Sophie D'Amours

TL;DR: An overview of the different planning problems is presented and the past contributions in the field of forestry are reviewed, with a focus on applications and problem descriptions.

TL;DR: This article explains how efficiently build and manage inter-firms relationships and proposes five coordination mechanisms that contribute to ensure information sharing, the coordination of logistics activities and the share of benefits.

TL;DR: The results show that higher networking flexibility in terms of price–time alternatives can be achieved when firms favor tight partnership relations, offering consequently a better scheduling performance.

TL;DR: Two principles explaining how to use the shared information to reduce the amplification of order variability induced by lead times are described, which are proposed as a cause of the bullwhip effect.

TL;DR: This paper introduces a strategic framework for designing and operating agile manufacturing networks, enabling to collaboratively plan, control and manage day-to-day contingencies in a dynamic environment based on a distributed collaborative vision of manufacturing systems.