best thing” in supply chain optimization (Ballot, 2015; Barratt & Oliveira, 2001; Barratt, 2004; Ireland & Bruce, 2000). Although widely investigated and often mentioned in literature, the concept of supply chain collaboration is not precisely defined ...